it's condition critical in all six reactors that japan's stricken nuclear power plant cooling systems failing and threats of a nuclear meltdown and rising to the highest level since the explosions at the facility began. signs of a growing distress among the people of japan as fears rice your authority is not telling the whole truth on the situations getting out of control that doesn't produce panic it just makes people all the more uncertain when believe they can't trust for the information they're being given. and the death toll from friday's devastating earthquake and tsunami climbs to nearly three thousand where the

thousands more considered to still be missing. and the nuclear drama unfolding in japan problems experts worldwide to question schuman reliance rather and over reliance on technology that often proves more dangerous than helpful. very well welcome to you with r.t. arrived from moscow japanese officials confirmed that a radioactive materials have leaked into the atmosphere following a fire at reactor number four the fukushima power plant but fire a section of damaged an area used to store spent nuclear fuel the situation at all six reactors you said to be critical after the only two remaining cooling systems failed following type of asserting quake and tsunami but a blast at the facility in number two. this morning has reportedly damaged the

vessel of the reactor it's stoking fears of a nuclear meltdown which were already high and the reactor explosions began the company that owns the plant has reportedly withdrawn over seven hundred workers leaving only fifty to deal with disaster engineers are using misty water to cool the reactors in an attempt to avert a nuclear meltdown i think i've heard many reports from about one hundred kilometers from the station itself. this whole car and treat seems is on edge because it seems like we could be on the verge of a nuclear catastrophe now there have been two explosions at the fukushima power plant today so far and calling that second one there are really serious fears with major radiation leaks now just recently changed 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 high for warning levels and so it seems to be around one million or so around half that now but it does seem like the radiation levels are decreasing however the number of foreign news crews i've spoken and to today and a number of experts and foreigners living is simply don't believe what the japanese if government is saying in general with so many. from those who live here and i've been doing so for a number of years and for what they say is they don't really trust the information they receive they think every reading through the light reading between the lines and from what i mean the public interest people saying that they indoors that it's sort of veiled by. get away if you can and a number of people leaving atlanta it's increasing the acts that seems to have

begun. 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 you get me out on the west coast because i'm with a team from new zealand who are heading for the airport but all the flights out. to tokyo and osaka are actually booked up for the next two days so they're on on a waiting it's a two day it seems like all the other airports are full of people trying to lead down the streets of sendai this morning you can see the concern because they were queuing up short so still still have food left ready to stockpile because they fit the radiation cloud could seem strange to them they're just one hundred kilometers north she meant. to stay indoors for a long period of time if that radiation cloud does brant. i've been of there reporting our dr robert jacobs from the hiroshima peace as judging by how the situation is unfolding it seems the government has little control over this nuclear

crisis. 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 yet every day we see this situation getting further and further out of control each day we wait here in japan to a much more grim situation than the day before and it's it's hard to imagine i think that 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 this iteration is very much difficult to control there's no doubt about it you're 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 you had three aftershocks over seven point zero on the richter scale difficult so in a sense what you have is you have people trying to repair an automobile damaged by that's moving at one hundred miles an hour without brakes or steering so the work that might be done that might be effective is getting increasingly problematic. now you know with r.t. and i from moscow and if you are by any chance in the affected areas and always share your experiences by logging onto our facebook account or just enter r.t. news as one word and our page also has the latest videos analysis and news on the situation in japan as well as all of our other top stories so if you know something that the you think the rest of the world should be hearing please log on to our seniors on our facebook page. well higher than normal levels

of radiation have been detected in the japanese capital with your thought he is admitting there is an imminent risk to health correspondent and when you go to show his interlocutor. thank you very nice novels have very i have three would have been raised not significant only and are not presenting any need to residents of example capital of course at the same time you have to remember that the levels. around the ponds are such that thousands of people have already been evacuated and tens of thousands have been told to keep their doors and windows shut and do not leave their homes so at some point there were. five radio activity levels of just north of tokyo and. 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 very deep reaches 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 so of me actually rising as well we also know that. more than one hundred thousand. have been released by i.a.e.a. and sent off to the areas affected most twenty five hundred people have been confirmed dead thousands are missing so the number is probably going to the number it's going to change in the next couple of days at this point of course the main concern is with the possible. nuclear meltdown and that is what everybody is keeping a close eye on but of course the the rescue efforts are still continuing there of course trees 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 come to the city bursting with lights and exhibit he there is hardly anybody out on the streets right now with people that are out there all wearing face masks. also there have been reports of also shortages of foods have been reported people are increasingly brined such things as water based products some of the things out in securing off the shelves but then again they're doing it very orderly fashion and there's no telling obviously something is in the air so to speak and it's very easy since probably theory under prevention that people are still waiting for what's going to happen next and he's going to be reporting right there was paramount you can always get an update on the latest news concerning japan's devastating earthquake and tsunami you can do so on the arts twitter page and the information there now currently the number of those confirmed dead stands at least three thousand but there have been so much positive

