market. find out what's really happening to the. world norwegians guard look at the global financial headlines. the reports. there is a second explosion at the palace for pushing that nuclear power plant already crippled by last week's devastating earthquake and tsunami eleven people have been injured in the blast but the reactors poor reportedly remains intact. japanese officials say some two thousand bodies have been found in the argue the french are following friday's massive earthquake and tsunami the findings will significantly increase the number of dead which currently stands at eight thousand eight hundred. and emergency officials are on high alert in russia as far eastern suffered an injury that close to japan's border and certainly about the bratz of nuclear contamination.

coming to you live from moscow you're watching r t thanks for joining us now we go straight toward developing story japanese officials are reassuring locals that radiation levels at the fukushima daiichi one at power plant are within the legal limits or this this comes after a second explosion at the site which injured eleven people of the reactors are said to be intact at the moment and officials claim another blast is unlikely people within a twenty kilometer radius of the facility have been evacuated to safety but of course all this follows the earthquake triggered tsunami which devastated the country at least twenty two people have already been exposed to radiation and now eighteen hundred people are. confirmed dead

a bit but number is expected to rise and exceed ten thousand prime minister an auto plant has called it the worst crisis since world war two where the government has just announced that large parts of the country will be suffering power outages arius will be divided into groups and each one will have a three hour blackout it's all part of the plan to keep the country's crippled electricity grid operational archy's i've heard bennett is in sendai one of the towns worst affected by the huge wave. we don't know the full extent of the damage and the second blast in the third reactor the fukushima power plant number one the initial reports are that the the actual reactor itself the bessel containing radioactive materials is the damage that's what he's been here to see. explosions also on the walls surrounding the reactor has collapsed for example the damage so we don't know how much radiation is beneath it but it's basically still

is intact which seems to be according to japanese media that 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 in a taxi i was coming back from the coast. immediately afterwards the advice was to stay inside but here in sendai i don't know but i can actually hear anik being shown by people lining up outside markets one key we saw the main street market in the center of town was a kilometer long no exaggeration people have been queuing up overnight to try and knock on thing so people are obviously concerned that potentially the spread of radiation might mean they have to stand behind or another quake could leave the food shortages already there are shortages in town and in hope prefecture. one man we met and told him to comment on food and. right now several of the food

shops are limiting people to try to move back home and they're having huge up hours at a time to get into the shops but obviously there is some level of panic people on showing it. but they're definitely concerned be very much that they're stocking up on food and also fuel our way here yet last night we saw a long queue of cars again a car coming for a long time one of the few cars. specials there were no rights and in effect and any being limited to twenty leeches each petrol. deafness pieces. of the. us with the authorities. troops and police. lining the streets going to the coast beheading people. who can't make their way we were trying to get the film pictures of the devastation caused by the tsunami for

the data given every bit of two hundred meters of space there were police telling divesting i think. and soon as the warning you know me they were. literally shelling out. to the center and. so independent. of people who would come back to find their houses and try and retrieve what they. are calling that first tsunami and it's now find that they will. lose what they have left anyway but i mean she's absolutely complete it's it's you don't get a real feel for it until you actually meet until you actually get to the case those were. the tsunami completely wiped out everything in its path very clear that and came we reached. fifty nine minutes following the quake in

a. credible force we walked down three buildings there were cars floating in what appeared to be an inland sea but he's absolutely devastating and fully understand it and don't fully realize the power that must. we'll be until you actually see these pictures and we saw people sifting through what the remains of what was their house they were. as well and beach. being washed up seven kilometers inland so clearly the damage is. gone through in life and. there are few buildings damaged in the stench of the p.p.p. things functioning pretty much. normal in terms of infrastructure and i could be on the road. and there are predictions that trains are still not out if these are the aftershocks and tension of the tsunami. the most the emergency services

