to leave them to join the church in new delhi who. babyhood to carry election ramona close and the other maidens hotel believe that part of the movie don't shift he was honest. this is true noble on steroids this is this will be worse than shwe and japan it struggles to avert a nuclear meltdown because attempts to cool the reactors of the fukushima power plant bring a no immediate success three of the scale of the disaster is being played down. the i.a.e.a. has absolutely no ability to deal with this problem any more than the japanese government has the ability to deal with this problem the head of the un a nuclear watchdog finally heads to japan and that criticism of 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 of the u.s.

for who designed the station india has already rethinking its business dealings with general electric and in other news. as more market that he continues to regain control of libya from the opposition russia pauses for a cease fire resolution in the u.n. security council after having declared. it with r.t. live from moscow where it's now just after five pm. struggling to regain control of the overheated reactors at the tsunami damaged fukushima nuclear plant after a series of blasts and fires forty engineers involved in managing the crisis have reportedly sustained injuries including radiation exposure military. helicopters

have dropped seawater on to the stricken reactors try to avert a nuclear meltdown they've also used five of fire engines loaded with thirty tons of water three out of six reactors are reported to be in a critical condition u.s. officials haven't criticized the japanese government suggesting they are underplaying the seriousness of the situation as i bet it has been to the quake hit regions to meet firsthand the people who are fleeing the area terrified at the threat of about them. the sheer force of the tsunami was hard to comprehend until i saw this faecal zone houses it impossible angles it was as if the ground surface had been ripped off that is 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 but police were on high alert and suddenly there was panic. and warnings of

a five metre high wall of water heading our way 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 and the relief center in sendai the newly homeless are given blankets and a cardboard sheet all nineteen floors of this building a full with everyone from infants to the elderly. the night i spent here was bitterly cold and virtually sleepless some could be here a weeks first an earthquake then the tsunami now radiation road blocks around fukushima appeared as early as saturday since then the fear has been steadily building just like the kids i 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 anxieties

prompted essential stockpiling as the threat escalates more and more leaving i was traveling with his crew from new zealand when we heard there had been a fourth explosion had planned quickly changed to an exit strategy that nigga arthur 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 it happened was i have to save my baby how do you feel about the radiation i scared. 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 this. deal. when it comes to radiation the people i've met year aren't sure the government's telling the full story and most aren't willing to wait around to find out either

bennett artsy tokyo. be official number of those killed in japan's catastrophic quake and tsunami has now reached five and a half thousand nine thousand others however remain unaccounted for our correspondents are at the center of events and reporting on what's happening all around them. first time experiences on our twitter page. about the enormous lines of parked cars all across the country with the owners being desperate for petrol. updates as well and today's other news on a japan's crisis loans you are to me underscore. energy adviser on all the gunderson says that while the japanese government may be seeking to downplay the scale of the nuclear crisis that doesn't change the fact the situation is critical i think the consequences could be disastrous. this is true noble on steroids this is this will be worse than sure the radiation exposure

so high and sight and 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 big heat is the highest if there's any lucky thing that's happened so far it's the wind is mainly give low now to see 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 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 studied sure noble and i was an expert witness on three mile island and the government is always behind the eight ball 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 too at the oil spill and they underestimated the amount of oil that seems to be the way bureaucracies work. ahead of the international atomic energy agency says that he is heading to japan on thursday it's almost a week after the nuclear crisis began. critics say the watchdog is likely behind fending to keep on top of the crisis. more from so. 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 ground zero where disaster hits the