stories to emerge an elderly man and woman were rescued ninety six i was after the earthquake struck you can follow all the latest developments on twitter account that is r t underscore. in russian regions close to japan residents and services are on high alert this despite saying the danger of a possible radioactive cloud reaching the area is minimal as the wind is expected to go towards the pacific ocean however some tourists foreign workers are leaving the area our correspondent. is in the region one hundred kilometers north of. and merchant says officials for this according region have in turn supplied checks for radiation levels here in the civilian region we talk to representatives of the ministry they showed us a car which they equipped with professional guide our meters which will measure radiation levels at different places around the city so be much and says ministry

here assure us that as a tuesday morning there is no increase in radiation levels and there is no cause for the residents to piney woods which. in the worst case scenario locals can make . home there's no threats to the health of the suckling people radiation readings are at a normal level. meanwhile russia's defense ministry says that it is ready to sun's out its personnel from the coral islands any time soon this is the close calls of this region to north japan and also sales of io genes have rocketed in pharmacies across the city obviously people want to make sure that they are well propounds in case that there is a radioactive emission threat from what we know from people we've spoken to is that they are not quite sure whether the japanese are playing down the threat of a nuclear catastrophe or not planes leave the international apple or shell views necessarily according to the shadow 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 unknown and a lot to cannes on the wind it is very crucial so what people should be closely monitoring now is weather for cos it will take a radioactive cloud if there is an explosion inside the core of a nuclear reactor less than a day to reach these poss of russia. now you can always follow lottie on twitter to find out what you can do to help japanese families overcome with a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami and a russian family was living in a safe proximity to japan have already offered to accommodate japanese children caught up in the quake has asked them and of course all of these developments and many many more are to use twitter account. but moscow's expanding its aid to japan with the number of russian emergency workers

involved in a rescue operations expected to reach about a hundred and eighty in the next few days the country is also boosting its humanitarian aid and energy supplies i think is cutting another one has more from the russian capital. russia has sent a number of emergency ministry personnel to japan 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 shut in to get at least two weeks there everything is. substance basically necessary to help people that are in. that assistance or so. survivors that may still be out i was on the to i was left moscow yesterday that's monday heading that. egypt and there was a person out here specifically with that the radiation that septic areas so all in

all the agency ministry is expecting at least three people working in japan doing everything necessary everything in their power to give assistance where it may be needed as russia knows firsthand experience how difficult it is and how horrifying him is to deal with the aftermath of the radiation. accident at the german hour as devastating force and many mistakes have already been gleaned from that experience dealing with very fearless and perhaps not everything is under human control as my colleague success came here that 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 good it was they had very poor knowledge of the physics of the reactor they

knew the manual and when to push it that's it the nothing in the reactor physics personnel drove the reactor into a street it was out of control well the authority. he's 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 the commitment of a new trip. as a remission free will this was something unseemly for a nuclear power station with flames and smoke over it was very poor of a century on history seems to be repeating in japan despite the or thora these claims there are of having the situation under control the fukushima nuclear power plant has already seen explosions and that's despite advanced safety systems which the chernobyl reactor never had been we look towards the earthquake reaction was completely false he means. the reactors happened to

be pretty and this is very an exception. i mean. if you see the decent interest 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 that technology is dead he told. the society the government 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 to convince themselves that lives 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 overreliance and talking all of you can be a dangerous friend and one mishandled can strike in disastrous fashion and we have always seen this with these what they call technology like disasters we remember last year there was a vast 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 for conjuncture conditions it would create a disaster so this is the human condition we we simply are able it seems to handle these technologies were probably not ready for the nightmare that the chernobyl reactor became was eventually sealed off within a massive concrete sume called the circle forget the catastrophe provided valuable

lessons in how to deal with a 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 russian ski r.t. the meantime it got a whole cloth from the into hutto world economy and international relations he says the consequences of the nuclear crisis in japan could affect the world on a global scale. russia has done a great job fighting the. disaster actionable and then fighting the consequences first of all the fallout that happened across some of the russian regions and russia can offer a lot of expertise in fighting those consequences and also you know russians understand very well the magnitude of the disaster and you know often as in the situation for all the trashing prime minister vladimir putin immediately offered all of the little this instance to japan colleagues and even the shipment gets the

amount of radiation being released now and the amount of radiation that will be released in the coming future is so great that actually all global the fact that you know the disaster chernobyl were only one poll you know it was affected you know this really should cover the whole global so the magnitude all the loot disaster cannot be predicted now but definitely it's going to be one of the worst nuclear disasters in gold history. on our paramount you can always be on top of the developments in japan we are twitter page and the latest reports are just engineers working at the fukushima plant have been unable to appall water into a vital area one of the critical reactors understatements could have a devastating outcome a very minute instant update on our twitter account that is a party under school. assignment associate professor of international christian university in tokyo believes that people are now in

