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tonight meltdown fears grow after fuel rods are exposed at the fukushima nuclear power plant to meet reports that attempts to cool it down using seawater have been resume. the human cost of the devastation in japan is being felt with almost two thousand people confirmed dead following friday's mega quake and tsunami rescue teams from countries including russia are helping with the search for the estimated fifteen thousand still missing. and in other news we get our fees for sincerely regaining ground in the east of libya concerned about what's next if the leader can again by the global community takes over the country
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once again. welcome this is the r.t. news channel it's eight pm now here in moscow this monday night i'm kevin zero in one story dominating our coverage again there are serious concerns tonight that nuclear fuel rods may have partially melted now at the second reactor of the stricken from a power plant in japan it comes as reports say the rods have now been fully exposed for several hours but news follows a blast at a third reactor at the site which injured eleven people earlier radiation levels are reported to be increasing up to one hundred sixty people could have been exposed to radiation since the first explosion hit the facility in northeastern japan on saturday engineers have been trying to use seawater to cool the reactors
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of the complex for the catastrophic nuclear meltdown the events are triggered by friday's mega quake which was then followed by. almost two thousand people now confirmed dead but that number is expected to rise dramatically at least fifty thousand still. parties i have a benefit in sendai one of the worst affected by the huge way. another reactor at the fukushima plant power plant number one reactor is now in your 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 that plan could happen now what they're doing to try and prevent that is by pouring on sea water sewage into the reactor to try and cool it down and that's what they did to the other two to answer unfortunately that didn't prevent any explosion however the explosion
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a did happen earlier today according to the government we need to react to that also radioactive material is still intact which is crucial to preventing a major nuclear catastrophe. eleven people were injured in that explosion. on that the tokyo electric power company they say that radiation levels are within the legal limits in fact significantly lowered the levels but a warning the species on top of that they are have evacuated a huge area twenty kilometers radius. around. town. and two hundred twenty thousand people have been evacuated to safety however six hundred people still remain in an area they want to be accurate to quick enough so they been told to stay inside so as to not be exposed to any radiation we know also that the radiation has leaked out more far afield than that according to the new york times and a u.s.
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aircraft carrier off the japanese coast two hundred sixty comes into the pacific ocean. with a geiger counter they measure it in a cloud of smoke that radiation was above the normal levels. sounding on cruise members received radiation is all about the same as they would do normally in a month so they're above normal they're not at a critical level they panic here it's being shown by people lining up outside supermarkets it's one queue we saw at the main sea from arkansas in a sense or town was about a kilometer long and that's no exaggeration people have been queuing up overnight to try and stock up on food so people are obviously concerned that potentially the spread of radiation on i mean they have to stay inside or another quake could lead to food shortages are already there are food shortages in town and in this whole prefecture in fact man yes where we met and a couple seventy kilometers the stock up on food and right now several of the food
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stocks are limiting people to five items back from him and they're having to hew our hours that it's time to get into the store so obviously there is some level of panic people on showing it on the surface but they're definitely concerned so much so they're stocking our concert and also fuel our way here yet last night we saw a long queue of cars again about kilometer long outside one of the few petrol stations who are who are open in the fukushima prefecture. and there only being limited to twenty liters of petrol but the authorities the army troops and police take a police even as well lining the streets and going to the coast heading people are saying people can't make their way we were trying to get the film pictures of the the devastation caused by the tsunami three days ago and every sort of two hundred
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meters or so they were police telling divesting asking us to go back but damage is absolutely complete. you don't get a real feel for it until you actually see the actually it's worth it area. the tsunami completely wiped out everything in it are very clear that in came. in i mean it's poland you know great been incredible for we wiped out three buildings there cause thing in what appears to be an inlet and the. absolutely every fully understand it and didn't really realise the power that must have for we'll be until you actually see these pictures and we saw people sifting through what remains of what was being out there were a boat as well and beach. being washed up seven kilometers inland so really the damage is. far. inland and. there are
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a few buildings damaged in the sense of the c.p.t. things functioning pretty much. as normal in terms of infrastructure and i can see on the road they're starting. protections that trains are still not out of phase as are the stocks and tension of the tsunami. and urgency services remain on high alert in 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 grow towards the pacific ocean but despite that some tourists and foreign workers are said to be leaving the area our correspondent. more from the circle in the region several dozen kilometers north of. the margin says ministry say they have reinforced check the radiation levels here and say that as of now they stand at last than the average for this area but not residents at this region choose to
