we'll. bring you the latest in science and technology from. the future. with r.t. live from moscow where it's an hour four thirty pm a recap now of our top story japan struggles to a nuclear meltdown using military helicopters to drop water on the obviating reactors of the tsunami damage from fukushima power the lack of progress leads to fears the scale of the disaster is being played down. the head of the u.n. a nuclear watchdog finally heads to japan amid criticism of the atomic agency has failed to get on top of the crisis. and the unfolding for disaster could severely

damage the image and frankly account of the u.s. for much designed to station india is already rethinking its business dealings with general electric. and in libya pro-government forces regained more ground from rebels pressure is pushing for a u.n. cease fire resolution after declaring. persona non-grata. all amid the growing threat of a critical reactor meltdown in japan and russia see a subset is aided by international rescue team will suffer launched a countrywide recovery effort in an exclusive interview with r.t. we sat down with sort of a short ago rushers emergencies minister to discuss the progress and the challenges facing japan's government to stay with us. mr good thank you very much for finding time for us today but how do you assess today situation in japan. situation is extremely difficult it's

probably the first case for the last thirty years or even longer but at the very least it's the first case i remember of a large scale natural disaster causing a large scale manmade disaster it involves not only the kind of damage that happens often such as damage to the transportation system communication system ruined bridges failure of some conventional plants or factories but it also involves a most complicated and difficult disaster the nuclear radiation issue it is the first case both in the history of japan and world history of such large scale destruction and damage to the economy industry and power production and this kind of situation it is not only about restoring the life sustaining systems for the population but also about taking care of safety of both the environment and our neighbors or. what in your opinion as on the priority list of the japanese counterpart now and how is it changing as the earthquake recovery works that

progress on. the top priority is as usual ensuring protection of the population from radiation to the largest possible extent the japanese emergencies minister is facing multiple challenges that require immediate solutions and as we mentioned already russia is ready to help solve these issues i'll go through them in order of priority now on of top priority are the issues of protection from radiation that involves evacuation of the population and evacuation involves all the other issues such as provision of food and shelter connex priority has to do with a high chance of epidemic outbreaks there is a huge number of dead and we should remember that in addition to people a lot of farm animals and pets died too so that's the second issue to tackle and solve and as we're following our japanese colleagues activities we see that this problem hasn't yet been solved but i hope that it will and we're ready to support them should they need our help or consultation. the third issue is drinking water drinking water problems on such large territories wilber five hundred thousand

people having lost their homes and not only homes they also lost their sources of food and drinking water so the drinking water problem has to be addressed immediately and restoring water supplies will prevent the second priority issue i already mentioned earlier the epidemic outbreaks the next issue is a very serious one i think that we need to set up a serious expert group which would assess the whole bulk of issues related to the chemical security that's because there were some production facilities of different kinds in the affected area and as we go down the priority list there is the transportation problem due to damaged communications lines bridges and roads further there is the power supply problem now on the whole it is a very large and complex emergency situation which requires imminent solutions to multiple problems civil tenuously and that's what's important these problems are interdependent thus if the radiation protection issue fails to be solved that will mean that all issues in suing from the evacuation of people from there moving across the land will grow bigger and bigger and then one thing will lead to another

as a domino effect. how is russia helping japan what aid it would provide in. the package of what we offer our japanese counterparts can be larger than it stands at present as you know russia is the largest international rescue team currently deployed there that's one hundred sixty five people we dispatched in my twenty six helicopter it's there and it's ready to be used for a delivery including drinking water and for transporting people that's a heavy helicopter capable of carrying up to twenty tons of cargo we are working on a request from our japanese partners for a batch of warm blankets bed linen and all other essentials for accommodating people in shelters on top of that we offered medical help we have two hospitals which can be rolled out within three hours these hospitals have already operated in turkey afghanistan kosovo we've worked all over the world these are highly qualified specialists with extensive experience we also offered our drinking water filtering units i mean i'm not telling you what kind of help we have offered

further we offered services of our experts with experience from response to the chernobyl disaster the receiving party naturally can see him decide when to accept one or another kind of help and resources including help from abroad over one hundred countries have offered their help. your job is to rescue people even in situations the young man's control in the current situations what resources and that's important to rescue. the most important resource now is evacuation i mean setting up the evacuation facilities and shelters to ensure that people would have places which would be as comfortable as possible for them to live through this hard time before recovery again speed this requires medical support supplies of water and food providing sheltered this may not sound like much as i say it but it involves a great deal to do it's a lengthy large scale operation because it also involves children and infants and providing them with baby food it involves taking care of sick people such as diabetes patients thus we need to provide insulin. and many other things further it

