japan braces itself for further losses two more reactors appear to be faltering my rocketing fears of a nuclear meltdown. authorities claim radiation is reaching the dangerous levels near the plant to longer than families and people have been ready for. new details and five hundred people are confirmed dead so far and more than three thousand the missing since friday's mega quake and conducts also now. international community is offering a helping hand to japan but some say the devastation is proof that countries are

simply unable to deal with natural and manmade catastrophe it's. a very warm welcome to you this is live from moscow i'm. our top story now of course the cooling systems of two more reactors at the fukushima nuclear power plant in japan appear to be faltering it's this exact problem that's caused all the blast so far also a pool of spent nuclear fuel that the station is said to have reached a boiling point or fears of a nuclear meltdown have skyrocketed since the reactor blast down japan has reportedly now told the international atomic energy agency the facility is it releasing radioactive materials into the air and it is have been using seawater to cool the reactors two of them. a new pin meltdown increasing radiation levels being

published the detective around the country. where we're now going to. be no one are officials saying about the rising levels of radiation in the capital . but of course at this point in this officials are trying to keep things under wraps and keep their problem so they are saying we very decent level. it would have been raised but not significantly and are not presenting any need to danger to residents of the japanese capital of course at the same but you have to remember that the levels of radiation around the problems are such that thousands of people have already moved actually did and tens of thousands have been told to keep their doors and windows shut and not leave their homes so at some point there were reports that. radioactivity levels just north of tokyo. have about thirty

three times the norm so that is the situation that we're looking at right now and of course the i.a.e.a. is also saying that radiation levels are going to that are going to. rise in the nearest future as the radiation reaches tokyo so we're keeping a close watch on whether or not we're going to have any further reaction from the japanese authorities. in the japanese kept me actually rise as well we also know that deals with i would die and how more than one hundred thousand. have been released by and sent off to the areas affected their most so that is the situation as radiation is concerned. on this part right now and the end of the country has been assessing the damage caused by the quake the tsunami of course do we know what's happening in the rescue operation ongoing in the country. well we do know that of course you have to remember that twenty

five hundred people have been confirmed dead thousands are missing so the number is probably going to the number is going to change in the next couple of days at this point of course the main concern is with the possibility of an active nuclear meltdown and that is what everybody is keeping a close eye on but of course. the rescue efforts are still continuing there of course trees various countries helping japan in that regard including russia who sent a ministry of emergency situations specialists then also specialists from. russia's atomic energy agency who are also working on trying to help japan to keep the possible nuclear disaster or the already happening nuclear disaster under wraps as much as possible but of course the rescue operations are still underway and what's the feeling among the people taking right now is that panic in the air. but there

is no panic but there were some signs of discontent knowing just concerned rather for the public there is not that many people out in the streets it's very very quiet it's almost a morals feeling you would imagine soak into the city bursting with lights and activity there is hardly anybody out on the streets right now people that are out there all wearing face masks also there have been reports of also shortages of someone who has had been reported people are increasingly buying such things as water and based products and some of the things help in securing off the shelves but again they're going to get very orderly fashion and now there's no accounting for but he's running around screaming that's what we were hoping to see but still of course there is there is a very very bizarre feeling in the arab states obviously something is in the air so to speak and it's not just radiations probably theory and a pretension it's people are still leaving port or what's going to happen next. and many thank you for that. well

a fine day since the quake it's apparent that it seems unfair perry of paul and the told to take it from the pool for instance he. said is rapidly becoming more dangerous. there is a sense that the radiation is spreading further and further from the site being detected for example out to sea and in very very low levels in tokyo so the implications are that the spread of radiation is increasing rather than being controlled and the implications of that for japan are devastating of course and human health and human habitation and communities hopefully this will be insane so that the very worst of this is localized to the side of the plants and there's no truth danger to health or property you know far down where it certainly appears that we're not getting the full story in the sense that every day we are told that

