since second explosion of japan's fukushima nuclear power plant already crippled by last week's devastating earthquake and the tsunami eleven people have been injured in the blast but the reactors core reportedly remains intact. japanese officials say some two thousand bodies have been found in the miyagi district following friday's massive earthquake and tsunami the findings will significantly increase the number of dead which currently stands at eighteen hundred. and emergency officials are on high alert in russia's foreign eastern southern region that's close to japan's border concerned about the threat of nuclear contamination.

coming to you live from our studios in moscow you're watching r t thanks for joining us now to our developing story japanese officials are reassuring locals that radiation levels be a focal sheen one number one power plant are within the legal limits lock to one hundred sixty people could have been exposed to radiation following two explosions up the facility in northeastern or japan along monday morning a second explosion there injured eleven people within a twenty kilometer radius of the site had been evacuated to safety the reactors are said to be intact at the moment and officials claim another blast is now unlikely all this was triggered by friday's massive earthquake which was then followed by a giant tsunami one thousand eight hundred people are now confirmed dead but that

number is expected to rise by many times but we're not getting reports that two thousand. bodies have been washed up in the miyagi prefecture alone another thousand were found in the town of minami sanriku but the government there claims that up to ten thousand people are missing which is more than half the local population prime minister has called it the worst crisis since world war two and now the government has announced that large parts of the country will have to suffer a power outage this area's 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 artie's ivor bennett is in sendai one of the tiles worst affected by the huge wave. we don't know the full extent of the damage a second blast in the third reactor the fukushima number one the initial reports are that the the actual reactor three itself the bessel containing the radioactive materials isn't damaged that's what he's. supposed to also.

surrounding the reactor has collapsed. and the damaged we don't know how much radiation is. either but it's basically still is intact which he 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. in the taxi i was coming back from the coast. immediately afterwards the advice was to stay inside here in sendai i don't know but i can actually hear this haneke being shown by people lining up for markets one queue we saw at the main market in the center of town with a kilometer long no exaggeration people being queuing up overnight to try and stock up on things so people are obviously concerned that potentially could spread radiation might mean half of them find or not the earthquake could leave food

shortages already there are shortage in town and in whole prefecture in fact one man when we met him he commented on food and. right now several of the food shops are limiting people but i can back them and i think you are now it's time to get into the so. there is some level of panic people on showing it. but they're definitely concerned be very much that they're knocking out on food and also fuel our way here yet last night we saw a long queue of car again about kilometer long outside one of the few pick. stations that were there were in the machine picture and being limited to twenty liters each if petrol. definite pieces. of the. the authorities. troops and police took

a police even as well lining the streets going to the coast they're heading people . can't make their way we were trying to get still more inches on the. course was an army three day to go and every thought of two hundred metres or so they are police telling diverting asking us to go back and soon as they heard the warnings tsunami they were. literally shouting at chasing us to the center and. police started taking our independence. and other people who would come back to find their houses and try and retrieve what they could. going out for tsunami only now find that they were. loose what they have left anyway the damage of some silly complete i mean it's you don't get a real feel for it until you actually see it until you actually get to the case but

it's worth it in areas. the tsunami completely wiped out everything in its path are very clear that he came in reached a clump because he didn't just in nine minutes fall in the craig he must have been absolutely incredible for spears we wiped out three buildings because floating in what appeared to be an inland sea it's absolutely devastating you didn't fully understand it and don't fully realise the power that must. we'll be until you actually see these pictures and we saw people sifting through what remains of what was they were. as well and beach. been washed up seven kilometers inland so clearly the damage is. inland. there are a few buildings damaged in the stench of the c.p.p. things functioning pretty much. normal in. infrastructure and i can

see on the road. predictions the trains are still not. out of fears of aftershocks and attention of the tsunami. and russian sea services remain on high alert in russia's far east that's a region close to northern japan our correspondent nick i think is there for us. but imagine says ministry for this appalling region it's saying that radiation levels are normal and they haven't intensified their checks after they received the news about the explosion as another reactor 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 seems that we can see now it is it's much better than it was in the early hours of monday but it was snowing how 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 too cold russian winter in january and these of course is bad news as we had been reporting be fooled of the weekend from japan had been going in the direction of the pacific ocean and a lot indeed depends on the wind this is very crucial to wait now those waters will wipe off the northeastern part of russia or whether it will reach it even case if there is a or is it a nuclear accident and then if there is a radioactive cloud go into words russia of course only adds to the local residents tiny the margin says ministers that the levels of radiation now are between some three to four of the microbes brauer which is much less than any other industrial city of russia but the fears are mainly that what looks like a light snow today could turn into

