the critical number situation in japan goes from bad to worse is a sudden spike in radiation levels stand we all want to win the stricken people she was our plants. while the japanese government says there's no immediate danger or stumble track record of telling the truth about pas nuclear programs means that more never once been the feds. suture plans nuclear concerns good stuff whole asia pacific region on alert for the potential fallout that could reach beyond wide and leave its mark for years to come.

the government forces in libya retaking even more lands on the rebels while those countries in the international community are against imposing a no fly zone to the united nations it states it's just our search. and it is the japanese shares have rebounded sharply after two consecutive days of decline with the nikkei index currently up six percent more in twenty minutes. and see this is r.t. live from moscow japan made losing control of the focus even nuclear power plants after a rise in radiation levels meant attempts to stabilize the situation have been haunted smoke has been seen that coming from the side which is already been hit with explosions and fires since friday's mega quake it isn't taking for us. this morning

fire broke out at the fourth reactor at the plants. seemingly on its own about half an hour later however the even hundred workers which for every hour originally had plans to remains and they were pulled out later or only earlier today because. of radiation levels which again were too high you also have to keep in mind that a third reactor is there also is also posing some danger it's. containing that broke and gave a crack as actually in the case of a missile of the first three apps or ways you know that radiation levels are skyrocketing all across the country in fact. it's how in just a little over a hundred miles north of tokyo radiation levels exceeding three hundred times their normal amount we also know that radiation levels in tokyo. nurtured by those who are arriving at the airport since this morning they were about eleven times. the

amount that is where it's being normal or safe likely i'd work but it is over just a hundred kilometers away from nuclear power on the surface it would be normal but from what i've seen the last five days or so since. it's not in japanese culture to panic not to run around. under current t.v. and it's a different kind of you know because we. can see and hear the threats these the radiation i can't see smell it visible and me so now it's a different kind of threat just this morning i spoke to a young japanese couple with just a ten day old. boy and they were actually from sendai me when i would be struggling to move until now because the market was too. fast as they can and this is just. more evidence of people you don't trust the. trust the advice still the

radiation is spreading to greater area outside people don't trust the government and they want to get out of this queue of people is a kilometer long they're trying to stockpile what food is left in sendai most shelves are empty now the people here are getting ready to hide fearing an invisible killer radiation explosions at the fukushima daiichi power plant the country on the cusp of nuclear meltdown one damaged reactors outer casing and the final two reactors have now lost cooling capability to radiation levels peaks near the plant at four hundred times the amount normally absorbed in a year if it is it will spread across the country. it's the same information and footage being broadcast on every channel you have just a guess many things to look for them in other places you can get them in the japanese sources there's some very strict censorship which doesn't let as understand the true picture and that's not helping. well residents prepared to go

to ground for news crews of fleeing this team from the zealand is heading for the gun to airport but flights from there it's a sucker in tokyo are already fully booked for the next two days the exodus has begun here on the west coast. has already closed they won't open for another eight hours people are already turning up trying to get on the next available flight out of the country such desperation to escape. we have to wait until morning to get the next one to have a bar of what we have to wait outside but we will because we want to escape the radiation some though have nowhere to run to this was once a village those who lived here are returning to find there's simply nothing left the devastation just goes on and on. more than half a million people have been left homeless their belongings swallowed up and spat out by the tsunami relief workers are searching for survivors all along japan's ravaged

coast what's now a sea of daybreak fifteen thousand have already been rescued but over seven thousand the still missing and some parts haven't even been reached yet over two and a half thousand relief centers are still packed and will be for several weeks it's cold and uncomfortable but this is one of the few places these people can get food and shelter huge parts of the country have been completely wiped out by the threat of nuclear meltdown means they could still be more to come after bennett r.t. the gutter japan. that's a very so you bring is that as the package but what's the situation like where you are panicking capital. well i wouldn't say that people are running around screaming in horror at the moment but you were asked to notice a certain. eerie quiet in the air there is not that many people out on the streets those who are in the street are wearing masks and they have their hair covered.