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leave we had seen people sitting on their backs today early morning the lobby of the hotel and they were desperate to get the the first flight. leave to moscow and other cities of russia this part of the locals here most of them trying not to panic and to run about that businesses as usual and they also say that teachers they're now seeing in japan looks for me here so what they had been through several years ago. this is how the trest looks like you can hardly see the needle tracing the way form as a heart monitor for the earth is listening for every beat but things can change quickly. you are now seen in the real time a new quake is here in japan this is the wave trace it's strong it has a magnitude of six point five. this is what an earthquake of magnitude nine
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translates into. your eleven is not new to quakes has been running these say snakes station in russia's far is over twenty years now but even for him friday is advance came as a painful and vivid reminder he and his old friend survived an earthquake of similar intensity in the nine hundred ninety five they don't need t.v. reports to know what the people of japan are experiencing now but you 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 newborn rushed into the street thank god we lived on the first floor. yury two was lucky to back here quickly but dozens of their friends were buried alive the morning we drove to the entrance and have to go several locals were in a car with us we arrived and there was nothing
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a turn was no longer where women start hauling in their fists and can say a word we're used to the streets with houses have been turned into earth just awful . they have to go risk earthquake was russia's most destructive in a hundred years over two thousand people die at the town was never a built but the seesmic station was reopened it was shut down shortly after the collapse of the soviet union and yuri was left without chop but the earthquake changed all that not only was the station reinstated dozens of new ones have been built these time small scale calls ury several times a day. we are always on high alert hopefully better than the americans stations was the first to report the earthquake was so quickly felt insecure you know as this is the closest part of russia to japan and while it's an army threat has receded there is no relief for the people here where the danger now one of
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nuclear catastrophe everyone here understands that in the worst case scenario it will take a radioactive cloud less than an hour to reach a coast of russia it's in the direction of our teeth from the supply in the region . of sending a rescue was to japan to help with the aftermath of friday's earthquake and tsunami as well as a proper potential for disaster russia's foreign minister visited the japanese embassy in moscow earlier to express his condolences. this is also russian rescuers together with rescue teams from other countries are searching for those who may still be alive among the dead three 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 and mitigate the consequences of the catastrophe we have all witnessed and have been deeply touched by we express solidarity with our neighbors in japan the group of russia is also
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sending its nuclear experts to do deal with the unstable fukushima power station or what he considers some of the most serious nuclear accidents in twenty five years ago others legs looks back about tragedy. a painful trip down memory lane alexander often goes to the thirty kilometer or not the exclusion zone in ukraine but every visit evokes sad emotions twenty five years ago what is now the gold star 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 along to here and even those who have never been here before come and feel the current. so they want to come back here. oleksandr is one of hundreds of thousands whose address changed after april the
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twenty sixth one thousand nine hundred eighty six the patient is one of the keys youngest districts in the late one nine hundred eighty s. houses sprung up here literally overnight many of those who had to leave their homes in the chernobyl area found their home here a total of three hundred thousand people had to be resettled from the contaminated land this new life came at a high price for some reason the soviet authorities meddled with the evacuation from the contaminated zone fifty thousand pleated residents the town just three kilometers from the exploded reactor were subjected to a great deal of radiation it sounds former deputy mayor says this dreadful mistake was caused by a mass confusion which followed the last. of those who asked the question don't quite understand what it takes to evacuate as many as fifty thousand people you simply can't do it in one hour or in two hours but we brought thirteen hundred buses here from here we had to inform people bring them together and in the first
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place we had to understand whether we actually needed the evacuation order 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 arche route 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 and a miserable pension not enough to make a normal living that's why we returned home is here and we grow food here besides nowadays more people come to there's a cursed post boy all the time when we stop and bring you some food or money. as the news of a nuclear ensued. and at the fukushima plant in japan broke out the first thing the
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authorities did was to evacuate residents within twenty kilometers of 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 say risky artsy reporting from key of ukraine. who despite the latest plus japan's atomic safety agency is still reassuring the public that there's no possibility of a chin or ball style accident that the focus she made it clear planned but while maintaining. jacobs says authorities may 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's 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
