the critical nuclear situation in japan goes from bad to worse the sudden spike in radiation levels to suspend operations. fukushima power plant. and while the japanese government insists there's no immediate danger questionable track record of telling the truth about the past nuclear problem everyone's going for it. and japanese shares have rebounded sharply after two consecutive days of losses the nikkei finished up five point seven percent let's see how the markets worldwide. in business unless the. government forces are

taking on the. international community are against losing the no fly zone the united nations just states discuss its. worldwide news live from moscow with its. losing control of the fukushima nuclear power plant after a rise in the radiation levels meant attempts to stabilize the situation had to be halted the government's top spokesman said one of the reactors key containment vessels is fit for broken radioactive material that could be leaking out before he was how he had been using military helicopters to drop water off of the troubled reactor but later aborted the mission he was in the region says so many people are trying to flee from areas that are facing immediate danger. there's

a bubbling under current of anxiety and fear and it's a different kind of fear now because with the tsunami earthquake they can see and hear the threats this the radiation they can't see smell it is an invisible enemy so now it's a different kind of threat just this morning i've spoken to a young japanese couple with just a ten day old one. and they were actually from sendai and they were it in sendai when the earthquake struck they haven't been able to move until now this is mother was too weak and now they're heading to tokyo as fast as they can and this is just another more evidence of people who don't trust the government don't trust the advice the radiation isn't spreading into greater area outside. this queue of people he's a kilometer long they're trying to stockpile what food is left in sendai most shelves are empty now if people here are getting ready to hide fearing an invisible killer radiation explosions at the fukushima daiichi power plant could the country

on the cusp of nuclear meltdown one damage to reactors out a casing and a final two reactors have now lost cooling capability to radiation levels peaked near the plants at four hundred times the amounts normally absorbed in a year there are fears it will spread across the country while residents prepared to go to ground for a news crews are fleeing this team from the zealand is heading for the gutter. a flight from there to sucker in tokyo are already fully booked for the next two days the exodus has begun here on the west coast guard the airport has already closed for the night they won't open for another eight hours but people are already turning up to try and get on the next available flight out of the country such as their desperation to escape. we have to wait until morning to get the next light of what we have to wait outside but we will because we want to escape the radiation. some though have no it's around this was once a village those who lived are returning to find there's simply nothing left the

devastation just goes on and on. moving half a million people have been left homeless their belongings swallowed up and starts out by the tsunami relief workers are searching for survivors all along japan's ravaged coast that's now a sea of debris fifteen thousand have already been rescued but over seven thousand are 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 but the threat of nuclear meltdown means they could still be more to come after bennett artsy niigata japan. you're going to be any of the affected areas you can always share your experiences by looking on through our veins but account just as are the news that has one network our producer has the latest videos analysis on the situation

as well as a many of the top stories as well the suffering of brigs bread stories and of news headlines there. as if you think that. because of the dress the world should hear about. well meanwhile rest reparations in that country continue following the quake and tsunami japanese prime minister has said that twenty six thousand people have so far been rescued the official death toll is now risen to over thirty seven hundred thirty is one of the final figure could actually be triple our hearts one in tokyo arenacross tells us about the latest developments at fukushima nuclear plant. this morning fire broke out at the fourth reactor at the plant. extinguished was seemingly on its own about half an hour later however i did the even hundred workers which were everything we had

originally at parkland fifty remains and they were pulled out later or earlier today because. of radiation levels which again were to high waves you 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 exceeding three hundred times their normal amount we also know that radiation levels in tokyo measured by those who are arriving at the airport since this morning they were about eleven times they didn't have the medicines that are to be a normal or safe i wouldn't say those people are running around screaming in horror at the moment but you have 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 which is of some of the elementary precautions which are said to be somewhat helpful in the case. and in the case of radiation exposure some food has been right

off the shelves if you go to any could mean in store you will see that most of them are essentially mostly empty people are being told by the government that the current radiation levels are i don't accept. pose and danger to 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 which forth to the public should actually be checked here is reporting that. with reactors a difficulty she were a 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 evidence suggests they are not to be trusted completely over many years the nuclear industry and the regulators in japan

but also in every society every country that operates nuclear power you find consistently that there's a lack of transparency a lack of will. maybe just think i think originally but that's too much information why should we provide the information in fact just five years ago the plant operator tokyo electric power company or tepco it's mitta to falsifying temperature readings for cooling materials advocacy 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 think what is going to happen is the judge is going. to the people they're trying to change. to other countries and other nations. slots 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 tep cooperated 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 go pers the population settlements are the more difficult it is to evacuate you don't want to panic the public to get them to soap or back you wait i may be on within we put themselves in harm's way but when thousands of lives are on the line such a policy can easily be counterproductive 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 when it doesn't reduce

