fifty. five. braces itself for a new explosion after a third reactor loses its cooling capacity at the profumo that you see a nuclear power plant eleven people were injured on monday morning in the second blast that killed thirty five cents a far these devastating earthquake and tsunami. japanese officials say some two thousand bodies have been found in the media you prefecture following friday's a 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 far eastern solly and region close to japan's border

concerns about the threat of nuclear contamination. you're watching are coming to you live from moscow welcome to the program now 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 know the fukushima daiichi nuclear plant well this follows a monday's second blast there which injured eleven people japanese officials have been reassuring locals that radiation levels up the plant are within legal limits but up to one hundred sixty people could have been exposed to radiation falling to two explosions at the facility in northeastern japan well meanwhile engineers have been using it seawater to try to cool down reactors at the complex damaged in the

earthquake to avert a catastrophic nuclear meltdown again we are now hearing reports of the third that reactor has lost its cooling capacity increasing fears that it will overheat and cause another blast well the government has ordered that people within a twenty kilometer radius. of the sites to be evacuated to safety but all of this was triggered by friday's earthquake which was then followed by a giant tsunami of the latest eighteen hundred people are confirmed dead but that number is expected to rise by many times prime minister noda khan has called it the worst crisis since world war two all artes are over but it's is in sendai one of the worst affected by the huge wave now i've heard you're not far from be a fukushima daiichi nuclear plants will be very late as we're hearing is that a third of reactor is in danger of overheating there's been a second explosion what's happening there right now just tell us. well the latest

is just another reacts and before she might pluck up on number one reactor is now in danger of overheating it's lost its cooling mechanism which is crucial to stopping nuclear meltdown and what this means it could lead to overheating and another explosion similar to the two of the past we've already seen that one could happen now what they're doing to try and prevent that by pouring on sea water into the reactors trying to pull it down and that's what they did for the other two plants unfortunately that didn't prevent any explosion when the explosion a did happen earlier today at that second reactor the fear was the actual vessel the nuclear reactor itself that exploded thankfully not so a sigh of relief here because if that had been the case and radiation would have been pouring out it was the explosion was due to a buildup of hydrogen in the fuel rods and so the actual according to the

government the nuclear reactor that holds the radioactive material is still intact which is crucial to preventing a major nuclear catastrophe. eleven people were injured in that explosion and we do now know that radiation is already leaking out. from the from the result of the first explosion which happened two days ago. since the second explosion we know radiation has been increased in the area in fact the fish of the plant the tokyo electric power company who own a plant based say that the radiation levels haven't increased and call it anything they've actually dropped there within the legal limits. however twenty two people already have been exposed to radiation and it is still a concern in that i meet you the energy around that plant and two hundred thousand people have been evacuated from that area six hundred. still remain they weren't

evacuated in time so they've been told to stray into what was and we do know that radiation according to the report in new york times has reached a u.s. aircraft carrier hundred fifty kilometers off the japanese coast in the pacific ocean so radiation is already spreading out and they mentioned radiation levels that people would in one day they suffered what they would if they were told what they would have normally absorbed in one month the radiation is art in general since the hundreds marched one hundred sixty times of the way from the blast area ok well what about the your mood of the people you know there's already been a shortage of food or water fuel and now there's the latest news of more threat coming from the power plant is there any panic on the street at this point. although the government is playing down afraid of a major nuclear meltdown here and radiation levels are dropping there seems to be from distrust actually in the actual information we're receiving here on the ground

among the foreigners here that i spoke the japanese people i spoke to two journalists early this afternoon who on their way out today from fukushima they met a group of foreign teachers australian and american teachers here they were heading to the airport straight away because they don't believe that the information actually received from the government is correct they fear that the radiation is spreading a lot. further and faster and more often than being told also on the streets here in and i people are panicking in the sense that chewing up and trying to cope by very few shops are actually selling produce anymore there's a shortage of food and water so there's very little electricity in the town and power cuts are widespread across the whole town it's very little heating so. going through town driving through the streets you see several. long long queues one

actually about a kilometer long about the main supermarket on queuing up to buy what they can as they prepare for what could be a long stint indoors well i for people that hard trying to evacuate there probably as you were reporting earlier they are in shelters they are sleeping on cardboard boxes but and then you mentioned that the foreigners are leaving the country is are there any options for locals themselves to maybe move further south in the country transportation networks what are their options is staying an evacuation center is their only option can't they get further away from the site. for the radiation and . we've got. the other option only option really. to another played a part of the country that's not really a viable option considering the transport down completely. still aren't functioning so we actually saw one bullet train completely straight face in the middle of the

track in between. the day and. there are very few taxi there around the ones that are charging a very expensive thank people but what's other than what's keeping people here you know really fences. earthquake we've heard that it's a very it's a seventy percent chance of a very high probability of a major aftershock hitting this area back at you seven is expected within the next three to seven days and so people are staying here because they want to stay in secure buildings it's really since it's been stepped up in government buildings that it's the safely design and strong earthquakes and. people want to stay here until they know it's safe to go back to their targets because although for the people here in sendai they do not have to put most of them anyway but what they're seeing in. you don't see that are not secure enough and they are not built in the.