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a desire to present the opinion or to present a perception of a government is in control there is no undue danger and there is no reason to panic often the need to control or 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 the nation 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 or not it needs to in trying to manage public opinion and manage perceptions that this crisis is not so bad and perhaps that's accurate. we won't know that for a while and she'll bernese an independent atomic energy consultant from scotland he told us that japan's nuclear crisis is much worse as he sees it than officials are suggesting. the situation in japan is absolutely critical the state of the fuel
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at the reactor number three that exploded last night we know that for many hours half of the core was exposed and so there's a very strong possibility that the fuel that has melted has already moved around the reactor pressure vessel is now the piece of that reactor vessel it's called that could cause huge problems and of course we need to really logical releases but remember according to international standards there is no sea threshold for manmade relation so any tools including reduce that hit the steelers on board u.s.s. ronald reagan that could have health consequences we're not going to don't get it but on the on the ship but the idea that to communicate that there's no risk from any radiation is clearly wrong. of course following all the latest developments in japan since that massive quake and tsunami hit the country causing explosions at the fukushima power plant it is now feared that the exposed fuel rods tonight may
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have partially melted or in second reactor but use comes after a hydrogen blast in the third reactor earlier in june eleventh meanwhile reports say the process of pumping seawater to cool the reactors now one hundred sixty people could have been exposed to radiation since the first explosion of the sympathy in northeastern japan on saturday and the radiation level is said to be increasing their events are triggered by friday's mega quake from followed by a tsunami that's left almost to found their numbers are expected to rise dramatically between from several countries including russia to search for the thousands of people still missing. as i say will continue for as we get more news out of japan as well as bring your expert opinion and analysis throughout the program. pacific some other news now to libya and the strength of colonel gadhafi is offensive continues to overwhelm with rebel forces across the country it seems we've been reports of airstrikes by his military as fronts hosts
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talks on the imposition of a no fly zone over libya and his policy is in tripoli for us with developments from the country's continuing fierce battles. but this fighting is continuing in the east of the country particularly in the oil town of brega which is some two hundred twenty kilometers south of the rebel stronghold of benghazi we're receiving conflicting reports the rebels saying that they were in control of the town but libyan state television reporting that exactly the opposite what is possible is that these government troops have retreated from the town they regrouping and they will be strike which has been a strategy elsewhere it is becoming increasingly more here they deduct these men are making advances with the ultimate is to nation of being guard be in mind while the international community is meeting in cairo as the u.s. secretary of 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
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a no fly zone 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 steve that he does his forces are making advances on the ground it raises questions in terms of if gadhafi had to remain in power how would forms behave and in fact 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 power if go gadhafi had to go there also real concerns that there is a vacuum of power that would remain it is not clear in terms of the opposition who would come to the front you need to remember that the opposition in the quote they killed trained they not united and there are many questionable people within their ranks. for this discourse iteration will be. visiting professor of international relations at university in the capital ankara thanks for being with us professor.
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about this you know the uprising in libya is now into its fifth week is no good graphics still seems to be holding on strong so as you see it how will foreign governments react if the man very. denouncing ultimately regain control and stays put but it puts them in a very embarrassing position and they jump the gun and can without very quickly. and get it through the courts from some version of the coalition of. the rebels who exactly is. the government or british but a botched attempt to enforce it went home with a special forces mission now we have them and we want to intervene and. rise and use a form of intervention and if we do want to intervene do we want to intervene on behalf or maybe we can all agree the international community projects are going to europe and i want that were to go with who didn't want to install in his place let's face it it would be awful some western calls and doing needs nation a new government that's a very tricky operation around him so far we haven't seen anything from newark or
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we're not what you think the u.s. position is tonight the biggest change that solano up the last week in very recently the senate is considering military action against navy machinery clinton discussing the situation with that european counterparts in powers on the today do you think it's not responsive to the saying no i have to say again and no no oil rich region i was talking about that doesn't it. doesn't we say of course if you have a parallel situation in bahrain well. some countries turn a blind eye to saudi intervention kind of protest peaceful bahrain but we have been supporting the libya including for the construction of it maybe that was my choice and it is going to. talk with the rebels quite attention so we do have a problem of inconsistency on the court which i think it mentions in the arab world the other program progress is the order is important nobody would deny that in terms of the world economy. but if the colonel gadhafi his regime stays in car.
