a hotel in thailand thailand as hotel time ambassador type the hotel full points. how would prince or to discipline the hotel in touch with the hotel in touch with the photo and kooragang how an international house. hotel. japan struggles to control the situation of the stricken a functioning with nuclear power dropping seawater from the air and planning to move music talent truck desperate attempts to cool the reactors and prevent total meltdown. with only fifteen workers remaining to tackle the unstable power plant all eyes turn to the un and nuclear morrisey wondering why it's taking them so long to react to the atomic danger unfolding in.

the u.s. says it's alarmed quite a melting pot an example of the troubles may have started out the drawing board behind the power stations design. and in business the japanese yen his heat its highest level against the u.s. dollar since the end of the second world war or in business in just about twenty minutes. you'll be an opposition forces are calling for an end to the month long violence while russia is pushing the cease fire resolution to be put in place the united nations are really doesn't seem quite ready just yet to make any decisions. and see this is r.t. live from moscow japan is struggling to regain control over the overheated reactors and the question of a nuclear plant after

a series of blasts as the government's most senior spokesman said cooling reactor number three is now the top priority because it's pose the biggest danger when military helicopters the car dropping seawater onto the stricken reactors in the latest goods to have a nuclear meltdown while other aircraft are monitoring the amount of radiation levels getting high for the. trucker wars it can be deployed to try and get a temperature of top of actors to try out art and other benefits in the region says many were now being terrified by the threat of meltdown. as she foresaw the tsunami was hard to comprehend until i saw this vehicles and houses it impossible angles it was as if the ground surface had been ripped off. this woman told us they've never experienced such a powerful earthquake before and she feared for her life we weren't allowed out of the car at the coast and police were on high alert and suddenly there was panic.

warnings of a five metre high wall of water heading our way go go go this man shouted at us we sped inland as fast as possible chased by others the last wave took just nine minutes after the earthquake to reach eighty kilometers inland we didn't have long this was a false alarm but those already on their knees are bracing themselves for more of the relief center in sendai the newly homeless are given blankets and a cardboard sheet all nineteen floors of this building in full with everyone from infants to the elderly. the night i spent here was brutally cold and virtually sleepless some could be here for weeks everyone had a story to tell about their moment of terror. there is we hear.

first an earthquake in the tsunami now radiation road blocks around fukushima appeared as early as saturday since then the fear has been steadily building just like the queues and took an hour to get past this jan of cars for wanting to fill up fearing fuel shortages it may not be visible hysteria but the anxiety has prompted essential stockpiling as the threat escalates in all and more a leaving i was traveling with his crew from new zealand when we heard they had been a fourth explosion had planned quickly changed to an exit strategy new garter i met this young family from sendai a baby boy was just five days old when the earthquake struck. the only thing i thought of when and how to end was i have to save my baby how does feel about the radiation i said. that's why i have left sendai i'm scared for my baby and i don't want him to get ill it can have a very negative impact on him on

a train to tokyo it was more of the same the stories does change his flight out to the earliest of able to get his nails this. year. when it comes to radiation the people i've met here aren't sure the government's telling the full story and most aren't willing to wait around to find out why the bennett party to get the energy adviser on all the good as that has been watching the crisis calling explains the details the long lasting consequences. the radiation exposure is are so high and site 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 the fires out and also to get water into the locations where the heat is the highest if there's any lucky thing that's happened so far as the wind is mainly blowing out to

sea if the wind turns to the to the south i expect he 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 and 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 of 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 i don't think the government is lying i do think the government is not telling them 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 eightball on these things they are deliberately trying to downplay the amount of radiation being released you know we saw it in the gulf of mexico two at the oil spill they are under estimated the amount of oil that seems

to be the way bureaucracies or the international atomic energy commission estimated five percent of the core had failed in fact seventy percent so these guys have come in with low ball estimates for quite a few days now. well japanese authorities have met. with an unprecedented crisis in assistance to the channel two of us a nuclear disaster. for us. what's the latest information well the latest information coming from the japanese officials is that they have carried out there are several attempts to. seawater on to that fourth reactor unfortunately only were able to carry out four flybys and experts say about one hundred of those is needed in order to have any effect any cooling it sets whatsoever on the reactor at this point. the temperatures of the

