melting all viewing rolled to expose the second reactor of the fukushima nuclear plant is clear amid reports that attempts to cool it down you can see i've been listening to. the unit accounts of the devastation that is being felt for the race to the annals and people are dead following on fridays and make a great counsellor nobby rescue teams from countries. helping with the search for estimated fifteen thousand still missing. and in all these would get down to these

forces seeming we gaining ground in the east of libya concerns grow over what's next to be condemned by the great music takes over the country wants to get. a very warm welcome seen this is our t.v. live from moscow well there are serious concerns that nuclear fuel rods may have partially melted a second reactor up the stricken from clause is comes as reports say towards now been fully exposed for the wee hours well the news comes after a blog to react to injured eleven people japanese officials still radiation that all within the limits all too often hundred sixty people could have been exposed to radiation in the first explosion hit the facility in northeastern japan today engineers has been trying to use the water to cool the reactors at the complex to

a strong. i five never paid for. by and. now that number is expected to rise from the city within east and wasn't missing. i bet it is in sendai one of the tunnels boston back to life way. or another reactor at the fukushima plant number one reactor now and then you're 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 other plants we've already seen one could happen now what they're doing to try and prevent that is by pouring on sea water into the reactor to try and cool it down and that's what they did to the other two plants unfortunately that didn't prevent any explosion however the

explosion a did happen earlier today according to the government the vessel the nuclear reactor that holds the radioactive material is still intact which is crucial to preventing a major nuclear catastrophe now if. people were injured in that explosion. on the electric power company they say that radiation levels are within the legal limits in fact significantly lower levels but a warning needs issue that's on top of that they are evacuating a huge area twenty films is radius. around. and two hundred people two hundred thousand people have been evacuated to safety however six hundred people still remain in that area they want to be accurate quick enough so they've been told to stay inside so as to not be exposed to any radiation we know also that the radiation has leaked out more thought are afield than that

according to the new york times and reuters is a u.s. aircraft carrier off the japanese coast hundred sixty comes into the pacific ocean . with a geiger counter they should in a cloud of smoke that radiation was above the normal levels. standing on deck crews crew members received radiation it was all about the same as they would do normally in a month so they're normal they're not at a critical level. panic being shown by people lining up outside supermarkets one q we saw the main street markets in a sense are town was. long enough no exaggeration people are being queuing up overnight to try and stock up on food so people are obviously concerned that potentially have spread radiation might mean they have to stay inside or another quake could lead to food shortages already there are food sources in town and in this whole prefecture in fact one man yes we met and seventy kilometers to stock up

on food and. right now several of the food sorts are limiting people to five items maximum and then having to queue up hours it's time to get into a sob so obviously there is some level of panic people on sewing it on the surface but they're definitely concerned to be there so much that they have 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 kilometer long outside one of the few petrol stations there were no record in the regime of protection and there only being limited to twenty liters of petrol the authorities the army troops and police took a police even as well lining the streets by going to the coast they're heading people off they're saying people can't make their way we were trying to get at the film pictures of the the devastation caused by the tsunami three days ago and every

thought of two hundred meters or so if there are police telling diverting us telling us to go back the damage is absolutely princely. you don't get a real feel for it until you actually see you actually in the case it's worth it area. the tsunami completely wiped out everything in it are very clear that they may reach. out to in nine minutes all in the great been incredible for. three building cars floating in what appears to be an inland. if that's the way they can really understand it and didn't really realise the power that must. we'll be until you actually see these pictures and we saw people sifting through well all of the remains of what was there were a boat as well and then the cuties being washed up seven kilometers inland

and so clearly the damages. are. i mean the sense of the city people think functioning pretty much. in this infrastructure now i can see on the road. to. destruction country another tsunami. and emergency services remain on high alert and russia's far eastern region close to northern japan they say that the danger of a possible radioactive cloud reaching the area is minimal as the wind is expected to flow towards the pacific ocean but despite that song source and foreign workers all said to be leaving the area our correspondent. has more from the region several thousand kilometers north of japan we measured says ministry say they have

