just issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on. the crisis at the quake hit fukushima power plant in japan worsens this report say a partial nuclear meltdown is underway. despite japanese authorities claiming the radiation level poses a no imminent threat to health the country's track record of covering up past nuclear problems challenges the official version of events plus. government forces in libya we take even more land from the rebels now most countries in the international community are against employees in the no fly zone the united nations it states it's discuss this.

r.t. is coming to you live from the heart of the russian capital where it's now or just after five pm now japan is struggling to control the reactors damaged by the disastrous earthquake as radiation levels continue to rise and a partial meltdown of nuclear fuel is feared in two facilities at the fukushima plant workers were withdrawn after the danger of exposure peaked and the alert also saw plans to drop water from helicopters abandon parties either bennett who is in the region force says that the radioactive threat is causing many people to flee. there's a bubbling under current of anxiety and fear and it's a different kind of fear now because when a tsunami be earthquake they can see and hear the threats this the radiation they can't see smell it it's an invisible enemy so now it's a different kind of a threat just this morning i've spoken to a young japanese couple were just a ten day old newborn and they are actually from sendai i know it in sendai where

many earthquake struck they have to move until now this market was too weak but now they heading for 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 vice that the radiation isn't spreading into a greater area outside. this queue of people who are kilometers on it trying to stockpile what food is left in sim guy 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 out the casing and the final two reactors have now lost cooling capability to radiation levels peak near the plant at four hundred times the announce normally absorbed in a year there is little spread across the country residents prepared to go to ground

for news crews a fleeing this team from new zealand is heading for new guns at the airport but flights from better sucker in tokyo are already fully booked for the next two days the exodus has begun. next. 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 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 by the threat of nuclear meltdown means they could still be more to come. you can't touch it. so why do you think japan is struggling to get the nuclear situation under control you can join the heated debate on our facebook page come your thought use do more and why can't a high tech country like japan find a way to cool these reactors you can log onto our page here and have a look at all the items in the top news stories and have your say right here on our facebook account just enter our t.v. news has one word lots and lots of stories and headlines for you to go through right there pages of all the latest videos analysis and news on the situation as well as our top stories. now the french government has accused the japanese

authorities of hiding the truth stand of the crisis at the damaged nuclear plant even as levels of radiation in tokyo are on the rise. is now in the capital port and how the country's long history of silencing nuclear scandals has panned out very nice and. it's about one hundred kilometers north of tokyo three hundred times the norm in the japanese level it self radiation levels i read about eleven times as high wire or higher than they should be or higher than what is going to be acceptable for be exposed to people who are being told by the government that the current radiation levels are either except to operate there or do not pose a danger to help however the evidence shows as history shows the japanese government has exactly proven it to be always so always so always trustworthy and everything that it does say or put forth to the public should actually be checked

for a serious report and act. 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 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 or preach nuclear power you find consistently but 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 in fact just five years ago the plans of greater tokyo electric power company or tepco its mr to falsifying temperature readings for cooling materials at fukushima 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 in the job is going. to get people there trying to take care of both. to other countries and other missions and all slots 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 because presidents and some senior officials to quit in scandal in two thousand and three seventeen temp cooperated plants were 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 diverse the population settlements are the more difficult it is to evacuate you don't want to chronicle probably to get them to so far back you and i may be on with only 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 and the information that we're receiving is not informing us to the extent that we would like it and when it doesn't reduce panic it just makes people all the more uncertain and 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 of their words could be taken at face value in tokyo here goes r.t. . now all the latest on the economic aftermath of the earthquake and the nuclear

crisis in japan that's coming your way in our business program that's coming up in some fifteen minutes time but now let's cross over for a quick preview and hello dimitri. rory it seems that tension about what's going on in japan has eased up slightly on the stock markets we've seen a rebound of six percent in japan japanese markets russian markets of also rebounded slightly but on the other hand tensions still remains in the middle east this is about oil of course will is growing this is positive for the russian market and our finance minister says that it may actually grow to two hundred dollars per barrel you'll find more of that in our business world and around fifteen minutes from. now in russia all eyes are on the country's far east in connection with the nuclear crisis at the fukushima power plant the region of borders and some fear it could be affected by a radioactive cloud and although authorities are sure the threat is nonexistent at the moment a growing number of people are taking serious precautions and salty sick of the

democrats have discovered. the concentration of radiation in russia as far is remains normal that's according to russia's main weather agency now there is no immediate threats to possibly russia first of all because of favorable weather conditions a potential radioactive cloud current me would go straight out into the pacific ocean i way from russia that is if the wind doesn't change direction offshore radiation levels spike satch fukushima daiichi nuclear plant at seventeen our weather stations across washes far east have been constantly carrying out checks we're now in the city i believe also that is russia's largest poorest city on the pacific ocean with a population of over half a million people and this city is only five hundred seventy miles away from local residents are taking new chances. on top of official reports are also mourning story radiation levels on the road even sold. in the city and out