remain on high alert in russia as far east as the region of course to northern japan correspondent look at the you know god's will is there for us right now. i'm sorry she's not there live but here is her report from russia's far east. there margins is ministry for this if i live in region keep saying that he should levels are normal and they haven't intensified their checks after they receive the news of all the explosion as another reactors in fukushima but what is really worrisome is the change in the weather because what we see now is that the weather is changing dramatically it seems that we can now it is it's much better than it was in the early hours of monday but it was snowing out early in the morning there was at the top you could hardly see at some fifty meters from you and it was all sunny on sunday now it is snow everywhere as you can see so it looks like it to go russian

winter in january and these of course is bad news as we had been reporting the full day of the weekend from japan who had been going in the direction of the pacific ocean and a lot indeed on the way and this is very crucial to wait now those weather is will wipe off the northeastern cause of russia or whether it will reach it even case if there is a or is it and you could accidentally get going if there is a radioactive cloud going towards russia of course this only adds to the local residence heinie of imagines his ministers that the levels of radiation now are between some three to four out of microbes per hour which is much less than any other industrial c.z. of russia. the fears are mainly that what looks like kind of light snow today could turn into a sick rain tomorrow the radiation levels here we've been trying to check for

ourselves we have got a good meter here the one we used yesterday to measure radiation levels and as of today it's just the same thing here around the hotel where we're staying from two to three migrants there our this is even less than that in the city center so at the moment indeed there is no reason to panic but the for. health care as everyone is well aware that there is a new credit accident that will take the nuclear cloud or radioactive cloud less than an hour to reach these parts of russia the closest to her because she might and of course not all the people how these congress so they keep well guarded emergencies ministry with phone calls and now there is actually an information screen about the emergences ministry showing the levels of radiation which i have seen as to how. well informed and well updated the locals have been ran seen

differently while the local residents do not seem to pani they leave here and they actually don't have any reason to move to other parts of russia as of now now as far as who is sarkozy's son foreigners mostly we've seen lots of chronic with all knowledge months i'll be also where we're staying is an international chain and that is above it all some dozen people left early morning today with a plane to moscow and they actually received the last of its old news from their management in the city holding on to leave russia within the next forty eight hours they've been more it's already been used closely they told me all the international cable nets words and they've been a massive coverage on all the foreign channels sunlight it is for example here with the local t.v. stations based seems out to take the situation too seriously and it has there is no more reason to stay for something decided to leave as quickly as possible to avoid

any wrists swell themselves. and just to remind you of our breaking news story this hour there are a new threats and warnings coming from japan after a second blast here fukushima nuclear plant eleven people were injured explosion the reactors are said to be intact at the moment officials. there has not been a change in the radiation level since the latest incident took place now having said that at least twenty two people have already been exposed to radiation after an earlier explosion following friday's devastating tremor and the tsunami the earthquake has since been upgraded to a level of nine on the richter scale one of the strongest ever recorded in the world engineers have been using the seawater to try to cool down reactors at the complex damaged in the quake to avert a catastrophic nuclear meltdown well officials say the possibility of another blast is now unlikely or people were going to a twenty kilometer radius of the reactor have been evacuated and earlier there were

warnings of a three metre high tsunami moving toward the north east coast of japan after a strong aftershock but that alert has since been lifted and walk to ten thousand people are missing in the port of minami sanriku alone strong winds are hampering rescue operations and the government is warning people of continued aftershocks in the next few days meanwhile we are also getting reports of a shortage of food water and fuel in the country prime minister not with a plan has called it the country's worst crisis since world war two and russia is sending a team of rescuers to help with relief efforts russia's emergencies minister has vowed to additional help if japan requests it. for more on this let's go to our correspondent peter only for now peter rochelle has been offering help from the beginning of all has already said some people there give us take the idea of the kind of help and the areas of expertise that russia can offer given what's

unfolding in japan right now. stands at the moment a russian emergency ministry plane is being just a bunch to contains fifty rescue workers as well as you want to tarry a just world so we're looking at blankets the clothes food. we talked about. in the country also have diesel generators they'll be able to. see now this is what's termed. the ministry that means that this rescue team can be up and running by soon as possible as soon as it lands on the ground it doesn't need to take away any resources from the japanese authorities that are already stretched to breaking point to the the earthquake. the nuclear situation that they have in the country. also a hell of an emergency ministry. that is awaiting clearance to.