reinforced the radiation levels here and say that as of now they stand at last the average for this area but not residents of this region choose to leave we had seen people sitting on their backs today early morning at the lobby of the hotel and they were desperate to get the first flight they could leave to moscow and other cities up russia this for the locals here most of them trying not to panic and to run about their businesses as usual and they also say that pictures they're now seeing in japan look so familiar to world they had been through several years ago. this is how i trust looks like you can hardly see the needle tracing the way form as a car to mourn it or a father is listening for every beat up things can change quickly what we've seen in the real time a new earthquake is here in japan this is the wave trace it's strong it has

a magnitude of six point five. this is what a not quake of magnitude nine translates into. your eleven is not new to us quakes has been running they say snake station in russia's part is over twenty years now but even for him friday is advance came as a painful and vivid reminder he and his old time friend survived another quake of similar in town city and civilian in one thousand nine hundred ninety one they don't need t.v. reports to know what the people of japan are experiencing now. but you wish it was a sustained sense of vertigo ceilings were caving in the first thing i did i rushed to my daughters i grabbed the older one while my wife took our new one and rushed into the street thank god we were on the first floor with cash. your it too was lucky to back it quickly but dozens of their friends were buried alive thanks.

to the innocence and it is a gross record with us e.g. arrived and it was nothing but tunnels no longer we will start hauling in range their citizens from say a word used to be streets were crowded and they. were just. then have to go risk earthquake was russia's most destructive in a hundred years over two thousand people died the town was never a build of the sea snake station was real it was shut down shortly after the collapse of the soviet union and you really was left without but the earthquake changed all that not only was the station reinstated dozens of new ones had been built these times moscow called yuri several times a day. where always an old fully better than the america's most asians was the first to report the earthquake was so quickly felt in civilian

as this is the closest part of russia to japan and while it tsunami threat has receded there's no relief for the people here with the danger now one of nuclear catastrophe everyone here understands that in the worst case scenario it will take a radioactive cloud less than an hour to reach the coast of russia extending the virtue of our team from the region and the nuclear threat grows moscow is ready to help take care with a stable and edging supply along with sending humanitarian aid the message from russian president dmitry medvedev during phone talks with japan's prime minister. has more from a capital. we know that people a mosque ah been flooding to the japanese embassy bringing flowers lighting candles showing their support for the people of japan as they struggle with this very difficult time various russian dignitaries and officials also expressed condolences

and pledged support and help to the japanese government and people who know that the russian foreign minister visited the japanese embassy today signing the condolence book and also pledging support to the people of japan in this very difficult time civill of rolf said that russia will do everything you can to help the japanese people this is the source of russian rescuers together with rescue teams from other countries searching for those who may still be alive on the temporary and they're assisting with recovery efforts i very much hope that the joint efforts of the entire international community will be able to help the people of japan and the japanese government which mitigate the consequences of the catastrophe that we have all witnessed when it be deeply touched by we expressed solidarity with the neighbors of japan the russian prime minister also offer his condolences to the japanese people pledging support also mentioned that russia will not be closing down its own nuclear program saying that the tragedy in japan is of

course a tragedy but russia will continue with its own nuclear jumped up russia as of course such a number of its emergency ministry personnel to japan plaintiff full of emergency ministry specialists left moscow another a batch of specialists were held up for then from the russians part is russia is doing everything it can to help the the people of japan we also know that russia is helping educate and in its energy sector of course that thirty percent of the country was dependent on energy derived from nuclear the nuclear power plants that are currently in a state of dire distress in japan that russia will be helping out as much as it's can with things like coal and other. roger use that energy can be derived from in order to help the japanese people through this difficult time of course russia does have a lot of experience in dealing with nuclear reactors and all the distress that they

