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from design the station and has already rethinking its business dealings with general electric. and in libya pro-government forces regain more ground from rebels pushing for u.n. cease fire resolution after declaring colonel gadhafi persona non grata. that's happens up to date for the moment time to meet the growing threat of a critical react to meltdown in japan and the audience the service is aided by international rescue teams and most countries by recovery effort and in an exclusive interview with r.t. show you russia's emergencies minister discusses the progress and challenges facing japan's government is next. thank you very much for finding time for us today how do you assess today's situation in japan. this 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 on such a large scale destruction and damage to the economy and industry and power production in this kind of situation it is not only about restoring the life sustainment systems for the population but also about taking care of safety of both the environment and our neighbors or. what in your opinion is on the priority list of your japanese counterpart now and how is it changing the earthquake recovery works are progressing. 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 the next 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 thirty she was drinking water drinking water problems on such a large territories with over five hundred thousand people having lost their homes that's not a. early 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 a 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 in a domino effect. going to how is russia helping japan what are we providing. 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 that we dispatched in in my twenty six helicopter if they're in 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 they've worked all over the world these are highly qualified specialists with extensive experience and 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. their job is to rescue people even in situations beyond man's control in the current situations what resources are most important for 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 for recovery gain speed this requires medical support supplies of water and food providing shelter this may not sound like much as i say is put 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 for other 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 from japan what you say you act exactly the same way or maybe differently. 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 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 this situation is teaching us this includes the positioning of these potentially dangerous facilities calculating all existing risks introducing new emergency response mechanisms if 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. 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. how

can society quit caring for such disasters is it even possible for a coastline to protect itself from the tsunami of. risk management system that our japanese colleagues have for counteracting such natural disasters both earthquakes 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 the 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 so the seismic effects on continents and islands should work in the framework of the un and come up with. it's 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 all 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 shuttle four to magically the problem was with the cooling systems. this is a group the japanese are giving more information about what is really going on there and how they are handling this what kind of risk assessment have been made of the situation at the japanese nuclear power plant. there are two risk categories here the first category has to do with what happens inside the country the 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 offering 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 environmental 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 check a peninsula cycle in korea lens and put morsi cry we doubled the number of our monitoring stations where samples are taken and analyzed them regularly in the last two days we simulated the worst case scenario and it showed that there was no serious threat to the russian people. but any scenario. of course we have to monitor the development of the situation a week ago nobody could have predicted the situation we see now who would have thought that six reactors 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. it's a lesson for us all i would even compare it to a laboratory there is a lot to learn from this you've probably heard 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 are learning our lessons of course we want our colleagues to handle it successfully i tell the ambassador that if there is anything we can help with we are ready to do it but look at who are. 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

and high levels of radiation or when there is a chemical hazard i highly recommend you visit the center because 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. thank you very much for this interview thank you. the.

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persona non-grata. the news for me in this in fifteen minutes from now in the meantime kate is next with the sports news. hello welcome to the sports news junkies are joining me and here are the headlines . semifinal target sellouts look to move into the k h l last for those take on champions are on the right. advantage spotlight story advantage not scholarship spots like a one goal lead by the pair to host an absolutely sided second like to be the last sixteen light blue. anchor last night chelsea real madrid snuffed out the last quarter final places ahead of friday's draw in the champions league. let's start on the ice was all about you live going to advance into the playoff semifinals as the men from far take on the garden cup holders i was on the road some of the best of

seven series by three with a strong and also a goal up in this match alexander i do love putting them in front of me in the second period having got edged ahead in that quarter finals against not so it is the second straight overtime victory to the regular season champions and great condition once again grabbing the winner got on wednesday last words before the thought sides of progress following an overtime win against in riga on wednesday. but on the so school to down crawford through the second period they produced an amazing comeback and found that any more grabbing a brace level that's it for ruled that was his first and second simply going into overtime there are. popped up with the winner in the rockies for the last for the playoffs afterwards he said look i came out the bulldogs blazing in the third period often inspiring team to come up the elemental lives by either atlanta all-star western conference on. winning their best of seven series all want

peace but could have joined in the last ball they threw away an early lead to these three one to atlanta i realized how. but it's still scars the loss of place to progress that's why it's reaching. play as me and i shall have become a regular size in europe in forty teams but still no longer be playing that right in front of continental hockey league fans this year who couldn't catch all president alexander misdated exclusively with lots of. folks flags. such which is. what we want to. show you through the photo say it was a really businesslike approach so well for was also favorable going for the full terms if you would for some reason of the requests from. people compare flow with the sport what you would you soon. spread or for spring.