people remain struggling to keep the reactors under control but wait where is the international atomic energy agency exponent of the peaceful use of nuclear power there here in japan arriving four days after the first explosion at the nuclear plant the i.a.e.a. is a promoter of nuclear power. is not any more efficient at solving this problem than fema was solving hurricane katrina's problems in the u.s. when the twin approved when the proof is in the problem 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 seem to have their little direct involvement in it in fact until now and the only source of information was the japanese government for years they were going to zation has been busy with their mission statement to maintain nuclear energy for peaceful means in two thousand and five and will 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 and sentient 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 in workers who have to battle fire smoke and radiation and what remains of the fukushima power plant there's only fifty people allowed in the plants of the mobs and they're working fifteen minute shifts which is which is very little and they have to work very many things point homes because remote control installations have gone down. the main operating room is is not usable because of the radiation levels they're working under extremely difficult circumstances to try to prevent the worst from the worst with all sixth reactors showing signs of instability only fifty people remain safe to peace with

the problem putting their lives at risk while the high in my view. seems you before you can watch on from a safe distance if you. tokyo japan and russia is closely watching the situation and it's far east in the case any radioactivity reaches the coast there from a japan our correspondents in the city of of light of our stock and sharing her thoughts on our party twitter page i don't want to get a job or she's got her hands on a geiger counter which are obviously is like an imaginary now in a high demand in that region and career is monitoring the radiation levels for us right now and we'll have more updates later on our team underscored. what the far east remains on alert for radioactivity russian a rest of us in japan we've got a search of one hundred square kilometer area around the devastated city of sendai party site with sort of russia's ministry or minister rather about emergency

situations for discussion on the challenges facing japan's government that's coming up next hour but there's a preacher. a week ago nobody could have predicted the situation we see now who would have thought at six we actors would be in critical condition so we need to monitor recess all this there is a saying that we learn from our mistakes 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 into 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 mankind including russia would learn well the lessons this situation is teaching us. and

our whole gunter as part of a beyond the nuclear campaign group in washington and says the construction of the reactors at fukushima plant the danger of radioactive contamination even more likely. clearly two of the containment systems are damaged one may very well be unit three may very well be ruptured. in addition to the three reactor accidents all six of these nuclear power plants have tremendous amounts of nuclear waste stored in pools on top of the roof outside of containment and clearly unit number four the last report that we have it has lost all water cooling the fuel is which in the unit four they had offloaded the fuel out of the reactor so they put the entire reactor core into this rooftop pool so it's out of

containment it's lost it has no water and clearly we have a full court meltdown maybe on its way without any containment whatsoever then there are the two other pools in the five and six that have been heating up and the concern is that if they do not restore power to that facility that all six reactors could become fully engaged in a meltdown. rather disastrous the events in japan coupled with concerns voiced by several european leaders are making the country's economy harder to find out about how the crisis is threatening the stability of its currency and business bulletin later in the program but for now that's a cross over to the business desk for a preview. what do you have for us right now. going crisis in japan is obviously going to have an effect on the global energy industry first of all japan is the first largest consumer of oil and therefore demand for oil is being questioned right now and also what's on the question is the future of nuclear energy so we're

going to be looking at those into shoes as of course we will be looking at economic consequences of the devastation what's happening right now in around fifteen minutes time jointly. try to make sure thanks for that we'll see you soon the crisis at the u. fukushima plant has led to criticism of the make up of the nuclear reactors designed by american general electric back in the nineteenth seventy's the company is unlikely to be held liable though however major customers like india are not rushing to sign new contracts with them as correspondent has more from new delhi on the indian reaction to japan's disaster. reaction here in india has been mixed especially considering that the chairman of g.e. jeffrey immelt was actually in india this week promoting his company's interest in investing millions of dollars into india's nuclear program which is estimated to be worth around one hundred fifty billion dollars he announced that he plans to spend five million dollars here within the next five years but obviously many indians are

worried about what they're seeing over in japan g.e. did design those nuclear reactors that have caused so much damage and destruction in fukushima and according to japanese law she will not be held liable for any of god which could save them potentially tens to hundreds of billions of dollars now this comes on top of a huge scandal that's rocking india today wiki leaks the whistle blowing web site actually released thousands of cables showing that americans knew about bribes to indian politicians to make them sign that the u.s. indo nuclear deal back in two thousand and eight so that's clearly not helping american image here in the subcontinent right now india is planning on increasing its nuclear atomic generation thirteen times by twenty thirty so there are several american companies not just g.'s that are very keen on trying to get a stake in that but as of right now india doesn't want to have another potential

