we'll. review the latest science stems. from. the future. the crisis at the quake hit the fukushima power plant in japan reports say a partial meltdown is on the way. despite japanese authorities claiming the radiation level poses no imminent threat to health the country's track record of covering up calls problems challenges the official version of events. disability i'll be taking you to the movies and from the big bills to the united nations to egypt because i mean conservative of inclusiveness to certain each should keep. the argument of the world begins to understand that it has made a mistake and reality would you see not being in libya is different from what

happened in tunisia egypt. exclusively towards see about here he sees the current situation in libya and the international reaction to the events there. right from our studios here in central moscow this is twenty four hours a day nine pm now in the russian capital and three am in japan. where the country struggling to control the reactors damaged by the disastrous earthquake has radiation levels continue to rise in a partial meltdown of nuclear fuel is fit into facilities at the fukushima plant workers were drawn after the danger of exposure of paint also saw plans to drop water from helicopters abandoned bodies on the planet who's in the region says the radioactive threat is causing many people so funny. but there's an undercurrent of

anxiety and fear and it's a different kind of fear now because when a tsunami the earthquake they can see and hear the threats this the radiation they can't see or smell it it's 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 newly born boy and they are actually from sendai i know it in sendai when it earthquake struck they have been able to move until now because the market was too weak but now they're heading for tokyo as fast as they can and this is just another more evidence of people who go trust the government don't trust the advice that the radiation isn't spreading into a greater area outside. this queue of people is a kilometer on 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 put 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 they announced normally absorbed in a year there are fees it will spread across the country while residents prepared to go to ground for news crews the fleeing this team from new zealand is heading finegan said port the 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. already turning up try and get on the next available flight out of the country desperation. 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 ever longing 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 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 other than it r.t. the gutter japan. struggling to get the situation. see we're asking the question can be authorities do more why can't the high tech countries like japan find a way to cool those reactors when you can have your say at our facebook account

just enter our team use one word it's probably also their our page we have the latest videos analysis and these on the situation they're going to be prepared as well as all our other top stories that's all there on facebook. the french government has accused japanese authorities of hiding the true extent of the crisis at their damaged nuclear plant even as levels of radiation in tokyo rise . now in the capital there in japan reports on the country's long history of silencing nuclear scandals. it's about hundred kilometers north of tokyo is about three hundred times the norm in the at all itself radiation levels and i read about eleven times as high people are being told by the government that the current radiation levels are either except of operate the k'naan flows a danger to health however this 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 or put forth to the public should actually be checked thoroughly here is reporting that 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 many years and you could destry and the regulators in japan but also it is every society every country or preach nuclear power you find consistently there's a lack of transparency a lack of will. maybe they just think i think we can but that's too much information why should we be information in fact just five years ago the plans are greater tokyo electric power company or tepco its message 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 here goes the japanese government is not only accountable of course little people. but also the accountable to other countries and other nations that all slots in two thousand to the 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 temp 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 infrastructure 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 go back to you don't want to panic or probably to get them to sell for evacuees and maybe on within requote 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. in japan that the information that we're receiving is narco informing us to the extent that we would like to and it doesn't reduce haneke it just makes people all the more uncertain when he can't trust the information they're being 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

here goes. well in russia all eyes are on the country's far east in connection with the nuclear crisis at the fukushima plant the region borders in some fear it could be affected by a radioactive cloud and although authorities assure the threat is not existant at the moment a growing number of people are taking serious precautions as. the concentration of radiation in russia far is normal that's according to russia's main why the agency now there is no immediate threats possibly first of all because of favorable weather conditions. radioactive cloud current go straight out into the pacific ocean away from russia that is it doesn't change direction after radiation levels spiked at fukushima daiichi nuclear plant at seventeen i was there stations across russia have been constantly carrying out

checks we're now in the city of russia's largest poorest city on the pacific ocean this city is only five hundred seventy miles away from my local residents are taking new chances on top of official records are almost morning story radiation levels on the road. current situation many to go ahead and take to safety in their own hands that's why i'm buying these concha watch. today's edition of the law just look newspaper also. has great. fortune tellers and are in high demand. for the latter with lots. of wednesday morning and there was a flight leaving for moscow shortly after about it was full of her books. which. also is the paper reports. he would dive has been sold out at pharmacies across the city of louisville and the cheapest. cost as much as seven hundred dollars but

especially say it's not enough to just cause that you also need to be taught how to use it properly. a reason x. rays it also has an additional radiation detection the biggest problem. is the radiation dust in the air with this is going to take the level of radiation on your clothes when you come from outside so you don't clean right now. we have also managed to get our hands on a professional geiger counter. it is the one which for example rushes a margin says ministry eclipses cars and stations where as of now believe in the studio in the city the radiation levels stand between twelve to thirteen microns per hour within within a lot of this area. standing at some thirty five per hour so not yet critical but