requires medical monitoring of people's conditions and ailments and it requires medical therapy in short it's a huge number of things but today in the current situation this is challenge number one all other tasks will ensue as progress is made as you watching your colleagues found the plan would you say you'd act exactly the same way or maybe differently but. it's hard to teach and tell anything here we're trying to give some advice on things we can see from here in order to tell exactly how we would act under such circumstances we'd have to be in their shoes and things that we know that we have experienced we include in our reports and we deliver them to the japanese side i should say that many experts from japan came to our country to study the chernobyl disaster they studied the after effects on the environment on children and adults on the thyroid gland on vegetation they invested a huge amount of money in these studies and have done a large amount of work together with russian researchers thus they did their best

to use that situation to their advantage i believe that as bad as it may sound now we and our experts must do our best to use the situation to our advantage in order to render help that's our task number one and secondly in order to ensure that mankind including russia would learn well the lessons the situation is teaching us this includes the positioning of these potentially dangerous facilities calculating all existing risks introducing new emergency response mechanisms but the most important thing is that when such large scale emergencies happen you begin to understand that wars are pointless why do people fight against each other we have this war here this is more destructive than wars such natural disasters destroy huge territories with man made objects the results of people's work and their endeavor and the worst thing of course is that people themselves die this is the enemy that we should all fight together. with frailty of our existence.

yes frailty of our existence. i agree with you but this is our common enemy forces of nature our common foe and we need to learn how to fight against it together with how can society prepare for such disasters in your opinion is it possible for a clothesline to protect itself from its an army of this magnitude. the risk management system that our japanese colleagues have for counteracting such natural disasters both our quakes and tsunami is one of the best in the world they check their emergency alert systems daily every day at a certain time sound signals go off and if they are not heard somewhere people should report this i was at this place and i didn't hear the alarm but japanese also have regular drills practicing emergency procedures for cases like tsunami and earthquakes so a group that includes experts my colleagues people who deal with emergency situations scientists nuclear energy and territorial planning specialists and study seismic effects on continents and violence should work in the framework of the un

and come up with serious guidelines for positioning of these facilities this flow knows no borders or customs no matter what kinds of barriers we try to create it crosses all of them so well together we will have to answer the question about what could have been done differently in order to secure nuclear facilities from tsunami threats we have to build them far from the coastline as for earthquakes there are certain issues there too in this case all eleven reactors responded to the seismic activity and began to shut off automatically the problem was with the cooling systems. if the shagger the japanese are giving minimal information about what is really going on there and how they're handling this what kind of requests sattler have you made on the situation at a japanese nuclear power plant. there are two risk categories here the first category has to do with what happens inside the country risks are very high there are specialists and authorities are not trying to cover up those risks and taking steps to evacuate people and also offer

a new methods of protection if we talk about the situation outside japan in the bordering states we will have to assess any damages to the environment later sea water was used for cooling and we know about the water cycle so it goes back into the environment we will have to see how this will affect the sea it's flora and fauna naturally our service works twenty four seven we're taking measurements hourly we have a special aviation group they take samples of the air on the come chaka peninsular sakhalin island to morsi cry we doubled the number of our monitoring stations or samples are taken and analyzed them regularly in the last two days we simulated the worst case scenario and it showed that there is no serious threat for the russian people. with any floor area. of course we have to monitor the development of this situation a week ago nobody could have predicted the situation we see now who would have thought that six we actors would be in critical condition so we need to monitor and assess all this there is a saying that we learn from our mistakes such

a big tragedy is a serious lesson for us all i would even compare it to a laboratory there is a lot to learn from this part of the japanese authorities are urging people to stay inside this is something that was learned after chernobyl if you remember evacuation in chernobyl started in the midst of the heaviest radiation leak the right thing would have been to stay inside keeping all windows and doors closed the evacuation should have started when everything was ready so that people didn't have to wait for buses outside standing there for two or three hours it should have been done very quickly so they learned their lessons we. learning our lessons of course we want our colleagues to handle it successfully i told the ambassador that if there is anything we can help with we are ready to do it and we'll go what is the death toll according to experts assessment. it's hard to tell even japanese sources are giving different numbers of dead and missing people but our guys are saying that considering the state of destruction and density of population the death toll will be over ten thousand of course i should mention the lessons we

learned from chernobyl as an emergency response force we built a large robotic center we have big heavy robots that are able to clean up debris in high levels of radiation or when there is a chemical hazard i highly recommend you visit this center look at what these robots can do it is important for people in our country to understand that we have been moving forward improving emergency response mechanisms for this. thank you very much for this interview thank you.