disaster like what they're seeing over in japan happening here especially given the fact that she isn't really being held responsible or accountable for what's happening over there so only time will tell but as you've seen since the days following the disaster g.e. stock has been tumbling so we're going to have to wait and see what a box that has on its future plans to build nuclear reactors around the world and here in india as well. as your correspondent for a street reporting well contribute that's says that nuclear energy will be used in the u.s. trade both in politics and the media well able to defend their interests even in the face so that was awesome such as japan. what's going on here is we've got general electric even after the comcast merger still has a significant stake and n.b.c. we see the nuclear lobby through the nuclear energy institute and all the other page shills in his town 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 his country and president obama i would add not only has jeffrey immelt as it is jobs and competitiveness of advisor on that white house panel but he took a lot of money from exelon a chicago based nuclear power plant company so basically what admiral said many decades ago get the corporate board room out of the newsroom now we see the effects this. keeping you from. japan you can do so want our facebook account you can join the heated debate share your thoughts on the situation in egypt page also has all the latest videos and news and analysis on this and all of our top stories that is our facebook page and lots of lots of items there to enjoy. some other news here on r.t.

and in libya fighting continues as forces loyal to close in on the main rebel stronghold of benghazi. just ten kilometers from the city reports interest that comes after rebels rejected an ultimatum by khadafi to leave the city by thursday morning fighting also continues in the eastern town of ajdabiya and the army here now says it has regained. the u.n. security council is trying to decide on whether to impose a no fly zone and sanctions with russia pushing for a cease fire and we can now work across life if you want is you've got to give us more details on this and. russia has a veto power on any of the security council resolutions that's been its response as . well along with the international community or russia has strongly criticized a moment ago that these actions in libya in fact just a few days ago president dmitry medvedev has called gaddafi persona non-grata

meaning that he is unwelcome here in the country and. is his fellow you do the also burned guy that you from conducting any financial operations in. previously moscow also the set of sanctions ideas going to be which prohibits the sales of forms and includes travels of travel and financial burns but when it comes to the north why review the resolution truly discussed by the un security council russia is against and stands for the complete. all for violence in libya and is calling for a cease fire that is being backed by china and germany which is currently a temporary member of the youngsters security council while the actual proposal is backed by great britain and france the united states on the other hand they see but they're not sure anymore if this resolution is relevant to the situation there on the spot we've heard and else now since coming out of washington saying that

perhaps the u.n. security council needs to start thinking about other steps which go beyond this resolution and we've been discussing this whole issue throughout the entire day on wednesday there are set to discuss it on thursday as well and according to russia's foreign minister studio who spoke to the recent meeting of the g eight foreign ministers in the paris he says when it comes to this no fly resolution there are several stumbling points the first one is that even though it was supported by the arab league the haven't me the a concrete detailed proposal on hell this no fly resolution should be no fly zone resolution should be conducted it's not clear whether it will need the use of force and russia strongly strongly stands against any foreign military intervention in libya and any force used by the international community because perhaps the we

may work is that if this no fly resolution is taken up that would mean that nato forces will have to patrol the skies but in order to provide their safety levy and aircraft systems will have to be attacked before heads is that different means of the use of force and actually the arab league is against a need for military intervention in libya as well and another of our facts here is that. even though the arab league has supported the resolution. more good as it continues to regain control of the libyan t.v. series from the opposition so it's not clear at the moment if this resolution will be relevant anymore if it will help to ease the situation and resolve this crisis in libya and while the international community disputes all all know what needs to