still the reading is higher than that on the island for example. and katrina co-chair of the shares her latest experiences from russia's far east all over twitter account and that's all t. underscore corm using a gaga counter should be tweeting live radiation levels and you can follow the closest russian. twitter account or underscore. and of course throughout the program we'll bring you all the latest from the crisis stricken region working in japan to keep you updated twenty four seven. concerning that situation in japan i'm joined live from vermont by an old goodison he's an energy advisor at fairwinds associates corporation specializing in environmental nuclear safety and energy issues mr gundersen thanks so much for joining us live here on our team now we're reporting at the moment that there are suggestions that a partial nuclear meltdown is now underway can you explain to us what does that

mean exactly. you know what it means is that the nuclear fuel has become brittle and that's evident because of the hydrogen explosions that have occurred that process makes nuclear fuel brittle and the pieces of nuclear fuel inside are about as big as my kinky joint in my pinky bay have all four went into the bottom of the nuclear reactor there are thousands and thousands of those pieces in the center of those pieces is maltin your enim. it's this is not a nuclear chain reaction is not a nuclear bomb this is the radiation left over after the chain reaction has started. this this will go on for several months and the heat got to be removed if you can't ok so it starts with throw up but you say this is not

a nuclear bomb but would not the effects be the same as an eclipse bomb if obviously it does reach meltdown and there is an explosion. the chemicals that are going to be released are similar actually the chemicals released from the active chemicals released from a nuclear bomb disappear quicker then the radiation that is released in a nuclear power plant the fission spectrum in a nuclear power plant has longer lived radiation than the fission spectrum in a in a bomb but i'll be looking at an apocalypse i read all the wind reports on websites looking at international newspapers that word is used many times exaggeration or is that true well my term is this is true not all on steroids this is this will be worse than sure nobody exactly how much worse i don't know but. it's pretty clear to me that that it will be worse i'm sure you say will be do you think is deafening going to happen or do you think prices could be averted no i don't

think crisis can be averted. the radiation exposure. those are so high and say that i don't think human beings can get into the areas that need to be accessed in order to put the fire to put fires out and also to get water into the locations where the heat is the highest and so i say so what will be the effects not just for those people in the vicinity we understand of being evacuated in just a twelve mile radius but what about tokyo where radiation levels are at ten times above the norms at the moment and beyond the atmosphere of the sea the as yet region. well i think you're if there's any lucky thing that's happened so far it's the wind is mainly blowing out to sea if the wind turns to the to the cell i expect you will see radiation in tokyo i don't believe it will be enough to evacuate tokyo but i think it would be prudent to take precautions and you know try to stay out

stay out of the plume you know the asiatic region and they're already beginning to reroute airlines because they're afraid of the the radiation landing on the airplane and you know a plane from from tokyo to moscow for instance will fly through that plume so it's it will definitely begin to affect asiatic travel comedian appreciate your and then if you advise your specials environmental nuclear safety and energy issues but your message some people may say is scaremongering can we be absolutely sure it's going to happen because it's a very different message that the people in japan are getting from the government or do you think the government is not telling the truth. i don't think the government is lying i do think the government is not telling him everything it knows you know i study chernobyl and i was an expert witness on three mile island and the government is always behind the eight ball or at least thinks they are deliberately trying to downplay the amount of radiation being released you know we saw it in the gulf of mexico to at the oil spill he underestimated the amount of

oil that seems to be the way bureaucracies work let me just quickly ask you about the international atomic agency it's just reacting now to the crisis promising to send a team to japan many people criticize it for not acting fast enough and those criticizing criticism is justified do you think oh absolutely the international atomic energy commission estimated five percent of the core fail in fact seventy percent so these guys have come in with global estimates for quite a few days now and if anything though the i.a.e.a. could it physically help before now. i don't think there's anything an expert can do to physically help at this point i think these reactors are a runaway. gunderson very interesting to hear what you have to say we appreciate your time and energy by ok wins associates corporation specializing in as i say an environmental nuclear safety and energy issues joining us live in vermont thanks for your time thank you ok well let's turn now turn our attention to libya

now where our forces loyal to colonel gadhafi are closing in on the rebel stronghold of benghazi as major world powers have been struggling to the side in response to the situation but they've been misled says colonel gadhafi and an exclusive interview with r.t. and that will bring that interview to you in full a little later but first here's a preview. when. the world begins to understand that it has made a mistake in reality what is happening in libya is different from what happened in tunisia and egypt we don't trust the west anymore the foreign media has been showing terrifying reports which have nothing to do with reality that's why some of my supporters and ambassadors resigned to during the earlier days of the protests i would do so myself if i saw reports that thousands of people were killed in my country as well being darsie intervention and violence won't be necessary there the rebels will be handled by my supporters in the town which there are many. well

we'll bring you that interview with colonel gadhafi that exclusive interview in full later today now meanwhile artie's paula slim who's in tripoli reports on how the balance of power is shifting in forces vance. the situation on the ground is very much turning into duffy's favor his troops on our phone syncs would see people stronghold of big concrete in the east the government is saying that it will have a victory they will in days and gadhafi himself again appeared on state television saying that if this is a foreign lot we will crush it if it is a domestic such we will crush it resistance inside being darsie head on so we slid to the egyptian border others are holed up in their homes hearing a message on stilts by gadhafi forces inside the government officials have said that the town of as jabir which is some one hundred sixty kilometers away from because it is the last major rebel stronghold the food being donzy officials here