strong structures and so they're waiting for the all clear back to their homes and some people think weeks if not months from the people they told me they expect they're here for at least six weeks cliver you know we've been looking at a lot of pictures of the devastation in that area and the you yourself are there can you tell us just give us the scale of the devastation and give us an update on the your rescue operations in that region i believe that a lot of people are still missing how is that coming along given the new threats of an earthquake and a tsunami. here in the center of the city there's not much. destruction if you have to go to the coast which we did earlier today it's not very far anyway kilometers from the. it's been a big go up there into the area the tsunami hit which is around seven kilometers away from the coast was the absolute destruction you don't really realize it until

you actually get just how devastating it was the tsunami completely wiped out everything in its path there was still a lot of water covering the whole area look like fargo i could see it right there it was just water and. well being on the water to work because it would destroy the think has been picked up and talked and taken along which is away from where they were under their trees fallen down how that completely destroyed we foresaw some people going back to try and retrieve what is left of their homes but when we got very early. it was a bit of a scary moment when there was suddenly lots of something a lot of. activity amongst the army troops and the police suddenly waving all these orange buttons and shouting tsunami tsunami and that's when we you know it was a really neat trick obviously you know i mean they were so what we had to do was just get up in a car and drive as fast as we could ok i don't either i'm sorry i will have to

interrupt you that's all we've got time for for now thank you very much for that update artie's ivor bennett in sendai. well the emergency services remain on high alert in russia's far eastern region close to northern japan our correspondent kathleen aggression is there for us. the imagines his ministry for the surprise region keeps saying that radiation levels are normal and they have an intensified their checks after they receive the news about the explosion as another reactor in focal shima but what is really worrisome is the change in the weather because what we see now is that the weather is changing dramatically in scenes 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 early in the morning there was at the top you could hardly see it 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 the full day 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 goes whether it will bypass the northeastern parts of russia or whether it will reach an even case if there is a or is it a nuclear accident and if there if there is a ready actually clouds go into words russia of course this only adds to local residents heinie the margins his ministers that the levels of radiation now are between some three to four of microbes per hour 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 said rain tomorrow the radiation levels here we've been trying to check for

ourselves we have a guide of either here or the one we used yesterday to measure radiation levels and as of today it's just the same bigger here around the hotel where we're staying from two to three migrants are our this is of unless they are not in the city center so at the moment indeed there is no reason to panic but the. my stance of course everyone is well aware that there is a nuclear accident and that he will take a new clinical other brainiacs a cloud less than an hour to reach these parts of russia the closest to her because she might and of course not older people have these congress so they keep well guarding the emergences ministry with phone calls and now there's actually an information us green about the emergences ministry showing the levels of radiation which perhaps is too hot the public to keep the 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 two wrists are concerned foreign as mostly we've seen lots of chronic with all management of the hotel where we're staying is an international chain and that is about about some dozen people left early morning today with a plane to moscow and they actually received the last of its old me from the management in the city holding on to leave russia within the next forty eight hours they've been monitoring the news closely they told me all the international cable nat's 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 base seems 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 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 for more and more schools involved in let's cross live to our peter all over hi there peter just give us an idea of the kind of help and the areas of expertise of that russia is able to offer to japan at this point. russian emergencies ministry plane has arrived in japan already know that contains fifty rescuers and aid workers as well as humanitarian aid now looking at things like shelter tents blankets food water we've heard already in the program there in very short supply in japan these aid is now getting into the country from russia there's also a helicopter from the emergencies ministry which is being given the green light to enter japanese airspace that's expected to go to the areas worst hit directly in.

by the earthquake and tsunami that contains another twenty five aid workers and more supplies and humanitarian aid for the people on the ground there over the weekend russia already pledged. to try and help the situation about thirty percent of all its energy from its nuclear power stations they've been severely disrupted following the earthquake and tsunami and of course the the own growing disaster taking place at fukushima. in russia the emergencies ministry are working very closely with their atomic energy watchdog to try and come up with a contingency plan they've already started training in fact case scenario come into play and we see a full scale meltdown of fukushima so they're basically looking at all possible outcomes from the continuing problem there with the nuclear power plants course moscow has experience with dealing with a serious nuclear accident. in. history of course happening in ukraine

and from ukraine we can now hear. he talks about what russia could bring to the table should a full scale nuclear disaster be on the cards. at painful trip down memory lane alexander often goes to the thirty kilometer a chernobyl exclusion zone in ukraine but every visit evokes sad emotions twenty five years ago what is now the ghost town of three that was 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 good years here i like to hear me out and even those who've never been here before come and feel the car. so they 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

that is one of the 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 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 blast. and 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 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 century since the disaster the thirty kilometer area around the plant is a nuclear wasteland the former 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 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 me a fly. and in 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 this class post-boy all the really stop worrying is 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 dream to kilometers off the