third and fourth reactors are where they used to be so there's still relatively high. and there are still fears of possible explosions also our latest news is that consumers are the best and six the two remaining in south reactors at fukushima plant. those reactors are also rising they're at about sixty degrees celsius right now they should be supposedly at twenty five so we're looking at a situation that is stable and becoming very very critical almost to no end and of course that there are also reports that in some areas. close to. the radiation levels are slightly up now they don't say exactly how they went but that is the information that we have to rely on of course at the same time this is happening in the japanese government and the authorities are saying right everything is seemingly under control and they're doing their best. situation

they're actually going to bring forth water cannons from the police departments to try and keep the temperatures going to while all of this is happening you have all sorts of authorities including american energy. those who are saying that in fact the reality is that our situation is a lot more grave and that they are that there is a meltdown already going on the same time and there is the i eighty eight which really should be keeping tabs on what is happening in terms of anything concerning our peaceful use of nuclear power but the i.a.e.a. or especially over the last couple of years has been increasingly silence in fact we just for observing of the news you can say that. in the first couple of days of the patients from were actually saying something and saying that this is a clear and present danger to the japanese population i thought the last several

days they were somewhat light and the question arises the question arises what exactly are all these officials doing and here is the report that's looking closer at the eye in action and this particular circumstance. i missed reports that radiation levels in the japanese capital could be up to eleven times the norm people scramble to get away from the invisible killer here in tokyo series do seem to be less visible at the epicenter of the plans to clear disaster fifty people remain struggling to keep the reactors under control but wait where's the international atomic energy agency the exponent of the peaceful use of nuclear power there here in japan arriving four days after the first explosion at a nuclear plant the i.a.e.a. as well as a promoter of nuclear power whose job is not to necessarily be able to come to the rescue of failed attempts at maintaining quality design and and protecting the public from natural disasters such as we're dealing with here although they'll sell

that message when the twin approved when the proof is in the pudding you can clearly see that the i.a.e.a. has absolutely no ability to deal with this problem any more than the japanese government the very people who should be keeping tabs on the situation seems to have bear little direct involvement in it in fact until now and the only source of information was the japanese government for years and the organization has been busy with their mission statement to maintain nuclear energy for peaceful means and two thousand five and need increase inspections of iranian facilities the organization and its then chairman mohamed el baradei i was awarded a nobel peace prize but by the looks of it concerns over a possible un sanctioned uses of nuclear energy by countries like iran seem to have overshadowed the clear and present dangers of already existing nuclear power plants in countries like japan and now if they remain workers who have to battle fire

smoke and radiation at what remains of the fukushima power plant there's only fifty people out on the plans of the moms and they work in fifteen minutes shifts which is which is very little and they have to work very many things why. because remote control installations of the main operator room. because of. novels they're working under extremely difficult circumstances to try to prevent the worst from the worst. fear is showing signs of instability only fifty people remain a three piece with a problem putting their lives into it while behind my. scenes you can watch on from a safe distance in about. tokyo. now where. tear a. plant but it's. not stopping. me

from launching its own. we know it's a level six fukushima heading to level seven which was the chernobyl event what's going on here is we general even after the comcast merger stores a significant a stake in n b c we see the nuclear lobbying through the nuclear energy institute and all the other page. putting a full court press on every possible media outlet in addition to members of congress to make sure that nothing happens to affect the growth of nuclear power plants in this country and president obama i would add not only has jeffrey immelt as his jobs and competitiveness of adviser on our white house panel but he took a lot of money from exelon a chicago based nuclear power plant company so we have all kinds of conflicts of interest basically what admiral said many decades ago get the corporate board room

out of the news room now we see the effects this. the nuclear crisis has been criticized by the us being attempts to prevent a meltdown appear to be failing but atomic experts point out that the fukushima reactors are designed by america's general electric company about the recent built in flaws. right now a lot of people are wondering who they can point the finger at whether it's general electric who actually designed these nuclear reactors or the operator which in this case is tepco tokyo electric power company and actually when you take a deeper look into japanese law general electric will actually not be liable for any of the accident or damage that's happened at these nuclear reactors which could save them potentially tens or hundreds of billions of dollars so they're probably breathing a little bit of