some of the elementary cautions which are said to be somewhat helpful in the case. but in the case of radiation exposure some food has been right off the shelves if you go to any could mean store you'll see that most of them are essentially mostly empty people are being told by the government that the current radiation levels are either acceptable or there are flows and health however it is evidence shows as history shows the japanese government has exactly proven to be always always always trustworthy and everything that it does work in forth to the public should actually be checked here's the report and. with reactors at the fukushima nuclear power plants having gone up in smoke fears about a possible meltdown loom large japanese authorities give assurances there is no imminent threat to tokyo residents but past seven suggests they are not to be

trusted completely for many years and you can the street and the regulators in japan and also in every society every country go preach nuclear power you find consistently that there's a lack of transparency a lack of. maybe they just think i think. that's too much information why should we provide the information so i think the situation in japan is absolutely critical in fact just five years ago the plant operator tokyo electric power company or tepco admitted to falsifying temperature readings for cooling materials advocacy much as early as in one nine hundred eighty five and with the country now facing a major disaster the government will be careful in choosing its words. i don't want to do is going to happen a good job. of course that people are trying to take care of. holes in the accountable to other countries and other nations. in two thousand to

the governments disclose that at least twenty nine cases of damage to the reactor had been swept under the carpet that incident led that because presidents and some senior officials to quit in scandal in two thousand and three seventeen to have cooperated plants or ordered to be shut down again because the operator lied about what was happening at these sites so when the japanese officials put on a somber face but give assurances everything's fine not everyone's convinced particularly when the country's already got enough other problems to deal with if you don't have the emergency resources if your employees corporate been. and the further you go away from the reactor the more difficult the more diverse the population settlements are the more difficult it is to evacuate you don't want to panic the public to get them to so provoke you wait i may be on with him we put themselves in harm's way this one thousands of lives are on the line such

a policy can easily be counterproductive there is a growing distrust among people in japan that the information they're receiving is now informing us to the extent that we would like to win it doesn't reduce interest rates or the more uncertain when we can't trust the information. as it stands to parent appears to be balancing on the brink of a nuclear meltdown and though the official version of events implores everyone to stay calm history shows not all their words could be taken at face value in tokyo it goes r.t. . and i've been reporting there from japan for us meanwhile rescue operations in the country continue following the quake and tsunami actual death tolls now risen to thirty seven hundred forty that final figure could be around eleven health and. well you only have to look back at the chernobyl disaster

to see the threats of nuclear contamination pensive and any poisonous fallout from before it also is far and wide a danger in several neighboring countries and as a potential disastrous consequences could bring in may find some of the images and how to stop. these are just some of the terrible example some what radiation can teach humans. to protect transit in shortly after the explosions at the fukushima nuclear plant the japanese government moved more than two hundred thousand people to twenty kilometers. emissions and there are a complex but despite such measures again adly facts of nuclear emission could go nashbar there. either as lord radioactive isotopes go up into the atmosphere or forming radioactive clouds and it depends on the winds how far of all gold before

poisonous rains will pour down what will happen anyway would it back in one thousand nine hundred eighty six after the chernobyl disaster in salvi cheap crane clouds covered in two thousand kilometer distance and his days reaching this swedish case in the north with contamination eventually extending as far west as britain and ireland in the worst case scenario today just about every country in the asia pacific region who'd be a fact it including far east and russia. if the wind is strong and blows from the west they'll be both koreas in china but if it's a south western direction then tile in malaysia and mine more or suffer war in asia in the philippines if it's in the south russia's far east in the corals are very likely to be in danger. or with up near. it's too hard to predict exactly what's going to happen and actually save the basename to do to protect people. all

the potential threat and given the chance to track and sounds. the public in japan think of perma lazier and the philippines where sounds phone text messages warning that about possible acid rain even though some are more than five thousand kilometers from the fukushima nuclear plant people have heard of the oysters tain doors if it rains and to take protection as rainfall may burn skin damage hair can cause cancer but after charles will pollute through hours and underground waters as well as contaminate saw oil when there is no chance of avoiding the consequences and the time it will take for pretty active materials to finally decay will take generations. roof russian r t moscow. nuclear power. greenpeace have it come says even when workers can get access to the control