a seed rain tomorrow the radiation levels here we've been trying to check for ourselves we have got a good leader here the one we used yesterday so much already levels and as of today it's just the same figure here around the hotel where we're staying from two to three my crisper our this is of unless they're not in the city center so at the moment indeed there is no reason to panic but process the. health care as everyone is well aware that there is a new car accident that will take a nuclear cloud or a radioactive cloud less than an hour to reach these parts of russia the closest to . and of course not older people have these congress so they keep well guarding the emergences ministry with phone calls and now there is actually an information screen about the emergences ministry showing the levels of radiation we have seen as to how the public secured the well informed and well updated the locals have

been really have 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 any other possible russia as of now now as far as let to raise our concern for and as mostly we've seen lots of panic with that all management's all the hotel where we're staying is an international chain and that is about i got 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 calling on to leave russia within the next forty eight hours they've been monitoring the news closely they told me on all the international cable not words and they've been a massive coverage on all the foreign channels on like it is for example here with the local t.v. stations bays seem to have taken the situation too seriously and as there is no

more reason to stay for something decided to leave as quickly as possible to avoid any risks for themselves. well just to remind you of our breaking news story this hour the aftermath since a second explosion at the fukushima nuclear plant in japan eleven people were injured in the explosion the reactors though are said to be intact at the moment and officials claim that there has not been a change in the radiation levels since the latest incident took place having so that it latest reports say that up to one hundred sixty people have already been exposed to radiation after the initial explosion following a friday's devastating earthquake and tsunami with the earthquake has since been upgraded to a nine point zero level on the richter scale that's one of the strongest ever recorded in the world and the government is warning people of continued aftershocks in the next few days well officials do say that the possibility of another blast is now unlikely however people within

a twenty kilometer radius of the reactor have been evacuated to safety of the death toll from the entire disaster is expected to exceed ten thousand people prime minister and not a car has called it the country's worst crisis since world war two. well russia is sending aid and rescuers to japan to help with the aftermath of friday's earthquake and tsunami as well as to prepare for a potential new disaster well now for more on moscow's involvement let's go to peter all of her hi there peter just give us an idea of the kind of help and areas of expertise that russia can offer japan at this point. well a plane come from the russian ministry of emergencies has already landed in japan in tokyo and that contains fifty rescue workers who will be heading to where they're needed most as soon as they possibly can it also contains humanitarian supplies we're looking at things like tents blankets food and water for those

people who are most people who have lost just about everything in these this earthquake and tsunami now there's also a helicopter that will be heading to japan has been given the go ahead to be given the green light to enter japanese airspace this helicopter based out of the battles in the russian far east is heading to the areas worst affected by these natural disasters this helicopter contains more supplies more humanitarian aid as well as a further twenty five rescue workers now the. the big one of the other things that's being handed out which is being sent by russia to japan is diesel generators they've been sent out on that helmet airplane ices arrived in japan power is a major problem for the japanese at the moment thirty percent of japan's energy comes from nuclear power now that is the situation with the post asian if as well as other ones around the country to be watched very very closely their power output

is extremely limited and energy is needed for the rescue efforts and also for those people who are trying to to make sure that it won't be any further developments in the situation at fukushima now russia has pledged energy aid to chip to japan in order to help sending one hundred fifty thousand tons of liquid gas as well as increasing coal supplies and supplying electricity directly to the country through an underwater cable now we're also hearing that the ministry of emergencies as well as russia's atomic agency watchdog atomic energy watchdogs have started training in case of the worst possible scenario in case of a. full scale meltdown and fukushima or at any other nuclear plants in japan they are training for any eventual outcome of that be whether they are required to go to the scene in order to aid the japanese rescue workers and people trying to hold any catastrophe that could happen there or to help russians caught russia's far east

which as we've heard so close to japan would be if there was some kind of radiation cloud to be emitted into the atmosphere it would be an extreme risk to russia's far east so everybody on extremely high alert moscow has experience in the past of dealing with severe radioactive catastrophes the chernobyl incident in one thousand nine hundred eighty six of course the the worst among kinds history the lessons learned from the experience gained from the chernobyl disaster could be crucial to help japan should the situation at fukushima deteriorate more now from ukraine brings this report but just what russia could bring to the table. a painful trip down memory lane alexander often goes to the thirty kilometer nature novel exclusion zone in ukraine but every visit evokes sound emotions twenty five years ago what is now the ghost town of 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 chance of years here along to tier. and even those who have never been here before come and feel the current. so they want to come back here. alexander is one of hundreds of thousands whose address changed after april the twenty sixth and nine hundred eighty six the creation 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 blood and 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 that sounds former deputy mayor says this dreadful

mistake was caused by a mass confusion which follow good last. for those who ask 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 here that we had to inform people bring them together and in the first place we had to understand whether we actually needed the evacuation or even specialists in the first stages didn't know whether the reactor was destroyed a quarter of a century since the disaster the thirty kilometer area around the plant is a nuclear wasteland the fall are 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 to here they