contains a further twenty five rescue workers as well as. the situation with power is incredibly important. percent of all of its energy from nuclear power stations with them being so devastatingly crippled following the earthquake and tsunami their power supplies are incredibly depleted at the moment real shortages of power across the country. rescue efforts. people trying to make sure that the nuclear facilities safe secure so over the weekend rush. aid if you will any g eight two. hundred fifty thousand tons of liquid gas as well as increase the supplies of coal and there is also the possibility of supplying electricity. to cable that links the two countries the russian emergencies minister said they will

provide any support that. they're ready and willing to do that and if the situation continues to develop. we've seen another explosion in fukushima at those nuclear facilities in the northeast of. the. cloud. dacian cloud been emitted into the atmosphere now russia of course has experience in moscow has experience of dealing with these type of nuclear situations of course. the soviet union suffering meet the chernobyl disaster in one nine hundred eighty six moscow learns a lot from that experience and that experience in lessons learned could become in true shill to any help of japan needs in the future we can now hear to alexi out a chef speak his reports from ukraine about the support that russia could give to japan. at painful trip down memory lane alexander often goes to the thirty kilometer chernobyl exclusion zone in ukraine but every visit evokes sad emotions

twenty five years ago what is now the ghost town of what's his home before the chernobyl fallout changed everything. you know i didn't come here just to take photos it still feels like home i spent my best childhood years here i learnt it here. and even those who've never been here before come and feel the car. so they want to come back here. and look sunders one of hundreds of thousands whose address changed after april the twenty sixth one thousand nine hundred eighty six. is one of the youngest districts in the late one nine hundred eighty s. houses sprung up here literally overnight and 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 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 blast. 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 but we brought thirteen hundred buses here from care that 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 the reactor was destroyed a quarter of a sentry since the disaster the thirty kilometer area around the plant is a nuclear wasteland before our period for radioactive particles is believed to last several thousand years so all this land would hardly ever be inhabited again

however some like this alderling 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 me a fly. and in miserable pain not enough to make a living that's why we returned miss here and we grow. besides. many stopping 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 that facility five years ago people of the affected area were less fortunate the reaction of the japanese government suggests that the lessons of chernobyl have kids later been learned. ski r.t. reporting from kiev ukraine. well the earthquake triggered tsunami has also greatly

affected the country's economy with the government injecting a record amount of money into markets to stabilize the financial system let's get more on the economic side effects of this massive disaster from our business desk. where you are this is the first business day since the earthquake and tsunami took place let's talk about a situation right now yes the common we suffer significantly after being hit by one of the biggest or of quakes in its history. which is the ready problematic is now even more uncertain because the dimensions of the disaster remain unclear especially at the damaged nuclear plants according to preliminary estimates the economic losses from the earthquake may. be about three hundred billion dollars and the country's infrastructure is seriously damaged and the nation's industrial clusters in this south and west seem to be the worst affected of the areas affected

by friday's disaster including. tokyo and eight prefectures accounted for about forty percent of the country's g.d.p. local automakers electronics and refiners have shut their. key factor is sent to a nice and honda reported damage to more than a dozen plants and facilities so only also has suspended production at eight plants and japanese automakers have tronics farms and all refineries their share prices drop by double digit percentages. and we can say that also showed on monday over six hundred points or more than six percent and investors expect the earthquake and tsunami to take a toll on the economy and require significant government and also. says that its injection of record one hundred eighty three billion dollars into money markets to stabilize the financial system all ports have also been closed