room with her she replied the times they face coupled with the conditions they have to do it in means producing that success is impossible. the situation at this moment remains critical and it will remain critical several days and there's only fifty people allowed on the plans of the moms and they're working fifteen minutes shifts which is which is very little and they have to work very many things by hand because remote control installations have gone down the main operating room. because of the radiation levels they're working under extremely difficult circumstances to try to prevent the worst from the worst we do it which would indeed be a core that is completely drawing and that would would lead to a meltdown it is very early now to predict what would happen because it would depend on how much of the material would get out it would be untold what the sea streams would be what the wind would be what is certain is that the spread of this material in the air would not go as far as that we've seen with the reason for that

is that it will not be boosted as high in the air because there is no graphite in it like lichen in the reactor and that means that most of the sea would fall nearer to the nuclear power station but there it would create larger havoc than we've seen it in the case of. coming out met sound and sit down with. and it's happened how things he says his espresso. in japan. the problem is that they may have water levels rising and falling they may have fewer exposure and we know that they have hurt fewer exposed which is produce the the reaction the reaction between the more. than the war of that produces the hydrogen so very very certainly had some fuel ramage they may well have fuel ceramic fuel pellets that are now also circulating through the core and that will be clogging up channels and generally generally changing the configuration of the geometry of the core and unless the reactor and worse the reactor engineers know

what is going on they're liable to do something wrong. well if you're in the affected areas you can always share your experiences by locking onto what they spoke it helps to send our to news hours of one word or a page also have the latest videos analysis and news on the situation in japan as well as all our other top stories see if you know something that you think the rest of the world should hear please don't log on to our seniors on facebook. to other news now in libya colonel gadhafi forces have gained more ground retaking rebel held city major world powers are so far dismissed imposing a fly zone over the conflict strip in the country the issues still to be discussed by the u.n. well paula fear is in the capital tripoli. gadhafi forces have broken through the last major in line of resistance before the town of being ghazi which is the heart

of the rebel stronghold on tuesday in a massive land and air assault duffy's forces took over the town of which is just some one hundred fifty kilometers away from being ghazi what this means is eckard of his forces are now in full control of the coastal strip between these two towns you need to remember that it was only ten days ago that were able forces had control of almost half this country they were in control in the east and they also had control of civil cities in the way it's now gadhafi forces have managed to reclaim most of that land a circle of reclaimed all the cities in the waist except for misrata in the closing statement of the g. eight ministers meeting in paris on tuesday there was no mention of the no fly zone mission and france remain at the forefront of calling for to be incremented over libya while there are several countries including the united states germany russia and china which has veto power at the u.n. security council they are opposed to it now the representatives from france and

britain and live in on lebanon acting on behalf of the arab league who met on saturday in cairo they have called an endorser a no fly zone those representatives have drafted and united nations resolution calling for to be implemented that discussion was held behind closed doors on issues they speaking after their u.n. security council meeting the which it presented have said that they had been a lot of discussion and he did at mit that they were divisions he said that a lot of questions were still being asked questions such as how would it be implemented and would be participating in it that discussion will continue today reinstate nice intially the draft resolution is looking for a ban on all flights over libya is basically excluding humanitarian aid missions it also calls for restricting implementation of arms embargoes adopted in resolution one line stephen over two weeks ago at the same time it also calls for the present prevention of foreign. no he's being able to came to libya the whole goal of this

last recession so no size so he's trying to take the lives of civilians but many people here feel that if indeed it is approved it will be much she late too little too late and also it would open the door possibly for an excuse a feature you saw an intervention. of france's haithem officially supporting the libyan opposition has its paris in an embarrassing a position says mark and seems that the thing professor of international relations at bill came to divest in sacking they don't look at. how. it could promise and burden of the coalition. who. are going to. come here and what went on with our special forces mission. if we want to intervene because of the rise of discipline we're going to go. on the who are going to be who do we want to and we know maybe we can all agree