anik it just makes people all the more uncertain when we can't trust the information. as it stands japan 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 in a goes r.t. . and you can stay up to date with the very latest breaking news on the fukushima power plant at artie's twitter page you can find out what is happening in the capital so if you need gas or it's a little more than one hundred kilometers from the european power plant from there will be the last news latest news on the devastation in the country and the most interesting links you can all find out a lot a lot of the stuff that goes on our thoughts and twitter page just look at your awesome underscore. the use of energy experts say

the fukushima plant is now quite a go situation of the site is far more serious than the japanese authorities are letting on but still insists the scale of disaster is not as big as the european experts claim. the nuclear power exporter greenpeace and john have a couple says that even when workers can get access to the control rooms at the fukushima plant the task they're faced with coupled with the conditions means predicting their success is impossible. the situation at his moments remains critical and will remain critical several days there's only fifty people allowed in the plans of the mugs 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 of. the main operating room. because of high radiation levels they're working under extremely difficult circumstances to try to prevent the worst from the worst between which would indeed be

a core that is completely drawing and that would lead to a meltdown it is very early now to predict what would happen because it would depend on how much the material would get out it would be what the sea streams would be what the wind what is certain is that the spread of this material in the air would not go as far as that we've seen a channel be the reason for that is that it will not be boosted air because there is no graphite in it like like any internal reactor that means that most of the sea would fall nearer to the nuclear power station and there it would create larger havoc that we've seen it in the case of general bill. you know with our t. our next hour we sit down with walt patterson a nuclear physicist and associate fellow at chatham house as he shares his expert opinion on the situation in japan the problem 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 just produce the the reaction the reaction between the morton. metal cladding and the water but produces the hydrogen so we have certainly

had some fuel damage 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 your material in the core and unless the reaction unless the reactor engineers know what is going on they're liable to do something wrong. but turning our attention to libya where colonel gadhafi forces have gained more ground retaking many rebel held cities major world powers have so far dismissed imposing a no fly zone over the conflict stricken country and the issues that are still said to be discussed by the u.n. i don't see support asli reports from us now from the capitol hill. gadhafi forces have broken through the last major in line of resistance before the town of bin 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 agita b.-o. which is just some one hundred fifty kilometers away from being ghazi what this means is that the gulf his forces are now in full control of the coastal strip between these two towns in each 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 razed and now his forces have managed to reclaim most of their land it's ok if we came all the cities in the waist except for misrata in the closing statement of the g. eight ministers meeting in paris on cheese david was no mention of the no fly zone which in and france remain at the forefront of calling for to be implemented 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 living on acting on behalf of the arab league who met on

saturday in cairo they have cordoned indorsed a no fly zone those are presented as 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 british representative said that they had been a lot of discussion and he did admit 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 touches of hating it that discussion will continue today when stay nice intially the draft resolution is looking for a ban on all flights over libyan airspace excluding humanitarian aid missions it also calls for restricting implementation of the arms embargoes adopted in resolution one nine hundred seventy two weeks ago at the same time it also calls for the present prevention of foreign. being able to came to libya the whole goal of this draft resolution said no fly zone is to try and protect the lives of

civilians but many people here feel like if indeed it is approved it will be too little too late and also it will open the door possibly for an excuse for future foreign intervention. artie's policy reporting that well france's haste in officially supporting the libyan opposition has put paris in iraq the same position so says mark ahmed there's a visiting professor of international relations at the bill kent university and so . you have. it were promised in britain to. come through in one form a very very special forces mission we have a problem do we want to intervene because of the rise of the. i mean we do are going to be true we want to and maybe we can all agree international community

you're going to want to go. let's face it it would be all. good we need. some very operational carry out and so we have a very good. meanwhile unrest is continuing elsewhere in the arab world and right now the king has declared a three month state of emergency riot police have launched a renewed assault i think of the protestors hospital sort of overwhelmed by the number of injured throughout the weeks of turmoil and interest a few minutes time. for program about whether the arab countries currently protesting against their regimes will really get what they want. when there were elections. for the people you know in the palestinian territories hamas and islam is you know classified as a terrorist organization one so and this is i'm not trying to say that people should not have the boys to 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 you know it's why and that's when i. go ahead let me jump in this is crosstalk about choice i disagree with if hamas wins it should have been given that sounds through it i mean this not just because it's an islamist in fact it was in the geo the biggest mistake was in one thousand and two one when this illness won and there was a military intervention that searle's the country into a cycle of violence and there is the same in palestine how must one and the word should have accepted it instead the word seem to accept it. and you watch crosstalk and ten minutes time right here and finally for you this