grave danger of exposure. the people who will have the most danger will be the people who are working to stop this disaster at the moment that is the emergency workers and military personnel around the plant now they will be likely receiving quite high doses of radiation and the rest of the country and perhaps the world should start me feel quite grateful to the work that they are doing to stop this meltdown a situation in the north is very bad and i believe yes the government will require help from foreign experts from the international atomic energy agency from foreign governments who can supply material such as fuel and expert advice perhaps even helicoptering and new physical generators and and diesel generators and pumps. that japan has asked of the international atomic energy agency to help the country

deal with its nuclear crisis as it comes amid concerns of similar incidents taking place in europe which has many nuclear plants similar to that in a new culture he's accountable to reports now from what russell's. it comes as the emergency response meeting here in brussels has been raised from expert to ministerial level that means all twenty seven e.u. energy ministers have been called to brussels to really called in its own emergency response team to the e.u. energy commissioner says we need to see if we can provide an energy policy for the e.u. youth avoids nuclear energy of course it's the flu it's really a change from the traditional energy policy of many countries in the european union which was to increase its nuclear capacity is because italy for example is a big e.u. country which is starting from scratch a big nuclear program france belgium here also big nuclear programs but now there

is increasing concern about the safety obviously of nuclear reactors 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 to give you a flavor of the sentiment here in brussels let me just quote from the portuguese a state secret if the environment he 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 plants across the european union and now conducting stress tests to see whether a similar accident could happen in the european union. reporting right there now as the situation in japan evolves well as nuclear powers have to rethink their policies to prevent similar catastrophes in the future. richard thornburgh the former governor of pennsylvania during the infamous three mile island accident in

one hundred seventy nine his interview is coming up in about ten minutes time but here's a preview. certainly in the united states i know and i suspect in other areas where plants have been built anywhere near. but they're rethinking their process now they don't want to become another japan in that sense they're all going to stop and take a deep breath and look at the consequences of this when they're fully available. i don't think they're going to abandon their present commitment to nuclear power but i think that represents a step backward in terms of their desire to build more nuclear plants. that interview is coming your way shortly in line with all the latest details on japan and the disaster out there you can always log on to our facebook page or on twitter page as well now for more on the economic damage from the catastrophe here's to me.

thanks very much rory concerns about the state of japan's economy have been rising as the extent of the devastation becomes clear initial estimates already put the country's laws as one hundred seventeen billion dollars but some experts say the actual loss could be even more although the quakes fury bypassed japan's industrial heartland the shock waves have been felt throughout the business sector power supply is critical in the country firms like tar should. have had to stop production because with eleven of japan's fifty four power stations out of action they're running out of energy carmakers should build the technology companies worldwide are short of supplies after the disaster transportation is also badly affected 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 refineries is having a knock on effect with queues forming at petrol pumps

a. second look at the stock market starts with asia's reaction the massive sell off on the tokyo stock exchange and then you go on to say investors were trying to guess how bad the japan's major companies could be here the nikkei closed down ten and a half percent hong kong's hang seng tackle those losses tracked them closing the session down three percent the increase to losses were compounded by japan's prime minister's statement that quote substantial amount of radiation was leaking from the fukushima nuclear power plant. what we have seen today is just a over reaction to what's going on in japan and the market has already priced is this something worse happened in the rest of that we yesterday when i thought the situation could be it's a bottom but when i came back to bill sr the situation gets worse. if those kind of vicious cycle starts well this is the people. and the nobody knows how

fast the fall. european stocks of fall and sharply amid fears that japan's earthquake may undermine supply chains for global manufacturers european auto stocks dived with the poorest performing for a bounce in late morning trading. dags is down by a whopping five percent or so is not far behind two point six percent lower hitting a fresh green month low. oil prices have extended losses deepening crisis and continues to scare investors away from risky assets markets are also concerned about the possible short term decline demand from the world's largest exporter economy w c i and brant three and four percent lower respectively on the back of that russia the r.t.s. and the nice excel also two point six and one point nine percent respectively there largely ignoring the japanese crisis on monday but today that it's taken its toll

let's take a look at some of the individual stocks most banking shares are down was burbank v.t.v.m. leading the ball down two point three and two and a half percent respectively bucking the trend still is norris no call itself one percent that's off the russian metal holding metal invest said it was planned that it was planning to buy shares in russia's largest nickel mining company the damage incurred by japan's nuclear crisis is causing an energy squeeze in the country from unicredit bags that japan will be forced to become more dependent on energy imports . the major impact on the commodities market i guess would come from the restructuring of the japanese nuclear industry it is facing major constraints on the further development than even the construction so that we might be talking about p.v. actually reduction of the japanese nuclear energy industry as

a whole and that respect these countries might be forced to be dependent on the five nuclear gas suppliers from also possibly from russia japan and we'll need a lot of construction materials a lot of from materials the suppliers of those materials those countries or companies which have them in abundance my truly benefit from this kind of rehabilitation because such an effort so keep that. right us all from the business team for now rory's next with a recap of what's going on and japan and around the world and just because. of the little bit with.

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