the. headlines on all t.v. japan struggles to avert a nuclear meltdown are using military helicopters to drop water on the overheating reactors of the tsunami damaged fukushima power plant but a lack of progress leads to fears the scale of the disaster is being played down. the head of the u.n. nuclear watchdog finally heads to japan and criticism the atomic agency has failed to get on top of the crisis. the unfolding of fukushima disaster could severely damage the image and the bank account both for the u.s. for was designed to station and use over the rethinking its business dealings with general electric. and in libya pro-government forces regained

a more ground from rebels russia is pushing for a u.n. cease fire resolution after declaring colonel gadhafi non-grata. i want us with the headlines now with all sports. hello welcome to the sports news thank you for joining me out here are the headlines semifinal targets all about you live look to move into the last ball is a take on champions act passed on the road. while advantage moscow spots like have a one goal lead as they prepare to host an x. in the deciding second leg on a busy last sixteen night in your local league. and the last eight chelsea and brown with great snap up the last quarter final places had a friday's draw in the champions in. but let's start on the ice where k.h.

are regular season winners and god are in action in the playoff quarter finals against metal or sides a side to all in their seven series and it's also all square in this game after the period later this don't sell about july have could go through to the last two or three warm up in their series against as fast and need just one more we're joined in the semifinals walk over the first team through probably an overtime win against another reader on wednesday look up an insult for two down hoff way through the second period they could use amazing comeback at its end up telling off grabbing a brace to never return for all that was his first and second set the game into overtime and xander again in the window. into the last ball of the playoffs afterwards he said lockley came out with guns blazing with a period after inspiring team to fight them up the row men were next by the postcard in the western conference final. so their winning their best of seven

series for one last goals in petersburg could have joined them in the last four they threw away early lead to lose and three want to atlanta a nice however it's still scarred who are better placed to progress leading their tight streets i rule . i thought that the players have seen it and i've seen plenty will be wearing black armbands during the second leg of their europa league last sixteen times in petersburg tonight the move is in support of zinnias and russia goalkeeper just love mother failed was wife died in a car crash early this morning one of their has been replaced in gold by you're not following the tragedy the match will go ahead as planned the northern prodrive looking to overturn the three no deficit to their own it's an age when china's but that is court and his side can manage this reach the quarter finals the strikers alexander the cut off alexander coach of course back in training after injury problems. and is now also playing catch up in their type also having lost one nil

to the portuguese side in moscow last week they have to score in portugal tonight and i'll be hoping strikers while their love and saving do we can find the net but you have each being without a goal since the russian winter break the deal will undergo a late fitness test and for them to simply hunger and mark gonzalez are both back fit. and must watch that moscow have the best chance of all three russian sides after winning one unless i aks in the first leg the red and whites had to endure a surprise for all defeat at ross golf in the russian premier league on monday but for larry carpenter bella hoping to put that behind them in front of the home fans the pollution of the stadium. for you should go shake logical it can be played at restored and the one who is going to play against the yanks are worlds apart we're going to field a lot of players should be cleared to stop at all so i don't think their defeat could dampen their moods that's why i don't have any particular fears on the spot auction role and head of the game of. opinions i.x.