be done in order to help resolve this crisis this violence and start this violence many analysts say that time is running out for them to make this decision was over you go over the past several days as the world has been watching what's been happening in japan with the tsunami and the earthquake certainly kind of gadhafi has made so forth all progress against the protesters other people as well. after forty years of power by gadhafi has his own unique view on what is happening in the country right now. we are dealing with something important to us from abroad i mean al qaeda terrorists leadership began to tell the world about protests in libya about shooting of thousands killed they sent their reports to the news agencies and all of a sudden we found over the whole world was against libya can we have had no protests how could news agencies reports and streams the number of victims is one

hundred fifty to two hundred how could one speak about thousands of how can the un security council and the whole world decide based on media reports and it's now difficult to change world opinion and perception of what's going on. where you live or from the heart of the russian capital or the business news with the rhetoric. thanks very much rory japan's economic aftershock has led to concerns over the possible drop and demand for energy for the world's third largest economy nuclear energy has come under question as well with japan's plants on the verge of collapse meanwhile oil and gas futures and risen on thursday would light sweet and moving above one hundred dollars per barrel once again christine says corrino the oil and gas equity on this the fan and pours in london says gas producers are set to enjoy a spell of rising gas prices. oil is being driven by effect in the middle east not so much by japanese seek to ration natural gas prices on the other hand being

impacted by the japanese problems and it's going to be posix for the natural gas markets because prices have been depressed there we have a lot of oversupply of ellen g. and natural gas so hopefully abuse will put things up and it will be good morning instead of having natural gas markets appraise for the next you know three four years now it might only be for about a year and a half which is good for natural gas producers like gasper a. japanese yen is the highest level against the u.s. dollar since the end of world war two climbed as high as seventy six and a quarter in u.s. trading on wednesday when it since fall and back and trading at around seventy nine per dollar market watchers blame the stronger yen on the repatriation of foreign currency by japanese insurance firms he while g seven finance ministers will meet on the discuss how to deal with the global market volatility analysts expect

ministers to give japan the go ahead to intervene in currency markets and steady earlier this week japan's central bank injected two hundred eighty four billion dollars in order to stabilize the country's financial markets which have been hit by a massive selloff similar to now. there's actually some rebounding in the nikkei today to raise greek gains on contradicting myself against some of the. games we're seeing a drop of one and a half a percent since shares in japan and elsewhere in asia dropped after u.s. officials said the risk of radiation from japan's earthquake stricken nuclear plant was rising hong kong's hang seng also closed down two percent this is not however sending a chill global markets yet again we're seeing u.s. markets after the drop in. jobless claims will further weaken the last four which fortified investor confidence european stocks are also regaining some of the losses

incurred in previous sessions analysts say the key driver for the market is the notion that g seven before break to help ease the markets emergency meeting of global central bankers and finance ministers is scheduled for tomorrow among the stocks currently enjoying the rebound or world that show and which are both up by more than three and a half percent here in russia. trading in the lack of long and a half percent on average investors are keeping a close watch on our plates on japan's post quake radiation crisis high oil prices are providing support to the markets so we've got some of the stocks banking shares one of the strongest gayness is see the world bank up to a half percent rosneft in luke or they're at one point eight and three point two percent this is as oil has managed to gain more than two percent in the first recession. one of russia's biggest industrial agricultural holding sort of says it's planning to hold an initial public offering on the london stock exchange last

year the company hopes to list twenty percent of its shares in russia postpone the i.p.o. after the company's value of around one point two billion dollars failed to meet expectations now the company aims to get at least three hundred billion orders of finance potential acquisitions. now she's looking at other options for the south stream gas pipeline project every prime minister says the state is considering lowering costs so even replacing it with a liquefied natural gas system instead becomes after turkey's delegation visited moscow on wednesday for discuss several bilateral issues but key energy matters including south stream failed to make any headway trekkies approval still needed to construct pipelines under c section well she's already signed agreements with other countries to construct the overland network live snake of every city capital believes however that there is no alternative to the south stream. as far as. it is concerned there are not many alternatives most broadly here there will not be any l. and g. production on the black sea shore simply for the reason that the more nike shoes

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