gave me a flat. and a miserable pension not enough to make a normal living that's why we returned home is here and we grow. besides nowadays more people come to the zone cars passed by all the time when he stopped wearing some food and 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 let's see russia ski r.t. reporting from kiev ukraine. let me just bring you up to date on the latest we're getting from japan we're getting reports of there is a risk of overheating and another explosion at a third reactor at the fukushima plant there are six units there we've had an explosion on saturday on unit number one today there are reports of an explosion on

a second one and now reports coming in that there's risk of overheating on the third unit there where the earthquake and tsunami has also gravely effect of the country's economy where the government injecting a record amount of money into markets to stabilize the financial system let's get more on the impact economically from this massive disaster for our business hi there your view on how this is the first business day monday in japan since the earthquake and the tsunami took place how bad is the situation right now well the country's economy is already very full the economic outlook is even more uncertain now because the dimensions. of the disaster really clear especially at the damage nuclear plants but what we can see if certain is that japan is set to suffer significant losses according to preliminary estimates the chronic losses from the earthquake may be up to three hundred billion dollars the country's infrastructure is seriously damaged and the nation's industrial clusters in the south and west

seem to be worst affected well the areas affected by the disaster cancel forty percent of the country's g.d.p. and local. forums and oil refineries have shut key factors and saw their share prices drop by double digit percentages toyota nissan honda accord. to more than a dozen plants and facilities and sony has suspended production at eight plants and showed over six hundred points a little than six percent of monday's investors expected the earthquake to take a toll on the economy and definitely requires significant government during and japan's central bank says it is injecting injection a record one hundred eighty three billion dollars into the. money market has destabilized the financial system all ports have been closed warnings of aftershocks to come and more when the crisis a nuclear plant is threatening to cause and issues for.

all sectors of the country's economy while prices which already fell by three percent on friday are likely to continue following this we're going to punish one of the world's largest importers with oil the demand is likely to drop as activity falters we'll have more on the. thank you very much for that update on the economic impact of the disaster thank you well now despite the a second explosion at the fukushima facility crews are still fighting to cool down other overheating fuel rods at the site christopher simons a professor at a tokyo university believes that while the danger remains great we're not talking about a neutron knowable. 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 this situation is a few rods can melt they can become oxidized and the rods are protected by

as zucconi an hour lloyd 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 there a large explosion as we saw whether the radiation is coming from fukushima daiichi reactor number one or number three or more locally is a very important question to sort of i would hazard a guess that it's coming from fukushima daichi number one now there are different types of radiation being released into the atmosphere the good news is that a lot of the steam which takes in the explosion from eighty reactor number one building 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 well as the situation might be a focusing on nuclear plant remains critical the threat of radioactive contamination continues to room and could potentially affect not only japan but i'd much rather area apparent right from the citizens of nuclear and from the center says the danger of the ongoing crisis as it's unpredictability. i think. 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 it could. contain it could be great just 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. the degree of the really

extreme cold contamination in that scenario would be obviously the. millionaire rate recently limited area as in the case of chernobyl but. low levels of can't confirm a nation could spread over a long distance but we don't know that it's going to happen we're praying that it worked 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 but it's a case of. the people who are trying to control the situation are going to be strongly irradiated. if a catastrophe happened in one of their reactors and also that would also affect equipment and particularly provide proof of water for cooling things like that so there's various scenarios in which 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 and they're requiring emergency handling and if 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 gary mind. and just to remind you of our breaking news story this hour there are new threats and warnings coming from japan with reports of a possible third explosion on the way you have fukushima nuclear plants this follows monday's second explosion there which injured eleven people after one hundred sixty people have reportedly been exposed to radiation since explosions began after friday's devastating earthquake and tsunami meanwhile engineers have been using

a seawater to try to cool down reactors at the complex which was that bridge and the quake to avert a catastrophic a nuclear meltdown and again the latest we're hearing is that a third reactor has lost its cooling capacity increasing fears that it will overheat and cost another blast of already been to so far now the government has ordered people within a twenty kilometer radius of the plant and be evacuated to safety now since the double hit eighteen hundred people have been confirmed dead but that number is expected to rise by veni times two thousand bodies have been washed up in the we are the district alone it was the worst hit by the a synonyme know another thousand were found in the town of minami sundry crew but the government there claims that up to ten thousand people are missing which is more than half the local population and locals are also expecting power out of just areas 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 and there are also reports of a shortage of food while tour and if you will prime minister and multiply and has called it the country's worst crisis since world war two and help was already have been arriving in japan from different countries russia is sending a team of rescuers to help with the relief efforts russia's emergencies a minister has vowed to send additional help if japan requests it. we will keep you updated on the latest from japan during the day do stay with us on our team. qatar is the same us i can tell but i do know larry wilmore so little. interest to

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