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it will have collection of italy in front of you may know seize enemy obviously the french guy. it's. rotational near and. we could see a normal war as well as a continuance and as the days go on knowing this situation as you do do you think we're any closer to foreign action. i think was a lot of pressure on me i don't know which of the it's for the reason no press. western states. have been. very good i haven't said a good number if you go but. the best i mean we come on the other hand pushing. reason to be person without actually knowing who you can support on the ground what kind of regime the system of state place where we might find a lot of resistance. including. very risky and.
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very workable psychological pressures a program. where a person can grow not one can see the decisive factor you can group along mistaken position for the noble or i prefer small company to be of use in the program thanks for joining us tonight from chris pre-shared. well one of the latest news as mentioned earlier on coming out of japan for you throughout the evening and night here on the news channel is also on our web site as well it's called the next headline update coming up in six minutes time but the ramifications of what's happening in japan all sudden a knock on effect in the world of business big knock on effect dimitris got the latest for you. thanks very much given japan's economy years facing its biggest challenge since world war two after being hit by one of the biggest earthquakes 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 japan central bank injected
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the market with one hundred eighty three billion dollars of additional liquidity now by flooding the banking system with cash it hopes banks will continue lending money and meet the likely surge in demand for post perth great firms energy also remains a concern due to the crisis of damaged nuclear plants north of tokyo which could set back all sectors of the economy meanwhile russia says it's ready to help japan with additional supplies of liquefied natural gas the price for light sweet crude has retreated below one hundred dollars per barrel on fears of a drop in demand in japan but chris weaver orders it believes the price of black called will not show significant downturn but moment due to the situation in the middle east remaining unstable. the main driver in the oil market right now is still in middle eastern folks in the middle east and the threat of supply disruption and particularly i think what helped the oil price from falling last
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friday and over the weekend is this news of rest spreading to saudi arabia's eastern province and its biggest oil production region so the threat of disruption in the middle east is still the dominant factor and that helped avoided big of christ fall in the in the in the oil prices right now. let's look at the stock markets now first asia's reaction to the situation in japan the nikkei closed down more than six percent on monday to end on a two year low investors expected the earthquake and tsunami to take a toll on the economy japanese carmakers electronics for oil refiners we all saw the share prices drop by double digit percentages for the reaction in hong kong it was served use the index gaining point four percent of the clothes u.s. stocks are trading in negative ground monday led by a pullback in utilities biggest drop seen in general electric it's down more than
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three percent the company designed all six of the reactors at the fukushima daiichi nuclear plant in japan. here in russia the picture quite different than my six both posting gains they've shaken off concerns over the situation in japan my six hour point four percent the obvious point eight percent of the drivers of the growth for most energy shares were up this spike will drop another two percent after a sharp fall on friday gazprom advanced the most in more than two weeks it's up three and a half percent as the government asked the company to consider increasing look five natural gas shipments to japan and norilsk nickel was up three percent. there was another plane as you know in japanese more of the morning lows in a lot of. good music. that's of course the same question of the world with. japan going up and down. here it's going up and down as growth of the city but is it to market this sort of thing happened in iraq as well we've seen actually the
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ruble went up and down and russia stock worth went up and down and the reason was that people didn't really know how to read because people didn't know what quite the expense the extent of the damage. was going to be the consequences for the wall the calling for the russian economy as well vested interests have a lot of idea what to do really wasn't much of a trend this really was a lot of volatility. and a third party has stepped into the long lasting basket was we lived in about that in the legs really pascoe for control over no risk nicole millionaire and the service man of says his iron mine i'm a teller investor is planning to increase its share in the world's top nickel producer the company already owns four percent of who agreed to work together we did it pascoe in questions related to notice legal strategy wants to do so the stake as he seeks to merge russia's biggest natural producers into huge company the move is the past his answer to the recent nicoll shareholder meeting with a titan apparently managed to strengthen his position twenty five percent of notice
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because currently owned by elected pascoe's roussel buzzing about holding owns up thirty percent stake and the stock went up three percent in today's session will be next with a recap of what's going on in japan after a very short break stay with us. culture is the same of you i can't tell if i still love her even more so because the world cup makes a big drift to the right call cross your and the us more and more people are given the political right and your good looks and more times than not it is the. world. remember you the latest in science and technology from around russia. we've done the future coverage.

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