can get into the twenty five years ago that your noble power plant suffered a meltdown my colleague alex it has details of that terrible tragedy a plane full trip down memory lane alexander often goes through 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 brega was his home before the chernobyl fallout changed everything. you know i didn't come here just to take photos of it still feels like home. i spent my best chance of years here along the beach here. and even those who'd never been here before come and feel the karma will be pretty soon we want to come back here. alexander is one of hundreds of thousands whose address changed to eight will the twenty sixth one thousand nine hundred six the patient 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 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 or were you simply can't do it in one hour or in two hours of a life we brought thirty one hundred boxes 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 they

reacted was destroyed quarter of a century since the disaster the thirty kilometer area around the plant is a nuclear wasteland the four 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 me a flat. an image of the pension are not enough to make an orderly that's why we returned home is here and we grow. besides nowadays more people come to the zone first but. many stop where you have some 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 suggests that the lessons of chernobyl have decades later been learned let's see russia ski r.t. reporting from kiev ukraine last song bernie an independent atomic energy consultant scotland as japan's nuclear crisis is what's worse than it seems. a situation in japan is absolutely critical the state of the fuel at reactor number three that exploded last night we know that for many hours half of the core was exposed so there's a very strong possibility that her fuel that has melted has already moved the reactor pressure vessel and is now the base of that reactor vessel that is called that could cause huge problems and of course major radiological releases but remember according to international standards there is no safe threshold for

manmade radiation so any tools including the dose that hit the sailors on board u.s.s. ronald reagan that could have health consequences we're not going to don't there ed but in on the ship. the idea that three communicate that there's no risk from any radiation is clearly wrong the consequences are that the fuel is no longer being cooled see or very energetic nuclear fuel within this core within the reactor we asked me to be eighty to ninety tons of highly radioactive fuel it will be heating up over a period of time over hours it will get to a point during which it will be producing gases those gases will be building up pressure inside the pressure vessel in the unit two and the question is at what point will the not be able to retain the pressure and there will cause possibly be a third explosion one of the problems in japanese culture is other societal and

government level is this faith in technology and the problem is with nuclear power these are technologies that were developed in the immediate aftermath of the second world war. they were designed these tiger reactors were actually designed for use in nuclear submarines so the technology is decades old i think iniquitous three is in its in its own psychological meltdown. let us tonight the latest plans to pound the table make faith the agency is still reassuring the public that there with no possibility of its noble accident out the think i see many were bought maintaining come to take it there's a thorazine made themselves be unaware of just how dangerous things could get historically i can tell you that in every situation like this when there is a nuclear industrial accident there is a very there's two different programs underway one is the program to control the problem and the other is the program to manage public opinion in the case of

managing public opinion there is always a desire to present the opinion to present a perception that the government is in control that there is no undue danger and there's no reason to panic often the need to control this kind of perception runs counter to the actual information which may be useful to people about whether they're in danger or not people rely on the government to give them accurate in formation about what the threats are so there's never been a case where the information has been accurate and useful so there's no reason to believe that the government is now not engaged in trying to manage public opinion and manage perceptions that this crisis is not so bad and perhaps that's accurate but we won't know that for a while. we're following all the latest developments in japan since. the quake and tsunami hit the country causing explosions out before long and it's now feared the

exposed fuel rods may have partially melted second react to the news cons of the hydrogen blast but reactor injured eleven people. say the process of pumping seawater to cool the reactor has now with up to one hundred sixty people could have been exposed to radiation since the first explosion hit the vicinity in the piece in japan today. triggered by make it quake you can probably find sanai and left. the numbers around rescue teams from several countries including russia continue the search for a thousand still missing. of course bring you updates on the situation in japan as well as expert opinion and analysis throughout the program. let's cross over to libya now where the strength of colonel gadhafi is offensive continues so overwhelmed rebel forces were have been reports of airstrikes by u.s.

