japan braces itself for further blasts at its stricken nuclear power plant as a cooling system is about to move more reactors appear to be faltering and skyrocketing fears of a nuclear meltdown the same problem is exactly what triggered the explosions on monday and tuesday. but already saying that radiation is reaching its dangerous levels near the plant two hundred thousand people have now already fled. and nearly twenty five hundred people are confirmed dead so far more than three thousand dollars missing since friday's a mega quake and a colossal tsunami. and while it's words from the international atomic energy

agency head to the disaster area to offer their assistance and some say the devastation is proof that the world can cope with a problem that has helped to create. it with r.t. live from moscow where it's just after two pm now and let's return to our focus on japan and out of the six reactors out the fukushima power plant the final two that had been previously unaffected by the ongoing crisis there and i said to be losing their cooling capacities it's this exact problem that's caused all blasts at the site so far following of course the devastating quake and tsunami also a pool of spent nuclear fuel at the station is said to have reached boiling point it's stoking fears of a nuclear meltdown which were already high since the reactor explosions began.

japan has reportedly now told the international atomic energy agency that the facility is releasing radioactive materials into the engineers have been using sea water to cool the reactors in attempt to avert a nuclear meltdown will feed i think and report from around one hundred kilometers from the station itself. hope and treat seems is on edge because it seems like we could be on the verge of a nuclear catastrophe now having to explosions at the fukushima power plant today so far and following that second one there are really serious fears of a major radiation leak now just recently the 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 you over the course of the whole year now so widespread radiation contamination and radiation sickness

levels seems. really high for warning labels it seems to be around one million so hard that now but it does seem like the radiation levels are decreasing however the number of foreign news crews i've spoken to today and a number of experts and foreigners living here think they don't believe what the japanese government is saying in general with. from those who live here and have been doing so for a number of you what they're saying is. they don't really trust the information they receive they think every reading through the light reading between the lines and from what the french public interest people selling to stay indoors it's sort of veiled by. get away if you can and number of people even you can is increasingly yes that seems to have begun and all the foreign news crews i've spoken to have headed for the exits i'm actually now a little bit further away from fukushima i've had i'm heading towards the. we got

on the west coast because i'm with the team from new zealand too and heading for the airport but all the flights out. that's ok when i start there are actually booked up for the next two days so they're on a on a break to miss the two days and it seems like all the other airports supposed people trying to leave town the streets of sendai this morning you can see the concern because people were queuing up shops are still still have food left ready to stock car because they feel the radiation cloud could soon spread to so then they're just one hundred kilometers north she meant. to stay indoors for a long period of time if that radiation spreads. about reporting the cost of assignments an associate professor at the international kristin you have us very into believes that people are now in grave danger of exposure. there is a serious risk of contamination at this point but the contamination is probably limited to fukushima area near thora these are having to focus on the reactors

whose temperatures are the highest and that may require the development of current and cooling materials such as generator power and pumpkin power away from the other reactors if the level of coolant and the reactor pressure vessel falls below a certain level of 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 very rapid arresting him which produces hydrogen and that hydrogen is what as we have seen as caused 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 work acid boron or gas it is a very good neutron absorbers so it's good at slowing the reaction down and seawater and boric acid is being pumped into these we accurst and those pumps must continue working well the amount of water pressure required in this situation is extremely high because those 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 put into its place so a constant stream of water has to be maintained. well higher than normal levels of radiation have been detected in the japanese capital with you authorities are missing there is an imminent risk to health correspondent and when you go to go who's in tokyo for us. thank you very very i have three that have been raised right

now it's difficult we are not presenting any need to residents of the japanese capital of course at the same time you have to remember that the levels for a nation and around the problems are such that thousands of people have for ready to move actually did and tens of thousands have been told to keep their doors and windows shut and did not leave their homes so at some point there were reports. of radioactivity levels of just north of tokyo and have been 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. saying that radiation levels are going to are going to. rise in the near future as the radiation reaches chios so we're keeping a close watch on whether or not we're going to have any further reaction from the japanese authorities. the very nice intervals in the japanese kept me actually

rising as well we also know that. happened more than one hundred thousand. have been released by i.a.e.a. and sent off to the areas affected the most twenty five hundred people have been confirmed dead thousands are missing so the number is probably going to be the number is going to change in the next couple of days at this point of course the main concern is with any possible over here where you can act and nuclear meltdown and that is what everybody is keeping a close eye on and of course the the rescue efforts are still continuing there of course countries various countries helping japan in that regard there's not that many people out in the streets it's very very quiet it's almost a moros feeling you would imagine so can be a city bursting with lights and it's a beauty there's hardly anybody out on the streets right now people that are out there all wearing face masks. well so there have been reported also shortages of some of those have been reported people are increasingly buying such things as

qualified or and based products and some of the things happens the carrying off it sells but again they're doing it in a very orderly and then better there's no panic obviously something is in the air so to speak and it's not so easy since probably theory and prevention that's the place they're waiting for it but what's going to happen next. things are going to give us her footing well five days since the quake put japan's nuclear facilities on to a precarious path dr robert jacobs from the hiroshima peace institute he says the situation is rapidly becoming more dangerous and there's 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 about for japan are devastating of course on human