international community including new york and i want to go. so let's face it it would be our. very original route and so we have a very. arrest is continuing elsewhere in the arab world and bahrain where the king has declared a three month state of emergency riot police have launched an assault on protesters . have been overwhelmed by the number of injured throughout the weeks on wrath and later in the day are things hostile program to save our country and protesting against the regime's really get what they want when there were elections. for the people you know in the palestinian territories hamas and islam is still classified as a terrorist organization one so and this is i'm not trying to say that people should not have the royce be heard but i think it's important to keep in mind that these

words which have a connotation to western ears do not necessarily mean the same thing they're sure that people want power i mean what is really. and that's what i why we had let me jump in this is cross talk about what i disagree with if hamas wins it should has been given the chance to do it i mean this not just because it's an islamist in fact it's an edgier the biggest mistake was in ninety nine when this illness one and there was a military intervention that served the country into a cycle of violence and there is the same in palestine i must warn and the word should have accepted it instead there were things accepted. without coming up in just a few bag of time right now there will be. welcome

to the business update japanese stocks have recovered after two days of heavy losses we'll have more on that in just a moment where other sectors of the japanese economy continue to suffer in the aftermath of the disaster consumers in japan have george shelves and feel the lack of distribution of food and other goods many companies still have production suspended as the power supply remains critical in the country one of the main japanese car producers toyota says that it's already sees a production loss of forty thousand cars meanwhile worldwide manufacturing chains

are suffering from shortages of supplies from japan. but chappies economy is strong enough to sustain side effects that's according to one of russia's leading economists. depends there's already in trouble but generally if you if you give you. the current account balance if you look good there sort of position and general germany's economy is pretty healthy and what we're talking about is no recourse so that it construction which will use in basic terms it's a physical cause it's not a matter at all for the call economy melting down or the financial system melting down the grid in and out of supply short i think one could compare it to the drop in the summer of two thousand and ten in russia i think we should be reasonably sure the japan use economy as a whole and year will remain will remain on track. let's see how the asian markets

are performing so far japanese shares have rebounded sharply after two consecutive days of the crime with the nikkei index currently up six percent the nikkei is. there the bank of japan helped the growth pumping another forty three and then dollars into the financial markets the injection comes after the central plains and now lost cash imports of over two hundred eighty billion dollars closely whether hong kong or things saying is going to one percent down at the moment on concerns that china may suffer from japanese economic downturn. and here in russia the markets will open in an hour's time and to be our test and of my assess closed in the road on tuesday joining the global selloff both uses little more than one and a half percent energy shares losing ground on decreasing world prices. and all eyes of international investors are on how the situation in japan guinea from alpha

capital believes tragic about this country will continue to push the markets. if a couple of weeks ago investors are watching their macroeconomic another. economic recovery from a growth perspective nobby are watching the japanese problem so i think it will push of the market but on the other how i would we should move kat is. going to try to search the car going to some of the sectors which i like to see benefit from for the recovery of the japanese economy. and with the japanese car giants like toyota honda nissan closing their factories market watchers fear an overall downturn in the water industry but if on board ship it or assisting young things the major impact on the global auto industry won't last for long i don't expect to have a major negative impact on the overall industry and still globally

speaking there are a number of. other utilized capacities elsewhere and even within japan yes there is a momentary disruption for a few days however i don't think that this will this will have a big overall impact. japanese electronic companies with closed factories have just wrapped its connected production chains of high tech products worldwide whole with . jason partners consulting believes retail prices surged will not rise significantly. your point a window is just going to japan is the main producer of dynamic and flash memory chips which are commonly used in mobile phones computers and laptops so a drop in production of these chips may lead to a deficit of certain high tech goods and speculative price growth however even in the worst scenario a retail price growth exceed ten to fifteen percent. perhaps top of business

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