invoice face to face with the news makers on. the. above. the grid of all nuclear situation in japan goes from bad to worse there's a sudden spike in radiation levels i mean start for we've drawn from this struck in fukushima power plant. and all the japanese valves and since there's no immediate danger to transcribe all of telling the truth about cough nuclear problems means not everyone is convinced. also japan's nuclear concerns would stop a whole agency for a region on that for the whole album that could reach far and wide and leave its mark in years to come. and japanese shares with foundation sharply on wednesday after two consecutive days of the with the nikkei finishing up five point seven

percent probably more like. government forces in libya will be taking even more lands on the rebels most countries in the international community are against imposing a no fly zone to the united nations is statements discussed it's. a very warm welcome to you this is our live from moscow now japan may be losing control of the fukushima nuclear power plant after a rise in radiation levels but attempts to stabilize the situation has been halted with the government's top spokesman said one of the key reactors containment vessels is feared to have broken and radioactive material leaked out i mean it is in take a four. this morning fire broke out at the fourth reactor at the plant's. extinguished

so why seemingly on its own about half an hour later however i did eat hundred workers which is where we were originally at the plant fifty remains and they were pulled out later or at least earlier today because. radiation levels which again were too high we also have to keep in mind that a third reactor is also all supposing some dangerous. containment vessel broke and gave a crack as actually to the considerateness all of the first reactor and we do know that radiation levels are skyrocketing all across the country in fact. it's just a little over a hundred miles north of tokyo radiation levels and seeing three hundred times their normal amount we also know that radiation levels in tokyo measured by those who are reading at the airports and this morning they were about eleven times. the amount that is the sort of the normal or safe likely i've heard that it is over

just a hundred kilometers away from any player power of prayer on the surface everything to be normal but from what i've seen in the last five days or so since arriving in japan it's not in japanese culture to panic not to run around in a curious kind of constraint is a under conscious thanks our t.v. and it's kind of just this morning i spoke to a young japanese couple who had just a ten day old. boy and they were actually from sendai and they were in sendai when the earthquake struck me until now because the muslims in. the tokyo as fast as they can and this is just another. more evidence of people who don't trust the government and trust the advice that the radiation is spreading into a greater area outside. this queue people he's a collage of trying to stop it is like sendai.

the people here are getting ready to hide fearing and invisible killer radiation explosions at the fukushima daiichi power plant the country on the cusp of nuclear meltdown one damaged reactors out a casing and the final two reactors have now lost cooling capability to radiation levels peaks near the plants at four hundred times the amount normally absorbed in a year there are fears because spread across the country. it's the same information and footage being broadcast on every channel you have just a guess many things for them and other places you can get them in the japanese sources there's some very steep censorship which doesn't let us understand the true picture and that's not helping. residents prepare to go to ground for a news crews of fleeing this team from the zealand is heading for the gun point of flights from there to sucker in tokyo are already fully booked for the next two days the exodus has begun here on the west coast. has already closed.

already turning up. on the next available flight out of the country such as. we have to wait until morning to get the next flight to hardwire 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 debris fifteen thousand have already been rescued but over seven thousand are still missing 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 artsy the carthage of. the very same. package but what's the situation. is there. carol. well no i wouldn't say that people are running around screaming in horror at the moment but you were out so you know it is certainly 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 oh it's as though some of the unanswerable questions which are said to be somewhat helpful in the case. or in the case of radiation exposure some food has been right off the shelves if you go to any communion story you will see that most of them are

essentially mostly empty people are being told by the government that the current radiation levels are either acceptable rape their parents do not pose a danger to help however this is evidence shows as history shows the japanese government has exactly proven it to be always always to always trustworthy and everything that it does say what holds forth to the public should actually be checked for each year's report and that with reactors at the fukushima nuclear power plant having gone up in smoke fears about a possible military loom large japanese authorities give assurances there is no imminent threat to tokyo residents but past evidence suggests they're not to be trusted completely over many years the nuclear industry and the regulators in japan but also in every society every country to reach nuclear power you find consistently that there's a lack of transparency a lack of will. maybe just think i think we can but 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 plans of greater tokyo electric power company or tepco its message to pull some fine temperature readings for cooling materials at fukushima as early as in one nine hundred eighty five and with the country now facing in major disaster the government will be careful in choosing. it's words. i think what is going to happen in the job is going. out of all of course little people they're trying to take care of. two other countries and other nations which starts in two thousand to a government disclosed that at least twenty nine cases of damage to the reactor had been swept under the carpet that incident because presidents and some senior officials to quit in scandal in two thousand and three seventeen tepco operated

plants 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 input structure has been destroyed and the further you go away from the reactor the more difficult the more the worse the population settlements are the more difficult it is to back where you don't want to chronicle probably to get them to so for evacuate a maybe unwittingly put themselves in harm's way but when thousands of lives are on the line such a policy can easily be counterproductive there is a growing distrust among people in japan and that information that we're receiving is not informing us to the extent that we would like to and it doesn't reduce panic