the situation is under control and that efforts are succeeding in reducing the risk but you have every day we see the situation getting further and further out of control each day we wait here in japan to a much more grim situation then the day before and it's it's hard to imagine and i think it's hard to give accurate information i think it's hard for the government to get accurate information but i think that there's a growing distrust among people in japan that the information that we're receiving is not informing us to the extent that we would like it to in it that doesn't reduce panic it just makes people all the more uncertain when they believe they can't trust fully the information they're being given the situation is very much difficult to control there's no doubt about it you know you have a site there you've had four explosions and significant radioactive releases at the site of the reactors so you're having extremely high levels of radiation in that

local area making it extremely difficult for people to conduct the kind of work that may be useful. well correspondent i've been it to use in that quake hit japan and now wrote some of the events of the day around the fukushima nuclear plant. i've been to explosions at the fukushima power plant today so far and following that second one really seriously is a major radiation leak now just recently chief cabinet secretary for japan has been speaking to the press very frequently saying that the radiation levels around the plant have been dropping but following that second explosion they did peak at four hundred times the maximum level. one should be exposed to over the course of a whole year now so widespread radiation contamination and radiation sickness levels seems. really hyped the warning levels as seem to be around one million so around half there are now but it does seem like the radiation levels are decreasing

however the number of foreign news crews i've been to today and a number of experts unfortunately can you think they don't believe what the japanese government is saying the general wisdom is. from those who live here and live in it for a number of years and what they're saying is they don't really trust the information they received they think we're reading through the light reading between the lines and from what i mean. addressed to people saying that they enjoy was that it's sort of veiled by. get away if you can and a number of people even the plan is increasing the extra seems to have begun and all the foreign news crews i've spoken to headed for the exits i'm actually now a little bit further away from fukushima ted i'm heading towards the gutter on the west coast because i'm with a team from new zealand to a heading for the airport but all the flights out. there are actually booked up

for the next two days so they're on on a waiting list for two days and it seems like all the other airports are slow as people try to leave town the streets. sendai this morning you can see the concern because they were queuing up to watch shots and still still have food left. ready to stop because they said the radiation cloud could seem spread to their advantage of one hundred kilometers north and focusing on. the same doors for a long period of time if that radiation plant does read. them in front of it professor. paul are now in grave danger and so there is a serious risk of contamination at this point but the contamination is probably limited to difficult area near stories or having to focus on the reactors whose temperatures are the highest and that may require the development of coolant and cooling materials such as generator power and pumping power away from

the other reactors if the level of coolant and the reactor pressure vessel falls below a certain level the tops of those rods will be exposed to the air there is a super heating of the air and any water vapor around them that causes oxidize asian essentially with very rapid rust him which produces hydrogen and that hydrogen is what as we have seen as cars the explosions in reactors the most immediate concern which has come to us in tokyo over the past twelve hours last night is that the amount of fuel available in the north that is gasoline and diesel fuel and diesel fuel is one of the keys to resolving this situation diesel generators which are pumping it's a mixture of seawater and boron that is more boric acid boron in the forecast it is a very good neutron absorbers so it's good at slowing that reaction down the sea

water and boric acid is being pumped into these reactors and those pumps must continue working well the amount of water pressure required in this situation is extremely high because the. as reactor cores are so hot as the water hits them it turns very rapidly into steam and that steam has to be moved away from the reactor rods and more water going into its place so a constant stream of water has to be maintained. from the program our business team will be bringing you the economic implications of disasters the feds and his union now with for us you the that's right and as the japanese markets saw a massive selloff as investors were trying to guess how badly japanese media companies could be hit for another disaster business archly is tracking the tradition closely and will be bring you more later in the hour. now russian

families living in a safe proximity to japan offering temporary foster care to children caught in going quake disaster and russian regions closer to the danger zones emergency services remain on the higher the threat of a radioactive cloud reaching the areas in minimal. foreign workers from fleeing. is that right. after the first reports about yet another explosion out there because she might nuclear power plants were released emergencies officials for this region have been turned supplied chap sport radiation levels here in the region russia's closest part to japan we talk to representatives of the ministry is some time ago they showed us a car which they quit with professional geiger meters which would imagine relation levels at different places around the city of the car will be raising the city of usual societies so the matches his ministry here assures that as of tuesday morning