saying that this town to meet 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 college resubmission which is essentially being told discussed paragraph by paragraph now the sponsored resolution has been pursued by living on it is with the same to the i repeat it induces a no fly zone should be pushing case of the what is the pixy council members is that the arab league 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 part of a solution is being posed by pushing and france if you look to the sanctions to be on the gadhafi regime and this seems to have a lot of people searching most people from east asia you see then the idea of a new sky so essentially it's asking for individuals and entities to have travel

bans imposed on them and also their assets frozen increasingly it does seem as if there is a schism in the international community with the monster in the first officially recognized the opposition as the official voice of libya the question has been on whether or not other countries will follow. why is. this just. france britain the us to find themselves in hot water over there his decision to denounce colonel gadhafi says mark colvin tears a visiting professor of international relations appeal to university in it. states. i mean. i'm going to go. if you go bang. on the other hand pushing ahead with military operations

recently we were impressed you without actually knowing who you were from the ground war kind of regime and all system of government and stable place where we aren't able to resist and for people who support including through important information is very risky around. the world will psychological pressures or programs promise to come and you are normally not wanting. decisive factor in a war mistaken position to remarkable. progress is always important nobody would have learned that in terms of the world economy. you the colonel gadhafi his regime space and power. all surprised who were you know particularly in problems who you may know see as enemy and clearly the current government as a former i'm biased i'm going to go and i really thought that we could see you know economic as well as perhaps a continuance of. well i'll be back with development so i'm

a new stories in less than five minutes from now but first though let's get the latest business news from dimitri he'll be with you in just a few moments knife head and will sustain this for that. it is. i know you're watching business with me dmitri medvedev encourage japanese stocks rebounded sharply on wednesday after two days of heavy losses we'll have more on that 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 energy commission just recently announced that japan's fukushima damaged reactors are quote out of control and could lead to catastrophic events within hours meanwhile japan's nuclear crisis strengthened concerns of the safety of those similar objects around the world germany has temporarily shut down seven of its august nuclear plants adding that it should abandon nuclear power sooner than where switzerland has suspended the approval process for three new nuclear power stations. 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. time now for

a look at the markets we start with japanese shares rebounded sharply on wednesday after two consecutive days of strong declines the next day was up five point seven percent the hag's point one percent this is our bank of japan helped. in strength and confidence by pumping another forty three billion dollars into the markets bringing the total sum of investment to two hundred eighty four billion dollars. of the u.s. markets now they're shrugging off japanese worries with the lack of information on what's actually happening there. and what to expect causing investors to sell for cash the dow is down two point two percent so is the nasdaq in the rush of the session and did something like three hours ago a bit more optimism than elsewhere with the r.t.s. my six managing some gains although at the beginning of the session secular groups on the stocks now there's a tug of war between sad news between japan and its pushing of world markets but at

the same time the situation in libya and bahrain are supporting high oil prices with ongoing uncertainty of world crude wills lights out of the region therefore we're seeing that point nine percent point four percent. down point six percent here is not that you can see here. but we are seeing today is that the markets are not pricing in the worst case scenario of the development of france and japan clearly japan is just making up for some of the losses which we've seen in the last couple of days there hasn't been any positive evidence for an upturn in the situation we think that in the medium term japan will have to reduce the use of the nuclear sources of energy and this is positive for the gas production for russia as well for production as well the flip side of the coin is that the uranium prices have literally collapsed over the last couple of days this might be short lived as well however we know that the consumption of uranium and i think some decrease.

russia's government has reconfirmed its plans to sell a part of its controlling stake in the country's largest lenders burbank authorities hope to sell a seven point six percent stake in the bank of the second half of this year however that we heard the minister of economic development say that the privatization of state run bank was quote unlikely to happen this year yet first deputy prime minister you should vote for you reiterate that the government had to sell off its they conspired to eleven should market conditions proof favorable. but. if market conditions are favorable this year we could offer investors sperm bank stocks we will not rush the sale and we'll try to do it as efficiently as we did in the case of d.t.b. the stocks will be sold once the market environment is encouraging but we will do our best not to delay this process. and turkey has yet to give russia permission to start construction of the south street gas pipeline project over its territory that's according to deputy prime minister going to see a trip so i guess delegation headed by the country's prime minister visited moscow

on wednesday to discuss a range of bilateral issues but he energy matters including the south stream and some some jihan oil pipeline failed to make any headway the russian government over there say it's aim to boost bilateral trade with turkey up to one hundred billion dollars annually trade between the two countries already by almost thirty percent last year the vaso becoming the be second largest trade partner for turkey. and i think this edition of business will be back in fifteen minutes time with an update bill is next we'll have lots to think about it for that.

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