posting regular updates on the citizen fishel website and some are ready to go even further about bass by equipping their forties with personal readers. if you current situation may need to go ahead and take safety in their own hands that's why i'm going to come to watch. today's edition all the law just local news paper also wrote that has gripped russia spahr is just fortune tellers and to add to kids are in high demand well i can certainly go for the latter with laughs. on wednesday morning and there was a flight leaving for most shortly after that it was over books by some passengers which is a choice between them and also tickets doubled in fry's the cheapest one for most go is about three thousand dollars that is a one way ticket and you would get a seat until next monday also if the paper reports. he will die and has been sold

out of pharmacies across the city obligate us stock and the cheapest geiger counter costs as much as seven hundred dollars but even be surprised that doesn't seem to stop. if you answer for nurse who work in this highly specialized business told us they have sold more devices over the past three days than they normally do in a month but especially say it's not enough to just because that's a device you also need to be taught how to use it properly. this device to extend the reason x. rays it also has an additional radiation detection the biggest problem in japan right now is the radiation dose in the air with this device you can detect the level of radiation on your clothes when you come from. c m can right now. we have also managed to get our hands on a professional geiger counter here it to use it is the one in which for example

russia's emergence as ministry of cars and stations where as of now believe has been the city of the bus stop in the city center radiation levels stand between twelve to thirteen microns grauer within within allowed this area. standing at some thirty five or so not yet critical but still the reading is higher than that on the island for example. latest experiences from russia's far east on our twitter account that's r.t. underscore com and in the whole families are fleeing from homes with all they have to follow first time coverage right here on our to his twitter page from the closest to russian region again that's our twitter account. underscore. you see right there. or nuclear power expert of greenpeace john have come says

even when workers can get access to the control room for. the task they face coupled with the conditions they have to do it in predicting their success it's impossible. the situation at this moment remains critical it will remain critical several days there's only fifty people allowed in the plans of the mines and they work in fifteen minutes shifts which is bits is very little and they have to work very many things by hand because remote control installations of calm 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 fleetwood which would indeed be a core that is completely dry and that would would lead to a meltdown it is very early now to predict what would happen because we depends on how much the material would get out it would depend on what the sea streams what we what the wind 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 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 fifty would full nearer to the nuclear power station and there it would create larger havoc that we've seen it in the case of. meantime at walt patterson a nuclear physicist and associate fellow at chatham house he believes that the crisis at the fukushima power plant will have long lasting effects for the global nuclear industry this interview is coming up next hour but for now here's a preview. there's been quite a substantial body of opinion in japan including among sees mol adjusts but building nuclear plants anywhere in japan is not a good idea my personal feeling is that building nuclear plants anywhere is not a good idea for basically economic reasons they are very expensive they tend to be unreliable they are a kind of electricity which is very inflexible and difficult for an electricity

system to use because you could lose a thousand megawatts in two minutes and in recent years of course that has been the major controversy about nuclear power investment all over the world private investors do not want to spend money on nuclear plants for quite understandable reasons they don't think you could get their money back but now the safety issue has come back again and that will complicate things even further. and that interview is coming your way next hour for the meantime here in our c let's turn our attention to libya where forces loyal to colonel gadhafi are closing in on the rebel stronghold of benghazi it's as major world powers are trying to reach an agreement on imposing a no fly zone over libya to prevent a airstrikes against the opposition forces but as our teams paula slip reports from tripoli even if they do reach a decision it could be a case of too little too late. the situation on the ground is very much turning into duffy stated that his troops are now advancing towards the rebel stronghold of

benghazi to make east the government to say that it will have to take the key bit with in days and gadhafi himself again appeared on state television saying that if this is a foreign plot we will crush it if it is domestic such we will crush resistance inside thing darcey head on the way to lead to the egyptian border others are holed up in their homes here with a message on stilts by gadhafi forces him and the government officials. that the town of as jabir which is some one hundred sixty kilometers away from thing cause it is the last major rebel stronghold before because the officials here say that this town in the hands of the toughest men on the international stage the second day of a united nations security council meeting is being held to discuss what to do with libya they are debating eight she charged with solution which is essentially we've been told and discussed paragraph by paragraph now this is part of

a solution has been put forward by you've been on it is with the same thing the i would be it induces a no fly zone to be pushing placed over this country but what is the casing council members that the everybody else is says they must be no foreign intervention and at the same time every country has come forward to the challenge of such a mission the second council resolution is being posed by bush and france if you look at the sanctions she kept on the gadhafi regime and this seems to have a lot of people sitting most people from the international community to me idea of an aside so essentially it's asking for individuals and entities to have travel that goes on them and also the assets frozen increasingly it does seem as if there is a schism in the international community with fronts being the first shooting we can i see opposition as the official voice of libya the question is being asked whether . i think. if the fates.