military as talks are underway in france and the imposition of a no fly zone over libya policy or how the latest from generally. we're receiving conflicting reports the rebels saying that they're in control of the town but libyan state television reporting exactly the opposite of what is possible is that these government fleets have retreated from the town they regrouping and they will least strike which has been a strategy elsewhere it is becoming increasingly more clear that these men are making advantages with the ultimate destination of benghazi in mind there are also growing concerns among those rebel groups of gadhafi t. purcell's these are men who are and they are keeping a low profile and the fear is that when they feel there is a sizable presence of gadhafi soldiers in a town they will come to the front and they will take to the streets and fries the international community at the moment is meeting in paris the u.s. secretive state hillary clinton is holding discussions with the leadership of the opposition here in libya they're expected to reach some decision of an

international response to what is happening here in libya the question over eight no fly zone and whether or not they'll give the green light to this but certainly the feeling is growing that france has acted prematurely by recognizing the libyan opposition as the legitimate voice of this country particularly when you see that could duffy's forces are making advances on the ground it raises questions in terms of if gadhafi had to remain in power how would foreign spend and impact how would the international community behave this is an international community that has denounced him how in fact were they talk to him if he had to stay in college if the gadhafi had to go it also real concerns that there is a vacuum of power that would remain it is not here in terms of the opposition who would come to the french we need to remember that the opposition are in equipped they get trained they not united and there are many questionable people within their ranks in fact the only you know fine call we are hearing is from the opposition themselves now saying the father tom international community decides

what it wants to do the situation here might already over. that is the way the news this is our hair are not see more now from the tree. thanks so much japan's economy is facing its biggest challenge since world war two after being hit by one of the biggest have quakes in history well the country's infrastructure is seriously damaged the nation's industrial clusters in the south and west seem to have been spared the worst many local car because there is an oil refiners have shut down he factories more of the crisis damaged nuclear plants north of tokyo is frightening to cause an energy squeeze that could set back all sectors of the economy some ports and japan south have resumed operating all were initially closed and have warnings of aftershocks meanwhile russia says it's ready to help japan with additional supplies of liquefied natural gas. and i mean look

lou it's a bit wondering if we're now looking at ways to support japan with additional energy supplies as a gastro will deliver an additional two hundred thousand tons of liquefied natural gas in april and may we're now developing ways to increase supply capacity the difficulty is that most of the gas we currently deliver is already distributed through existing contracts so we will have to hold talks with our partners to review some of the contracts because what you and chris we've heard or else it says despite the overall damage energy shortages could extend the economic setback across japan. short term it's obviously going to be a very severe shock and you can see from the pictures there is clearly a lot of damage a lot of disruption and particularly the warnings of power shortages that i've seen extends to consequences across the broader part of the country and that's where the real effect when pete people are sort of hold a fire waiting to see what happens next particularly waiting to see if there's any

follow up ready for the revenge or need to ration the nuclear power plants but in terms of the sequence well it's you know short term reaction will be very negative rebuilding and such a massive scale of course could then lead to a very strong boom afterwards. circular because the market started with asia's reaction to the situation in japan the nikkei closed more than six percent on monday to end on a two year low investors expected the earthquake and tsunami to take a massive toll of the economy japanese carmakers electronics companies and we'll saw the share prices drop by double digit percentages reaction to hang hong kong's hang seng was subdued as new year to see actually the index closed out point four percent u.s. stocks started moderately lower on monday but have increased their falls the past out of the lead by a pullback in utilities biggest drops even general electric is down two point six

percent the company designed boil all six of the reactors at the fukushima daiichi nuclear plant in japan. european stocks are also following a weak asia session after a negative opening in the united states the day has been dominated by the economic impact of breaks and tsunami in japan frankfurt's dax is down one hundred percent for the time problems. timely to russia the picture here rosier than anywhere else the r.t.s. is up one point two percent my six point eight percent if shaken off concerns over situation in japan secular some of the individual stocks and most energy shares are up that's despite world dropping another two percent after. shot fall on friday just for moving as good as involves three point two percent for most students more than three weeks as the government asked the company to considering recently five natural gas shipments terms of pad was now there's also up one point four percent and ross telecom is bucking the trend is down point nine sets this up.

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