facility going to five years ago people of the affected area were less fortunate the reaction of the japanese government suggests that lessons of chernobyl have decades later been learned let's see risky artsy reporting from kiev ukraine. well despite the second explosion at the fukushima one facility crews are still fighting to cool down all their overheating fuel rods site christopher assignments a professor at a talker university believes that while the danger remains great we're not talking about a neutral noble. 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 so it is a disaster and a charitable incident but the situation is the furor odds can melt they can become oxidized and the rods are protected by zirconium our loike coating 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 that causes that 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 solve i would hazard to guess that it's 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 scaped in the explosion from daiichi reactor number one building 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 defected 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 where the water supply they can cause long term radiation poisoning and. just to remind you of our breaking news story this hour japan could witness a third explosion just hours after its fukushima daiichi power plant was hit for the second time but the third reactor has lost its cooling capacity which could lead to a blast if it overheats and eleven people were injured in monday's explosion that's the second explosion and up to one hundred sixty people could have been exposed to radiation from the two incidents this all fall those a record of breaking earthquake in the country which again it triggered a giant tsunami destroying major parts of the country prime minister and autocrat has called it japan's worst crisis since world war two now the death toll from the entire disaster is expected to be exceeded ten thousand people will be following the developments for you all day long here on r t so do stay with us with all the latest. the earthquake that triggered tsunami has also gravely affected the

country's economy with the government's injecting a record amount of money into the markets to stabilize the financial system well for more on the economic impact of this massive disaster let's cross to our business desk in a few moments. hello and welcome to the business update japan's economy is set to suffer significantly after being hit by one of the biggest earthquakes in history while the country's infrastructure is seriously damaged the nation's industrial clusters in the south and west seem to have been spared the worst but local carmakers that it drawn its

forms of oil find as shut down factories and moreover the crisis a damaged nuclear plants north tokyo is threatening to cause an energy that could set all sectors of the island some ports and tokyo in japan south have resumed operating after all were initially closed and new warnings of aftershocks meanwhile japan's economy minister warns companies still operating that they would face a transition shortages people a lot higher government in order to avoid unexpected blackouts the government may ask major industrial facilities to cut back on their electricity usage if the shortage of electricity continues rotating power outages may become necessary wrote . ok now let's have a look at how the asian markets are reacting to the situation in japan the nikkei closed down more than six percent on monday as investors expected the earthquake and tsunami to take a toll on the economy japanese carmakers are tronics farms and well refined as saw

their share prices drop by double digit percentages japan's bank says it's just injecting a record one hundred eighty three billion dollars into money markets to stabilize the financial system the reaction in hong kong is less negative behind saying they're slightly down at the moment. and european stocks are down in trading following their week asian session on a day set to be dominated by the economic impact of the earthquake and tsunami in japan frank has stuck straight in over one percent in the red and the footsie is down one third of a percent this hour. here in russia both the r.t.s. and the miles it's the start of monday's trading in the right of the situation in japan but have managed to climb into positive territory at this hour of the us before his date on friday slightly encouraging investors but there's no message sell more energy shows so far as attrition of instability and that's just from any major moves russian stocks declined at the end of last week as world rushes main

revenue or a tumbled after that earthquake in japan. and russia stock markets will be looking towards for the economy data coming out of the us despite the situation in japan a rocking investor sentiment director of equity sales of michael stein looks at the week ahead the market's going to take its cues from external factors with a lot of investors trying to quantify the economic damage associated with this earthquake in japan and whether or not that's going to slow down growth in that part of the world investors will also look to tuesday as a form c. meeting where they'll be looking for signs that bernanke is going to keep interest rates low just by science if inflation is picking up and the u.s. economy unethically investors will look at the property results for severe bank which are due out on tuesday or wednesday they'll also be looking for p.p.i. data and industrial producer which comes out i mean week. michael steiner that's creative there. directors and to be have blocked

a proposal that would see the anglo russian girl venture but as the bait in the b.p. alliance but the russians were snipped the decision was made of the latest company's board meeting on saturday in a tit for tat the joint ventures russian shareholders have rejected the proposal to hold discussions with pursuing the arctic opportunity in general b.p. and rosneft announced a sixteen billion dollars share swap and joint exploration agreement of the russian arctic sharks but a group of shareholders they are blamed the british pardon of growth there a grim and entering into discussions with rosneft without them. are one a high court injunction in london that has put the b.p. rosneft deal on hold until the dispute is result now they do on a decision by the stockholm arbitration which is to be made this month. and shareholders are neurons committal have voted on friday to elect a new board with the results expected to strengthen. position in the battle for

control of the world's largest nickel mining company earlier russian leaders at a time in her raising his twenty five percent stake and rolls to nearly thirty percent roles to major shareholders' interests and resell which is owned by a look to have been trying have been buying for three years to gain control of the nickel producer sources say both turn into a basket may hold talks on ending their few drafts of the meeting official results of the voting will be published within the next two weeks that wraps up the business board for knowledge joining in less than one hour's time for more business news and find more stories on our website r.t. dot com slash business.

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