with warnings of aftershocks to come and moral the crisis at the damaged nuclear plants north talk is threatening to cause an energy squeeze that all sectors of japan's economy oil prices which fell by three percent on friday are likely to continue falling this week japan is one of the world's largest importers the world bipes demand is likely to drop. but definitely the opportunity for those who have more in an hour's time and that of arrival thank you very much for that update on the economic impact of the disaster in japan thank you. well as this information at the fukushima nuclear plant remains critical the threat of radioactive contamination continues to loom and could potentially affect not only japan but a much wider area right from the citizens nuclear information center says the danger of the ongoing crisis is its unpredictability. i think there is

of the amount of radiation that we are where of now it's not a risk there is a potential risk in future because this reactor is unstable you know it could. contain it could be break and large quantities of nuclear material could be released and if prevailing winds are blowing in the wrong direction it could go across asia and the east of russia but. the degree of the really extreme contamination in that scenario would be obviously the big big. reason limited area as in the case of chernobyl but. lower levels of can't compare a nation could spread over a long distance but we don't know that that's going to happen we're praying that it won't but at this point in time you can't rule it out as a possibility this is one concern it's not it's not a case of

a chain reaction in the literal sense it's a case of. the people who are trying to control the situation are going to be strongly radiated by such or if a catastrophe happened in one of their reactors and also that would also affect equipment and particularly provide proof of water for cooling aids like that so there's various scenarios in which one probably one reactor would affect the others which are also unstable in the case of the channel reactors a single reactor which is unstable in this case we have about six reactors that are unstable that are requiring emergency handling and the capacity to deal with that emergency situation in the other reactors is lost in. the possibility that several of them could go we are saying it's going to happen but these are the worst case scenarios and you've got to bear in mind. despite the

a second explosion of a facility crews are still fighting to cool down other overheating fuel rods at the site christopher simons a professor at the tokyo university believes that while the danger remains greater we're not talking about a new chernobyl. 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 but it is a disaster and the chairman of the incident situation is the furor adds can melt they can become oxidized and the rods are protected by zirconium our lawyer coaching and when that comes into contact with water the result is the production of a large amount of hydrogen which is of course explosive and our cause is that of a large explosion as we saw yesterday whether the radiation is coming from the 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 is 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 except in explosions from day two reactor number one building yesterday is relatively light isotopes and these isotopes cannot really cause 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 these are much heavier isotopes and that means that if they get into the human body or if they get into the soil or the water supply they can cause long term radiation poisoning and. that's just sort of my view of our breaking news story this hour there are new threats of warnings coming from japan after a second blast

a nuclear plant this time at the unit number three the one a saturday was at unit one of the best glass eleven people were reportedly injured in the explosion of the reactors are said to be intact at the moment and officials claim that the a radiation levels have not changed since the latest incident took place but having said that later. reports say that up to one hundred sixty people have already been exposed to radiation after the earlier explosion following friday's devastating earthquake and tsunami well the earthquake has since been upgraded to a nine point zero on the richter scale from an eight point nine that's one of the strongest ever recorded in the world but the government is warning people of continued aftershocks in the next few days and meanwhile engineers have been to using seawater to try to cool down reactors at the complex which was damaged in the quake to a birthday catastrophic nuclear meltdown officials say the possibility of another blast is now unlikely however the government did order that people within

a twenty kilometer radius of the reactor to be evacuated to safety up to ten thousand people are missing in the port of minami sanriku alone strong winds are hampering rescue efforts over there and eighteen hundred people are now confirmed dead but that number is expected to rise and exceed at ten thousand the government has just announced that large parts of the country will be suffering power outages and areas will be divided into groups and each one will have a three hour block out of this is all part of the plan to keep the country's crippled electricity grid operational meanwhile we are also getting reports of a shortage of food water and fuel and a prime minister not to call it has called it the country's worst crisis since world war two the help has been coming to japan and russia is sending a team of rescuers to help with relief efforts russia's emergencies minister has vowed to send additional help if japan it requests it. will be

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