health and on human habitation and community use hopefully this will be contained so that the very worst of this is localized to the side of the plants and there's no true danger to health or property you know are downwind 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 yet every day we see the situation getting further and further out of control. meantime russian families living in safe proximity to japan are offering a safe haven would see her children caught up in the ongoing quake disaster but russian regions closer to the danger zones emergency services remain on high alert they say the danger of a possible radioactive cloud reaching the area is minimal as the wind is expected to blow it towards the pacific ocean but despite that some tourists and authority workers are leaving the area and our correspondent. has more from the. routes one

hundred kilometers north of japan. emergences officials for this region have in turn supplied checks but radiation levels here in the civilian region that would talk to representatives of the ministry some time ago they showed us a car which they quit with professional guide our meters which would measure radiation levels at different places around the city the crowd will be raising the city of usual supply lines so very much is 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 panic. in the worst case scenario locals can make. home there's no threat to the health of the people radiation readings are at a normal level. meanwhile russia's defense ministry says that it is ready to sends out its personnel from the poor islands any time soon this is the closest policy of this region to not japan and also sales of i already and have rocketed in

pharmacies across the city obviously people want to make sure that they are well prepared in case that there is a radioactive admission threat from what we know from what we know from people we've spoken to is that we believe the emergence is ministry of russian there are reports about normal radiation levels is just that they are not quite sure whether japanese are playing down the threat of a nuclear catastrophe or not planes leave the international airport of usual quashing to the shuttle for what we know there are no edition flights arranged how people here indeed are not new to natural disasters such as tsunamis and earthquakes but with a new clear threat in place it seems that they have to be prepared for the unknown . and a lot depends on the wind it is very crucial so what people should be closely monitoring now is whether full cos it will take a radioactive cloud if there is an explosion inside a core of

a nuclear reactor less than a day to reach this part of russia. that was our teacher couldn't reach over according to well still to come for you a little later in the program our business team will be bringing you the economic implications of the current disastrous events in japan now here's a if you live with a preview. of the global markets are seeing a massive selloff on tuesday as investors are trying to guess how badly they kept these economy has been hit for the disaster more in business in twenty minutes. thanks but you do see you soon japan has asked of the international atomic energy agency to help the country deal with its nuclear crisis this comes amid concerns of a similar incident taking place around the world during the bush war has been following the developments in europe and i would join us live from brussels hi daniel so tell us what is japan exactly asking from the international atomic energy agency. as the japanese government has officially requested the i need to provide

expert missions the is the international atomic energy agency the un's nuclear watchdog based here in the european union and its head yukiya amano says it has its abilities in finding and releasing and securing radiation levels and environmental danger levels and also in finding missing radioactive sources it comes as the emergency response meeting here in brussels has been raised from experts and ministerial level that means all twenty seven e.u. energy ministers have been called to brussels to really cordon its own emergency response and also to see how they can help or help japan in this growing tragedy concerting of the e.u. energy commissioner says we need to see if we can provide an energy policy for the e.u. avoids nuclear energy of course it's a it's a flute it's really a change from the traditional energy policy of many countries in the european union which was to increase its nuclear nuclear capacities because italy for example is

a big e.u. country which is starting from scratch a big nuclear program france belgium here also a big nuclear programs but now there is increasing concern about the safety obviously of nuclear reactors there are boiling water reactors here in the european union which is the same kind of plant as that of fukushima and there is growing public opposition to that now there was a demonstration of around sixty thousand people in germany near for nuclear reactors there and if to give you a flavor of the sentiment here in brussels let me just quote from the portuguese state secretary feel environment's you said in the light of the nuclear meltdown in japan member states need to reconsider their energy policy and related security measures nuclear power is neither a safe option nor is it sustainable the one hundred plus nuclear. glanced across the european union and now conducting stress tests to see whether

a similar accident could happen in the european union part of town you talk about the i.a.e.a. now getting involved you talk about a meeting with twenty seven e.u. ministers they're discussing energy policies but do you have any details whatsoever on and any european countries sending a or tents or any type of help in the rescue and recovery mission out in japan because i just met with jose manuel barroso the president of the european commission and he's here saying that the response to this tragedy is top of the european union's agenda it was offered in the first days but japan held fire while it coordinated its own response and now requests are coming through from tokyo for support and help and the european union countries as a whole and also each separate member states here have said that they are willing and. want to help or japan in any way they can i must see it is the first stages we are the initial stages of coordinating that response so we're sort of the

ministers here today are expected to come out with a statement in the coming hours to say exactly how they will respond i've been able to check and if you look at later i please don't have a short life in brussels thank you. risk assessment analyst professor stearns says japan could potentially face massive task in securing the side of the power plant. if we worse comes to worse then we need to seriously consider measures very very similar to good measure. which means to cause damage quarry in this. segment. let's say you lived all your building or something like this to prevent contamination this is as far as the really concerned well because