there is no increase in radiation levels and there is no cause for the residents to plan you. can see it. in the worst case scenario locals can make. a home there's no threats to the health of the people radiation breeding certain no level . you know what we know that russia's defense ministry says it is ready to back it is its personnel from the coral islands which is the closest part of the region to japan. and the residents for example are searching for their personal geiger counters to madge already ssion levels we also know from pharmacies that sales of the or dean have rockets it and people will vigorously want to make sure that they are well prepared for a possible threat so radioactive a mission in case if there is a nuclear catastrophe in japan from what we know from what we know from people we've spoken to is that they believe the emergences ministry of russian there

reports about normal radiation levels is just that they are not quite sure whether the japanese are playing down the thrives of a nuclear catastrophe or not planes heavey international app or so of usual according to the shuttle after what we know there are no edition no lights a range of people here indeed are not new to natural disasters such as tsunamis and earthquakes but with a new clear throughout in place it seems that they have to be prepared for the are no and a lot depends on the wind it is very crucial so what people should be closely monitoring now is weather forecasts it will take a radioactive cloud if there is an explosion inside a core of a nuclear reactor less than a day to reach the cost of russia. now a no fly zone with a radius of thirty kilometers has been imposed probably the japanese authorities over the focus human nuclear plant the company that owns the facility has admitted

a meltdown is a possibility following explosions at all three of the work in the reactors and the fire one of those several people have been injured in the blast well more than one hundred fifty people exposed to radiation japan's prime minister has addressed the nation as fears intensify about a possible nuclear disaster forty seven it districts in the country are hoping to record all radiation readings to assess the spread. well russia has been pledging help and support in japan sending crews of emergency workers and aid ever since the earthquake triggered blasts occurred every night that one has more on moscow's involvement. russia has sent a number of emergency ministry personnel to japan and they're working in a number of locations we know that a lot of them have already arrived in japan and have basically every kind of gear

with them to be completely honest and to at least to step everything give. us a sense basically yes sorry to tell you that i need that assistance was to look for survivors at least i was such that i was left passed out yesterday that's my day having that watch that ship and that there was a person out here specifically with that radiation that said to areas of the urgency the sea is expected to listen to people working in japan doing everything necessary everything in their power to give assistance where it may be needed as russia knows from firsthand experience how difficult it is and how horrifying it is to deal with the aftermath of radiation i think accident that should determine our

plans as devastated and many mistakes have already been gleaned from that experience of living with a very bitter lesson that perhaps not everything is under human control as my colleague alex sanchez can see if. it was a frail old experiment that led to history's biggest nuclear disaster in april nine hundred eighty six the chernobyl reactor exploded as a result of the wrong individuals being in the wrong place at the wrong time and the going to walk with they had very poor knowledge of the physics of the reactor they knew the manual and what bonds to push but that's it they knew nothing of the reactor physics the personnel job the reactor intrastate was out of control while the orthorexic. clearly knew who to blame for the fall out even the soviet union's top scientists were at a loss as to what to do in the days that i passed the unfolded model is going to.

patients as a remission free will this was something unseen before a nuclear power station with flames and smoke over it was very good or over centuries on history seems to be repeating in japan despite the all four of these claims there are of having the situation on the control the fukushima nuclear power plant has already seen explosions and that's despite advancing to systems which the chernobyl reactor never had been we look to the earthquake reaction was completely false he means. the reactors happen. only and this is very an exception. when we. see the decent that such a situation is unfolding in one of the world's most technologically advanced countries has heightened the sense of alarm internationally but some experts say

one should look into how the japanese have been dealing with nuclear physics to get clues as to their continuing difficulties in dealing with a disaster so the technology is dead he told. the society the government the regulators believe that the technology can be operated safely but there's a built in psychological complacency if you're operating something that's so inherently dangerous when you go to work every day do you keep thinking about how dangerous that technology is that would be over time rather damaging psychologically so in other words they convince themselves that they've mastered this technology and unfortunately with nuclear power there's no second chance the japanese nuclear drama is certainly not the first case of man's over reliance on technology it can be a dangerous friend and when mishandled can strike in disastrous fashion we have always seen this with these what they call tech with character years you remember