well for. the pope or for. your hopes for the present she was a. muslim could. possibly reach into your body because maybe they could get this money for europeans but. didn't you can explain their interest. for their own game or something so complete you should ask rachel. football that the players of since and have seats benji will be wearing black armbands during the second leg of their europa league last sixteen tie ins in petersburg tonight the move is in support of the news and russia goalkeeper. whose wife died in a car crash early this morning has been replaced in gold by unity church following the tragedy but the match will go ahead as planned and all the clubs are looking to overturn the three no deficit to their dutch opponents to negotiate china's collapsing is confident his side can manage this underage in the finals with both

the strikers alexander graham bell's rights under curfew cough back in training after injury problems. found elsewhere to last one nil to porto moscow last week and have to score in portugal tonight as strikers are they love and save to libya have yet to find the back of the net since the russian winter break and to get will undergo a late fitness test however midfielders kosuke uganda and not gonzalez are both back fit. on paper spartak moscow have the best chance of all three russians i was after winning one as i x. in the first leg writing whites had to endure a surprise for me all defeat across the gulf in the russian premier league on monday but larry carp in spain are hoping to put that behind them in front of their home fans at luzhniki stadium. i'm sure you psychologically the team that played it restored and the one who is going to play against the yanks are worlds apart we're going to field a lot of players who didn't play at restore the troll so i don't think their defeat could jump in their moods that's why i don't have any particular fears on the spot

actually roll and head of the game of. however opponents i accept how the greatest preparation ahead of this match their star forward missed their final training session after being stuck at passport control if these are problems which it has more. my ex already faced a tough chance to get to sponsor his side he hadn't beaten in free attempts however that task may become even harder after nearly instantly money was forced to sit out his side spinal training session as he was trying to get past possible control of most who should be new to the airports of both serbia has a visa waiver program with russia solely money has an old passport which cause a hold up what you have to do with a professional would have to be focused and not letting. them be to a shoo in especially for me if you're. already started.

and. hopefully. if you didn't already have enough problems the ball who played on the losing side both legs for i.x. in their champions league quarter final against pantech in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight he'll also have to do what i goalkeeper martin still can burge production number one broke his palm and will be out of action for at least six weeks of course you're one of the best code companies wanting to. do so we'll have confidence. in your room. everybody. only what you're. still poured for is fusion but if we can you elaborate ok. i have to contend with star trek's plastic peach a good deal doesn't believe that. i mean it wasn't displayed in the back of the new it's something that had plenty of chances do in the first league but unfortunately

then they were unable to find a way it was and you can hopefully we're going to create chances of being before normally if you create. real good chances maybe ten and a half to two chances. and. you know if your only guitar for the. normal european league level means that you have created a lot of chances and i'm confident. you know we'll see goals of the spot i called a sin to lead from the first lady out of the. battle for the good try to domestically almost two months ago but it has been very compelling to manage to get their first win against a russian opponents every four to ten pounds lighter and with a great chance of making the last eight after a fine one nil big in amsterdam a week ago well they're up against an iron side have been in good form recently and only lost twice since the turn of the new year branca was team showed

a week ago in amsterdam more than capable of creating chances of i have to start taking them and they're going to any chance of making a record a point all's. well elsewhere five time european champions liverpool were talking about last chances against braga despite their one nil deficit after last week's away leg manager kenny dalglish has more than one reason to hope his victory home advantage is one of those and more importantly hundred cals finally fessing up to make his first start for the reds in striker is the most expensive british play over after moving from newcastle for a record fifty six million dollars in january it has been out of the thigh injury ever since captain steven gerrard is still sidelined positive the reds last week's defeat in portugal behind them. i think going to nate and probably just a bit they're going to be very disappointed. so we're going to be right to think they'll be complete. shopping but i think it's the appropriate way.

for their own reconfigured virtual. so all together there are eight matches taking place this thursday night and the range in space is the i know you've been following the goal of destroying their first match and big spenders manchester city have a really tough task as they have here you have a two goal advantage from the first leg and you've cried i was sitting manager roberto mancini remains confident his team can progress. self-important off their free media swear off there for an hour important players a clean very strong. we don't consider an effort to be your care because even if you resist call the play quadraplegic. and very important for. your attention. ten is now involved 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 and still made it through in straight sets

against indian qualifier something that never went seven five six for the final score there so i think that part of it waiting for an expanded. look so three seconds after a swiss master too strong for a teenage wild card right paris and the local boy did force a tie break in the first set wraps up the second six three. after it and this was happening. so that's even a back up explain to the easiest lead of the day it's a great open champion steve you know that well it's. just over an hour but it's considered one go the process is the shot that's going to france. and that's what sports news was but as an r.v. back in just under two hours another update until a few.