again it's your soup you've been happens so then we can expect. a. ground. now or all six reactors off the fukushima nuclear plant have been effective with the last two are now in a critical condition a no fly zone over the radio so for thirty kilometers over the facility it has been imposed by the authorities the other side's owner has admitted a meltdown is a possibility following explosions at all three of the working reactors and. one of the others several people have been injured in the blasts while more than one hundred fifty have been it directly exposed to radiation we're getting the latest news report here confirm news that the death toll now at three thousand hitting hitting the headlines now meantime to japan's prime minister has addressed the nation as fears intensifies about a possible nuclear disaster forty eight seventy strips of the country are having to report continual radiation readings to assess the spread. but russia has been

pledging help and support soon stricken japan sending crews of emergency workers and aid ever since the first earthquake triggered a blast occurred and is going to talk about 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 brought every kind of gear with them to be completely honest independent for at least two weeks that everything gets into. the system as basic necessary to the people that i need that assistance or side to look for survivors that may still trapped under the rubble also know that right now there has left moscow yesterday that's monday heading that warship. agent and of those

a person out that deals specifically with that the radiation affected areas so all in all the emergency ministry is expecting to have at least a hundred people working in japan doing everything necessary everything in their power to give assistance where it may be needed as most russia knows from firsthand experience how difficult it is and how horrifying one is to deal with the aftermath of the radiation i think accident at the chernobyl power plant as well which devastated of course and many mistakes have already been gleaned from that experience including one very fearless and that perhaps not everything is under human control as mccauley the exercise came here find out 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 kind of water they had very poor knowledge of the physics of the reactor they knew the manual and want to push but that's it they nothing in the reactor physics personal delivery accurate to history it was out of control well the authority. 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 the catastrophe unfolded model is going to. as a remission free this was something unseen with a nuclear power station with flames and smoke over it was very good or of a century on history seems to be repeating in japan despite your thora these claims there are of having the situation on the control the fukushima nuclear power plant has already seen but explosions and that's despite advanced safety systems which the chernobyl reactor never have because we look towards the earthquake the reaction was completely foresee beams should the

reactors happen as it should be happening this is very exceptional. work. in. d.c. it would be decent to you 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 the disaster so the technology is there he told. the society that government regulators believe that technology can be operated safely but there's a built in psychological complacency if you're operating something 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 the convinced 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 and technology can be a dangerous trend and one mishandled can strike in disastrous fashion we have always seen this with these what they call to project disasters you remember last year there was a massive oil spill in the gulf of mexico again we have a very competent famous company that seem to know what it was doing but they simply haven't planned for conjuncture conditions that would create a disaster so this is the human condition we 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 a massive concrete sume called the circle for against 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 ascii art see. more of in the humanitarian issues over the disaster in japan let's talk about the economic damage now that we're going to new year with our business update. that's right time for the business our days and worst economic collapse in its history has become a reality as it faces the first crippling crisis initial estimates already put the country's laws as a one hundred seventy billion dollars but some experts say the actual laws could be much more although the quake's fury bypass japan's industrial heartland the shock waves have been felt throughout the business sector or power supply is critical in

the country firms like about toyota nissan have had to stop production because with eleven not japan's fifty four power stations out of action they are running out of energy carmakers should builders and technology companies worldwide are short of supplies after the disaster transportation is also badly affected ports 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 refineries is having a knock on effect with queues forming at the petrol pumps. now let's have a little cull 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 to oppose major companies could be hit the nikkei closed just under eleven percent down and its second slump in two days hong kong sank saying those

losses closing the session down three percent increase losses were compounded by japan's prime minister statements that are substantial amount of radiation was leaking from the fukushima nuclear power plant. its best sea of red in europe on the back of an exulting that swept across tokyo in the aftermath of another explosion at the troubled for the sheema nuclear plant frankest texas regaining some losses and large time trading but is still losing just over four percent and would say is now. car behind down two percent the south. and here in russia both the r.t.s. and the miles itself the government tracking global also soft and largely ignoring the japanese crisis on monday energy shares and losing ground on decreasing oil prices let's have a look at some individual show moves most banking shares are down bulls burbank and peter would be leading the full both are down the last three percent on the mite so it's bucking the trend as draws clinical around two percent of the r.t.s.

that's after a russian metal holding metal you first started close 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 announced a one hundred eighty three billion dollars into its financial institutions on monday to help stabilize the country's economy but chris with her chief strategist also you believe that more money is still been made it and the action will inevitably weaken 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 are going to have the world's second largest financial reserves of a considerable amount of financial firepower that they can inject into the economy as that money comes into the economy that i believe will lead to more sustained

weakness in the yen this year and probably that will be a benefit or be beneficial in the economy tries to revive its export business tries to budge economy a weak currency is always a good stimulus and there's additional 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 this then that could have a competitive. competitive pressure on chinese exports as against that the one we could certainly see the one strengthening as a relatively safer currency and perhaps in this environment and that my pen lead to some trade tensions. and cheese closely monitoring the situation and bring you the reaction of the global markets or anyone else time.

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