hour there's been a warm welcome home for three explorers of now completed that five space mission soyuz spacecraft successfully landed in the snow we're steps of kazakhstan bringing its crew back to earth safely russian cosmonauts alexander. as well as nasa scott kelly from the international space station the landing was closely monitored by search and rescue services the first of a new generation soyuz craft with a digital navigation system the crew part of the ice that's meeting behind the three others who are due to retire. three months time. well another set of us sports politics should never mix but throughout the day here on r.t. we'll be showing you that it's more than just a game sports is political in ways we don't often even notice especially on the level of culture where our ideas and attitudes as a society are shaped. the

ties between professional football in the u.s. military have existed since the start of the n.f.l. back in one thousand money that relationship meant slaves during world war two and today that bond is stronger than ever and won't be unturned to a certain he'll feel he'll carry some kind of kilwinning look at recent history has taught us that sports is never just something that we just sit back. and sports always had an important social function and the history of american sports is no different. now that's coming your way later in the day here on our team but now let's get the latest business news with you. that's right time for your business update japanese stocks rebounded sharply on wednesday after two days of heavy losses we'll have more on that in just

a moment how well the other sectors of the japanese economy continue to suffer in the aftermath of the disaster consumers in japan are emptying 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 japan's nuclear crisis has strengthened concerns and safety of similar objects around the world germany has temporarily shut down seven of its orders nuclear plants adding it should abandon nuclear power sooner than all seen with the law and has suspended the approval process for three new nuclear power stations it in that report and piece b c says this they have an impact on russia as a matter of real reason nuclear programs for example in germany may in fact nuclear fuel supply from other countries including russia and a possible refusal from bulgaria and the czech republic to build new nuclear stations will lead russia to losing potential construction markets but the current

decisions have been influenced by public opinion and countries will primarily be concentrating on safety measures and existing power plants and the recovery of japan's economy may take years that's according to one of russia's leading economists who also serves to burn we'll have to review its fiscal policy to accommodate the costs of reconstruction. i think now the scale of it give us additional. years the reconstruction of the infrastructure and all big here but if there is a nuclear disaster or similar which are normal probably. closing down all areas of japan for life in the midst of a creation of people and. situations that is it is very very green for there are good wages been used fiscal position in japan's there is already a very high in most people would have been seen on sustainable growth and the bad sense i think will be

a major very busy. fiscal obligations. with the japanese car giants like toyota honda and nissan suspending production market watches here and overall downturn in the input water industry but it won't launch if a tourist in young things the major impact on the global kamarck it 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. own utilized capacities elsewhere and even within japan so yes the there is a moment there and disruption for a few days however i don't think that this was will have a big overall impact. but see how the asian markets performed on wednesday japanese shares have rebounded shockley after two consecutive days of decline with the nikkei index finishing five point seven percent in the black and helped to instill

confidence five pumping another forty three billion dollars into the financial markets it's the third cash injection in three days by japan's central find and in total it has allocated two hundred eighty four billion dollars to the crisis hong kong's hang seng was a tenth of a percent bouncing back a bit as concerns that china may suffer from japanese economy downturn art music. and european shares were trying to recoup losses in the trade after a much needed recovery from the japanese drugs helps to combat nerves and votes from worldwide watch her appeal stocks gave up early morning came through trade low then led by losses from banking stocks on the guzzi which is trading down twenty six percent darkly h.s.b.c. and for the national one a loser whenever it's more than two and a half percent tax is flatter. and brushed the r.t.s. in the minds it's a both up more than two point six percent whole world with slightly retreated from

their early gains as they were tracking asia higher on cheap validations in japan and hopes the economy will move back to normality to cool spot price of a look at some of the individual share moves. most of the banking shares up posting gains for beyond this point two percent but energy shares are the main winners the solid despite prices remaining. the trial saved us from japan is pushing world markets slow about the situation in libya raid a supporting well crisis with ongoing insurgency of the world crude oil supplies i'll show that we should cross knapsacks rising more than one hundred percent of boilers almost point four percent higher at this hour chris with the chief strategist of the world's against blades why current well situation is paper and brush. in many ways this combination of the threat of destruction in the middle east providing sports to the oil price while at the same time the risk of slower economic growth and of course disruption in japan.

causing you know concern about demand that combination which is likely to keep the price of oil around the current likely 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 short term we get more money flows but it clearly would 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 effect in other words rising prices written for the sort of collapse so that would be on the other hand if you know if we didn't have that ongoing threat level that we now have these concerns over demand and economic growth we could easily see the price of oil going back to eighty dollars which would put them at the budget in a suitable deficit. chris. and russia's finance minister alex it could run

says world prices may surge to two hundred dollars per barrel in near future that's a backdrop of the political turmoil in the middle east and the crisis in japan you noted but speculation could also push fluctuations but in the medium term there would be low sustainability for such high prices on wednesday christmas up the price of one hundred fifteen dollars a barrel and help of russian budget to breakeven but perhaps not the business portion join my colleagues in less than one hour's time for more business stories here on r.t. or get more from the website r.t. dot com slash business.

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