a sigh of relief right now actually topcoat with the operator of the nuclear reactors would be responsible for those liability costs now many people are saying that in fact they're worth some design flaws it's an american nuclear disaster. explosions were built by the american general electric company over the plume was constructed designed mainly by american experts japan itself doesn't produce any reactors and the country is forbidden to engage in any nuclear research so we are witnessing a dream of the american energy industry just going to happen even japanese territory general electric is very keen on tapping into the one hundred fifty billion dollar nuclear energy business here in india india is one example of many countries who are looking to expand their nuclear power market however obviously a lot of questions are being raised here in india across asia most nuclear power plant construction has been halted general electric chairman jeffrey immelt was in

india earlier this week he was leading counsel of corporate asplund for the first time outside of the united states here in india he had to answer some tough questions from indian reporters about what was happening in japan and he seems to on many accounts be dodging those questions but he expressed a really express i guess you can say his commitment to this country he plans to invest two hundred million dollars here in the next five years indian law would have a whole. an american company like g.e. liable if an accident like that was to happen here and because of that many people wonder whether or not it will in fact continue to invest so much money but they seem like a logical partner since india wants to boost its atomic energy by thirteen times by twenty thirty so the partnership seems to be a logical one yet you know people across the world as i said before are starting to question whether or not they want to work with an american company on a project like this. the new campaign group in washington told us that it's.

it's down the king will more probable than those who clings for offenses are in serious danger. certainly there lives or immediately at stake. and clearly they have sacrificed any kind of long life by being there. actually there is concern for people who come in contact with them after coming out of this catastrophe essentially for three units or. clearly two of the containment systems or damaged and clearly unit number four it has lost all water cooling and clearly we have a full court meltdown maybe on its way without any containment whatsoever and the concern is that if they do not restore power to that facility that all six reactors

could become fully engaged in a mill to. really becomes a matter of which way the wind blows and it will carry tremendous amounts of deadly radiation sickening radiation and the consequences are really. i can't really comprehend what it could mean not only in the immediate pathway but as the cloud begins to globally move. in which neighbors japan is on high alert full of fantasy although americans officials. are still taking serious questions. the concentration of radiation in russia's part it's remains normal that's according to russia's main why their agency now there is no immediate rights to these possibly russia first of all because of favorable weather conditions.

current levels go straight out into the pacific ocean i way from russia that is if the wind doesn't change direction ocho radiation. levels spiked at fukushima daiichi nuclear at seventeen our weather stations across russia have been constantly carrying out checks that we're now in the city that is russia's largest port city on the pacific ocean this city is only five hundred seventy miles away from local she my local residents are taking no chances on top of official reports are also mourning tory radiation levels on the road from the current situation prompts many to go ahead and take their safety in their own hands that's why i'm buying discount to watch your diet has been sold out of pharmacies across the city of lady bus stop and the cheapest geiger counter costs as much as seven hundred dollars 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. to voice to text to mary's and x. rays and she also has an additional radiation detector the biggest problem in japan right now is the radiation dose in the air with this to be going to take the level of radiation on your clothes when you come from c m clean right now. and we have also managed to get our hands on a professional alex shaunie geiger counter you were to use it is the one which for example rushes emergences ministry equips is cars and stations where as of now the wait in the studio with us in the studio that radiation levels stand between twelve to thirteen microns per hour we wouldn't allowed for this area. standing at some thirty five mile per hour or so not yet critical but still the reading is higher than that on the island for example. facebook page to share your

thoughts on the tragedy in japan and. its nuclear crisis to. develop. our lines. to allow. more stable water supply you can also watch the legions video analysis on what's happening right now in japan as well as all our other top stories just typed. into the facebook search box. to libya now opposition supporters have not strew the rebel held city of the calls that are in the country's not for nonviolence russia has been pushing for a cease fire resolution through the u.n. security council which is they thought failed to make any decisions including the imposition of a no fly zone. is in jeopardy. the u.n. security council has a really for two days in debating the question of watching over libya and the last word we had from diplomats is that we must not expect a decision before today thursday when in fact that decision comes through it still