last year there was a vessel or oil spill in the gulf of mexico again you have a very competent famous company that seemed to know what it was doing but they simply had four conjuncture conditions that would create a disaster so this is the human condition we simply are unable it seems to handle these technologies were probably not ready for them the nightmare that the chernobyl reactor became was eventually sealed off within the massive concrete tomb called the so-called figures the catastrophe provided valuable lessons in how to deal with the reactor disaster but also stern warnings about the dangers of nuclear energy what new lessons will be learned and what implications they will have for nuclear technology the world nervously waits to see alexey russia ski r.t. more than that is spying go from the. lines just the republican do to minimize the

effects of possible radioactive contamination. from the clinton one as long. as the requested. radius people are advice. indoors not to grow old so in case we need to wear some of the most we are getting a lot of food from all the bone wells. which has been grown. so our commonsense protective measures in the world where we will hear and also. to expect those there were no calls for if a person suspects. us and should immediately seek for medical help me to call for advice from professionals every consulate and nearly every city here

and we've all seen the so-called radiation emergency medical preparedness. so all. our. children. sent us were worried you could be nearly of measures in. order for some more course students or for people who are reaching the decision. or. really. pounds economy is facing its biggest challenge since world war two after being hit by one of the strongest earthquake in recorded history don't play the crates theory i passed pounds industrial heart in the subways and stealth throughout the business sector for more let's cross over to the business desk. that's right and as you said japan's worst economic collapse since world war two

has become a reality as it faces first crippling crisis initial estimates already put the country's losses at one hundred seventy two billion dollars but some experts say the actual laws could be much more although the quake fury bypassed japan's industrial heartland the shock waves have been felt throughout the business sector power supply is critical in the country for arms like toyota nissan hope to stop production because eleven of japan's fifty four power stations are out of action they are running out of energy carmakers shipbuilders topology companies worldwide are short of supplies after the disaster transportation is in super the effect it puts handling as much as seven percent of japan's industrial output sustained major damage with most likely to be out of operation for months and damage to the oil refineries is having a knock on effect with queues forming at petrol pumps. they now let's see how the

asian markets reacted to the situation in japan the massive sell off on the tokyo stock exchange continued on tuesday as investors were trying to guess how badly japan's major companies could be hit the nikkei closed just under eleven percent of its second slump in two days hong kong's hang seng credit those losses closing the session down three percent the increase losses were compounded by japan's prime minister's statement that a substantial amount of radiation was leaking from the fukushima nuclear power plant. and it's a see all roads in europe on the back of panic selling that swept across tokyo in the aftermath of the number explosion at the troubled for the shimon nuclear plant stacks a slumping more than three percent and the footsie is not far behind with a two percent loss this hour. and here in russia both the art. yes of the mice itself the gun tracking global losses after largely ignoring the japanese crisis on monday energy shares and losing ground on decreasing oil prices slopestyle

a look at some individual share moves most banking shares are down was going to be leading the full both the down almost two percent on the my six bucking the trend is in a nickel which is up one point two percent on the r.g.s. of russian metal holding natal inverse that it plans to buy shares in russia's largest nickel mining company. and in order to support the japanese financial system the country's central bank says it's injecting additional ninety eight billion dollars into the markets that's after it announced to pump one hundred eighty three billion dollars into its financial institutions on monday to help stabilize the country's economy but chris with search of strategist who believes more may still be needed it and the action will inevitably weak in the national currency. but injecting that amount of money into the financial system always weakens a currency we can expect to see more money being injected into the japanese economy

from the country's financial reserves remember they have the world's second largest financial reserves of a considerable amount of financial firepower that they can inject into the economy eyes that money comes into the economy that i believe will lead to more sustained weakness in the end this year and partly that will be a benefit or be beneficial in the economy tries to revive its export business tries to vij economy a wee currency is always a good stimulus and is addition to cash so i think we can look for a weaker yen as a result of this crisis if there were yen goes we can as expect as then that could have a competitive increase competitive pressure on chinese exports as against the the one we could certainly see the one strengthening as a relatively safer currency perhaps in this environment and that my pen lead to some trade tensions. chris with chief strategist there that the

business bulletin business archies monitoring the situation in japan closely and we'll be bringing you market reaction from the day. see you later.

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