of the. time. was. given. the size we see on the surface. it does not specifically say. if you. wish to dismiss me gave me some of the grounds that. if i could just take a case. of his promise to write that let me sign france britain and the us service found themselves and what's up with a hasty decision to denounce colonel qadhafi says knock on the sofa sitting assessor of international relations bill kent university in soc. western states. having. invented. a good number if you go home. the best army will become army on her own personal ahead with military operations the reason

we were impressed without actually knowing who your home ground what kind of regime the system of government and state place where we might aren't able to resist and for people who support for though including who west and also since it is very risky and. very worried and psychological pressures are programmed to promise the government you. are not one can probably decisive factor in a war mistaken position to another war. is the always important nobody would neither in terms of the world economy drops the colonel about his regime space and per. call surprised with no particular vehicle in program who human or citizen of a particular current government. a former and by the same into their own neighborhood we could see an economic war as well as the continuing. meanwhile unrest is spreading further in the arab world and but right at least six people have been killed and hundreds wounded as

a riot police attacked anti-government protesters calling for political reforms and the equal rights for the majority shiites. came to claire three month state of emergency to deal with protests which of rock the country for more than thirty days later today cross talk guests will debate the prospects of a democratic middle east and the possible role of the international community. people are free to pick whatever form of government they want muslims or islam is can have that kind of government and objectively speaking that seems fair but that's why i'm saying the west needs to understand that if people get what they want which as the others were saying would be a caliphate these things are very much at odds with the ok with the concept of united nations for example let me go ahead jump in i know i disagree first afford every lucian's in tunisia in egypt and in the media have not been islamist at all and they don't have any an islamist nature and they're the majority of the arabs

are muslim but there have not been islamists i agree with that by the way truly i was saying that all those that we have been awarded on the hour is what is it ok tragedy go ahead in london go ahead i think the danger that people in the west face is simply to say look this is not a conspiracy is intolerable well the lesson is to keep out of things that supported dictators for the last thirty years there are in no position western governments i know position to try to tell the muslim world what you have. if. you can. you with live from moscow and there's been a welcome home but three space travelers have completed their five month stint in orbit that soyuz spacecraft successfully landed in the snowy steps of star it brought two russian cosmonauts and a nasa astronaut from the international space station and it was closely monitored

by search and rescue services and was that the first of a new generation soyuz craft equipped with a digital data geishas system three others are still at the i assess that are due to retire about three months time fresh crew has shuttle to the launch. time after business with dmitri. thanks rory japanese stocks rebounded sharply on wednesday after two days of heavy losses were up more of that in just a moment however other sectors of the japanese economy continue to suffer in the aftermath of the disaster consumers in japan are emptying store shelves and fear of a 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 on safety of similar objects around the world germany has temporarily shut down seven of its all just nuclear

plants adding it should abandon nuclear power sooner than foreseen so it's allowed as a spend of the of crude oil process for three new do clear power stations because they're either three potent add b.c.'s bank says this may have an impact on russia is not as. 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 leave russia to 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 needing economists also says japan will have to review its fiscal policy to accommodate the cost of reconstruction. i think now the scale of. the. years the reconstruction of the infrastructure all big here but if there is

a new very disaster similar picture a normal day will probably. cause him down whole areas of japan for life in the midst of the creation of people in that sense i think this occasions that he is very very grateful for their a good news fiscal position in japan so there is already very high and most people will demand see unsustainable and. will be a major only visit him. just many. obligations. japanese car joints like toyota honda nissan suspending production market watches and overall downturn in the auto industry but even ernst and young thanks the major impact on global car market last one. i don't expect me. back from the overall industry and still globally speaking there are a number of. phone 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 will have a big overall impact on us from the us look at the stock market's. reaction now japanese shares have rebounded sharply after two consecutive days of decline with the make a five point seven percent in the black bank of japan to help stall confidence by pumping another forty three billion dollars into the financial markets it's the third cash injection in three days central bank and in total it is allocated two hundred eighty four billion dollars to the crisis hong kong saying saying it was run ten pounds in back a bit as concerns that china may suffer from japanese economic downturn easing u.s. markets opened slightly on nuclear worries from japan and on the other hand u.s. wholesale prices rose one point six percent dreams with the biggest jump of food

costs in more than six years therefore we've seen it out of the can point six percent european shares of trying to recoup losses in the early trade up to a much needed recovery for japanese stocks have to call the rest as world wide but the footsie is yet again down half a percent barclays h.s.b.c. and prevention are all losing on average more than two percent but dax is up twenty three in russia the odds yes my stocks have another fifteen minutes of trading left above one percent. so this is of course lower than the initial gains that we've seen the beginning of the session as they were tracking asia high on cheap valuations in japan and hopes the economy will move. back to normality in june cause a look at some of the stocks most banking shares are posting gains burberry you see their point eight percent up energy shares of the main winners rosneft up one half percent lukoil one percent is some kind of tug of war here present because of the

sad news from japan pushing world markets in the same time situation in libya and bahrain are supporting high oil prices with the ongoing uncertainty of kreutz of wise for the region. and russia's finance minister says oil prices may surge to two hundred dollars per barrel in the near future that's against the backdrop of the political turmoil the middle east and the crisis in japan you noted that speculation can also push fluctuations in the media and there would be no sustainability for such high prices and once the region said that the price of one hundred fifteen dollars per barrel would help the russian budget to break even but that is under condition they still get a big. well be back next hour with an update roy's next what i had wanted to say about.

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