remains to be seen the sticking point of course is the whole question of and no fly zone here britain and france are still pushing heavily forward the latest word from the french is that some of the countries that are in the arab league and that gave me in large no fly zone of it have indicated that they will be part of the mission and part of the assistance to put that in place because on the other side you do have countries such as russia and germany that of the moment he opposed to it in other parts of the discussion and that the u.n. security council is focusing on is the question of sanctions and here there does seem to be more consensus in the international community stricter sanctions on the gadhafi regime and his family and his high level associates sanctions that will see a freeze on their assets and vans in may travel movements in benghazi itself is changing and there was a massive demonstration on wednesday with people took to the streets calling for an into the violence that violence continues and watch saw it on the right image on the road to some one hundred fifty kilometers away in the town of agents of the air

and their death is warplanes his tanks with a reported a k forty seven zero heavy shelling have continued and and look city continues today thursday as you know in tripoli though the mood is really different when i speak to officials there banding about the weekend as it did life which they say the death he would have completely obliterated his opposition and that opposition is again appealing to the international community with many people in benghazi itself saying that the international community talks about its concern of collateral damage while they say that people in benghazi will be more than collateral damage if gadhafi has his way. the last year has been speaking to colonel gadhafi who says dealing with the situation in libya is its own affair but one is being inflamed by al qaeda will bring it in full next hour but here's just some. what has helped us. throughout the morning we are dealing with something about portals from abroad i mean al qaeda terrorists leadership

began to tell the world about protests in libya about shooting honest housings killed they sent their reports to the news agencies and all of the sudden we found over the whole world was against libya with what we have had no protests how could news agencies report such statements the number of victims is one hundred fifty to two hundred how could one speak about thousands how can the un security council and the whole world decide based on media reports and it's now difficult to change world opinion on perception of what's going on look at the situations believed to be in crisis desperate and problematic hours for loss we consider this a libyan crisis a libyan disaster and a libyan problem. i call coming up in just a moment though all that is.

hello time for your business update the japanese yen has hit its highest level against the u.s. dollar since the end of the second world war it climbed as high as seven to six and a quarter in u.s. trade and on wednesday but it's since falling back and is currently trading at around seventeen my dollars on the market which is going to strongly again on the apache ation of assets and for increasing by japanese insurance firms meanwhile it she said and finance ministers will meet on straight to discuss how to deal with the global markets are two three six but it is just a can of japan the go ahead to intervene in currency markets to study began earlier this week japan's central bank injected two hundred eighty four look and dollars in

order to stabilize the country's financial markets which have been hit by under massive selloff. that see how the asian markets is forming on thursday the nikkei has embraced some post great pains and a match on wednesday so losing one point two percent plus our shares in japan and elsewhere in asia down a string of to u.s. officials had the risk of a catastrophic radiation leak from an earthquake struck in a japanese nuclear plant those wising one consequence saying is down more than half of this and. and here in russia the markets will open and out and out announced my post they were just in the my six and managed some gains in wednesday's trading the r.t.s. close to a nice hundred percent employed has come which is still snoozing for growth. now the nuclear crisis in japan will remain a key driver for the markets

a candidate loving gun from the odd creature investment firm stock exchanges balancing between a mass sunday and. the markets today will continue to focus on the development of the situation in japan whether the rescue operation will have any success or not and this will signify for global markets that we're either in the situation which is a huge buying opportunity or a situation which is a middle point of a bigger selloff among the important data that we will expect today is the u.s. jobless claims say so is likely to be overshadowed by external factors that will impact markets across our geography. from. and analysts say the russian car market could become the sixth largest twenty twenty sales of four million cars a year the market seventy seven percent in the first two months of this year boosted by a program with the economy and if it's improving high oil prices in our status of

the business new york magazine says russia's motor industry is a success story for investors it's a rare example of this report is a bigger tax breaks or what have you by the government designed super much investment in a particular sector surface and as such it's getting all of the government's bills tips about the myth that most people say investment in some affair is very low for investment in the car sector every major player in the world is pretty much here moreover they're just committed themselves to doubling or tripling their production of the factories that are going up in the various clusters include simply just. produce more and more cars for each job because it's the world's most of sorts or you get another six streams of science or research and some components and services and one. that's it for me for now join us and lost one last time for more.

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