it just makes it all the more uncertain when we can't trust the information they're being given as it stands to parent appears to be balancing on the brink of a nuclear meltdown and though the official version of the events implores everyone to stay calm history shows not all their words could be taken at face value in tokyo it in it goes cold r.t. . and i have a bennett reporting there from japan while meanwhile rescue operations in the country continue following of the quake and tsunami the japanese prime minister has said twenty six thousand people have been rescued so far the official death toll now within it to thirty seven hundred forty one the final figure could be almost triple dance. but you only have to see you at look back to the chernobyl disaster to see the threats of nuclear contamination poses and only poisonous fallout from the fiction of a planet could also reach far and wide in danger in several countries are these

very often arch less is the potential disastrous consequences it could bring you may find some of the images in her report disturbing. these are just some of the terrible examples of what radiation can do to humans. to protect residents shortly after the explosions at the fukushima nuclear plant the japanese government moved more than two hundred thousand people from a twenty kilometer exclusion zone around the conflicts but despite such measures the dad lee facts of nuclear emission to go much further. radioactive isotopes gotten into the atmosphere of forming radioactive clouds and a depends on the wind so far a little gold before poisonous rains will gone down but it will happen anyway. back in one thousand nine hundred eighty six after the chernobyl disaster in soviet crain clouds covered in two thousand kilometer distance and his days reach industry

just caves in the north with contamination eventually extending as far west as an island. in the worst case scenario just about every country in the asia pacific region would be in fact lead including far eastern russia. if the wind is strong and blows to the worst both careers in china but if it is south western direction then thailand malaysia and mine more will suffer or indonesia in the philippines and if it's in the south russia's far use in the corals are very likely to be in danger. but. it's too hard yeah to get exactly what's going to happen and. say the vast range you do to attack people. of the potential threat and given the chance to protect themselves the public in japan think of home lazier and the philippines sound prone text messages warning that

about possible acid rain even though some are more than five thousand kilometers from the fukushima nuclear plant people have been to the oysters tain doors if it rains and to take protection as rainfall burns average hair and cause cancer but after charles will pollute rivers and underground waters as well as contaminated soil there is no tolerance of a void in the consequences and the time it will take for radioactive materials to farley decay will take generations reason or snarky morse code on a nuclear power expert a greenpeace. eagle and work and can't get access to the control room. plan the task they face coupled with the conditions they have to do it in means predicting methinks s. isn't possible. the situation at this moment remains critical it will remain critical several days there's only fifty people allowed from the plant of the mobs

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 operator room is usable because of the radiation levels they're working under extremely difficult circumstances to try to prevent the worst from the worst which would 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 fence all the streams would be what the winds with what is certain is that the spread of this material in the air would not go as far as that we've seen with a reason for that is that it will not be boosting the air because there's no graphite in it like like any any chernobyl reactor and that means that most of the rate of fifty would fall nearer to the new preposterous station but there it would create larger havoc that we've seen it in the case of general bill. coming our next

hour we sit down with walt patterson a nuclear physicist and associate fellow a chap and house as he says his expert opinion of the situation in japan. probably is that they may have water levels rising and falling they may have few works but we know that they have had a few were exposed which has produced the the reaction the reaction between the more. metal quieting and the water that produces the hydrogen so very very certainly had some feel very much they may well have fueled ceramic fuel pellets that are now also circulating through the core and that will be calling up channels and generally generally changing the configuration with geometry of the core and unless the reactor number three reactor engineers know what is going on there are liable to do something wrong. well if you are in the affected areas you can always share your experiences by

logging onto our facebook account and r.t. news as well on a word our page also features the latest videos analysis and news on the situation in japan as well as all our other top stories if you know something you think the rest of the world to be hearing about please do log on to r.t. news on facebook. now in libya colonel gadhafi his forces have gained more ground retaking rebel held city major world powers have so far dismissed imposing a no fly zone over the conflict stricken country the ses still it's being discussed by the un wallace is in a powerful tripoli. gadhafi forces have broken through the last major line of resistance before the town of bin ghazi which is the heart of the rebel stronghold on tuesday in a massive land an air assault and off his forces took over the town of beer which is just some one hundred fifty kilometers away from being ghazi what this means

a second of his forces are now in full control of the coastal strip between these two towns we need to remember that it was only ten days ago that rebel 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 razed now gadhafi forces have managed to reclaim most of their land they certainly have 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 the u.n. security council there are opposed to it now representatives from france and britain and lebanon lebanon acting on behalf of the arab league who met on saturday in cairo they have cordoned indorsed a no fly zone those representatives have drafted a 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 british representative 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 libyan in space 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. from being able to came to libya the whole goal of this last resort lesions the no fly zone is to try and protect the lives of civilians but many people here feel that if indeed it is approved it will be too little too late and also it will open the door possibly for an excuse for an intervention. by