haven't had the greatest preparation ahead of the clash their star forward missed their final training session after being stuck at passport control with these are problems which has been. points already faced a tough test against spartak moscow side they hadn't beaten in free attempts however that task may become even harder after nearly instantly mani was forced to sit out in some its final training session as he was trying to get past possible control of most who should he need to airports although serbia has a visa waiver program with russia solely money has an old passports which of course will hold up what you have to do as a professional you have to be focused and. war from the. issues and it is a shoo in especially for mickey pointed. to be for those. and . hope for the end of the of the game even. if you didn't already have

enough problems to bowl who played on the losing side both slaves for i.x. in the champions league quarter final against second nine to ninety eight he'll also have to do with my goalkeeper martin still can burke production number one broke his palm and will be out of action for at least six weeks of course are one of the best goalkeepers. of course so we have a lot of confidence. in your room. if. only you know what you hear from the. port authority fusion but for us different from everybody ok. we'll also have to contend with spot attacks plastic peach but the board doesn't believe that will hinder his men but more important is finding the back of the new it's something that came to chance doing the first leg unfortunately then they were unable to find and we possibly can hopefully we're going to create chances. before normally if you create. real

chances maybe a half to two chances. and. if you only get half of the. normal european level means that you have created a lot of cheers and confidence. now we'll see goals of the sponsor called a slender lead from the first leg now that you are in a three way battle for the guts to try toll and last last message me almost two months ago but they're hoping they can find you managed to get their first win against a russian opponents at a fourth or ten spots i care and with a great chance of making the last eight after a fine one. a week ago or they're up against an iron siva have been in good form recently and only lost twice since the start of the new year and frank was team showed we can go in amsterdam very more than capable of creating chances out of our have to start taking them if they're going to have any chance of making the quarter

finals are played r.t. . so there is a classless taking place all on this thursday night elsewhere liverpool need to overcome brad garrett and thought after losing the first leg one nil granger space p.s.v. eindhoven following a goal the story bathurst match expenses nasa says he had a tough task say has to happen to go from the first leg of the ukraine. and russia around the pit stops at the last quarter final spots. the champions wait until now draw with pride when hagan at stamford bridge was enough to see carlo ancelotti side progress chelsea had a to go cushion from the first leg and dominated wednesday night's match both sides on the chances and under torres came on as a substitute for the players that still could not break his goal drought so goal this is how it finished chelsea three two mill congregates. likelihood of their former was good right. before the bubble. obviously we didn't want to take a risk to do it again roberta world again we are going to be friends and we all

get be more proud to be friends even when we had a lot of what we did with what we have obviously you have to be more resides there you've thrown. around real madrid doing chelsea in the last days after a comfortable three know when i believe of the bone about. eight minutes before the interval and second hostile acts and carrying guns about and did not put the spanish side through for one another guess it also keeps intact the incredible home record of coach joe singer a new who hasn't lost a home as a manager since february two thousand and two he says there's nothing extraordinary about his latest achievements. so i feel i feel their pain and i think the players they feel it and they know that. their coach wants a challenge and is a challenge so. for me everything is better and we are in the quarter finals. is normal is is is not. is long. term is now and world number one rafael nadal has

led the top seeds charge into the quarter finals of the indian wells masters the spaniard enjoyed his toughest match so far in california history made it through in straight sets against indian qualifier some that got there by seven five six four the final still there except the call of it was waiting in the next round. also through a second seed roger federer this was the master proving too strong for teenage wildcard why morrison the local boy did force a tie break in the first set i dropped a laptop seconds six three into it back you can assess the impact. and novak djokovic trained the easiest way in the day that is truly an open champion still very close to a picture trick speak in just over an hour to see just one second i says you can't just go through the next. now some action from the n.b.a. where the orlando magic and bounced back from their loss on monday with

a ninety three eighty nine when the milwaukee bucks one howard made a game high as you know if you want points and twenty two rebounds the magic inside swung down if the nine eleven line lead in the first quarter he struggled to do without it without a sprained ankle budgets and missed the game due to migration the game to get into overtime besides rolando off the court wings. and elsewhere others are going on the road for utah against minnesota other winners on wednesday night or denver troy boston dallas and idaho as well as new orleans houston cleveland and philadelphia. boxing and heavyweight champion vitali klitschko says he'll be facing the most difficult opponent of his career on saturday as he defends his w.b.c. title against a new solace in cologne but boxers enter the ring on wednesday for the right training sessions in front of hundreds of spectators so let's is. from that and the former olympic and swirls around champion remains unbeaten after seventeen fights

as a professional that's although respectful of his opponent's record thirty nine year old is supremely confident he once thought you wanted his forty three fights instantiate not that i think he's wants to go according to my career i have some special points in my brain. he's very fast but i know he's very good speed embedded wire use aspirant berkner where very very good skills skills like the air mile border and that's why i. make some special present special present. and that's all the support for this bill isn't. hungry for the full story we've got it's. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on the t. .

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