france and hasten officially supporting the libyan opposition has paris in an embarrassing position says mark he's a visiting professor of international relations at little kid university it's hacking. a gun and. you have. it get a grip terms of the opposition. the rebels who are in for. a term few and one time a very very special forces mission. and we want to intervene because of the rise and there's a. and if we do want to intervene and we want to and we know what maybe we can all agree international community and you're going to want to go with who. let's face it it would be our horse and. that's a very original carrier and so we have

a. i am on rest is continuing elsewhere in the arab world in bahrain where the king has to kind of three months eight emergency riot police from the woods are renewed government protesters hospitals have been overwhelmed by the number of injured throughout the weeks of time while i'm coming. debates whether the arab countries currently protesting against the regimes will really get people. when there were elections. for the people you know the palestinian territories hamas and islamic state and you know classified as a terrorist organization one so and this is i'm not trying to say that people should not have the voice 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 our thing was really it's why and that's what i why ok let me jump in this is crosstalk about why do i disagree when if hamas wins has been given that

sounds through it i mean this not just because it's an islamist in fact in that year the biggest mistake was in ninety nine to one when this time this one and there was a military intervention that drove the country into a cycle of violence and it's the same in palestine how must one and the word should have accepted it instead the words. coming up in just a few moments the economic impact of the japanese crisis and all the.

hello and a very welcome to the business bulletin japanese stalks rebounded shopping on wednesday after two days of heavy losses we'll have more on that in just a moment what other sectors of the economy continue to suffer in the aftermath of the disaster consumers in japan store shelves and feel the lack of distribution of food water and other goods many companies still have production suspended as the power supply remains critical in the country meanwhile worldwide manufacturing chains are suffering from shortages of supplies from. one of the main japanese car producers toyota says its overall production loss may reach forty thousand cars with japanese car giants like toyota honda and decent closing their factories market watchers fear an overall downturn in the auto industry but the analysts say

the major impact on the global auto industry won't last for long. i don't expect me . to feel back on the overall industry. still globally speaking there are a number of. other utilized capacities elsewhere and even within japan so yes the there is a momentary disruption for a few days however i don't think that this would have a week overall impact the japanese economy is strong enough to sustain a quake side but that's according to one of russia's leading economists. and japan's there is already in trouble but generally if you if you if you look at the current account balance if you look at the expert position in general germany's economy is pretty healthy and what we're talking about is not because so very

construction. in basic terms it's a physical cause it's not a matter all for the call economy milton go on the wall the financial system will involve being considered a bridge in the need to 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 there are dripping music on music hall and you will remain will remain on track. let's see how the asian markets are performing so far japanese shares have rebounded sharply up to two consecutive days of declines with the nikkei index finishing five point seven percent in the black behind of japan helped get them to instill confidence by pumping another forty three billion dollars into the financial markets it's the third cash injection in three days by japan central bank and in total it has allocated two hundred eighty two billion dollars to the crisis hong kong's hang seng is the temple percent are bouncing back

a bit as concerns that china may suffer from japanese downturn are easing in late clancy's trading. and european shares are also frequently losses in early traders investors hope that japan's economic downturn won't last too long if you see it's climbing a tenth of the third of the taxes are point nine percent first so i want to be going through russian markets and russia they are chosen the most existing games of about one. point eight percent respectively tracking asian games on cheap validations in japan and hopes the economy will link back to normality in true costs. let's have a look at some. all the individuals here most banking shares are posting gains burbank is up one point six the sons and she says are the main winners the solidest final prices remaining bull the title sad news from japan is pushing for gold market markets lower but the situation in libya and bahrain is supporting high oil

prices with ongoing insurgency old world food supplies out of the region. rising more than a sense and look the other is not far behind but he's eighty percent higher chris with a world that's claims by the current situation a spade bring russia. in many ways this combination of the threat of a disruption in the middle east providing sports to the old price while at the same time the risk of slower economic growth and of course disruption in japan. causing people concern about demand that combination which likely to keep the price of oil around the current in the current window is near ideal for russia because if you had a situation where the threat level of the structure were to rise too much on checked and the price of oil were to go to one twenty one thirty one forty that actually would be bad for russia but short term we get more money flows for the year you

have a negative impact on the reform process on the motivation for the government to drive reforms and everybody would worry about another two thousand and eight but in other words rising prices mean for certain collapse so that would be on the other hand if you know if we didn't have that ongoing threat level and we have these concerns over demand and economic growth we could easily see the price of oil going back to eighty dollars which would put that out but the judge is in a suitable deficit. and with high oil prices russia has managed to run a budget surplus equal to one point nine billion dollars last month which is about point seven percent of the country's g.d.p. finance minister alex accoutrements russia can even balance its budget this year if it will average is at a certain level. to achieve this we would need to take you know average price for the year which is about one hundred fifteen dollars per barrel. that wraps up the business board and for now join me in less than what else time for more business stories.

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