in the. japan struggles to avert a nuclear meltdown but his attempts to cool the reactors at the fukushima power plant bring no immediate success it's fear 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 u.n. nuclear watchdog finally heads to japan amid criticism the atomic agency has to get on top of the crisis. the unfolding focused human disaster could severely damage the image and bank account of the u.s. for the station and it's already rethinking its business dealings with general electric plus in other news this hour. as more money go back to continues to the

games and school would be able to be opposition forces for the cease fire resolution in the u.n. security council after having to be clear. about that. live from our studios here in central moscow this is with you twenty four hours a day just past ten pm now in the russian capital and four am in japan where the country's struggling to regain control of the overheated reactors at the tsunami damage from ashima nuclear plant after a series of blasts and thought forty engineers involved in managing the crisis have reportedly sustained injuries including radiation exposure well military helicopters have dropped seawater on to these stricken reactors trying to avert a nuclear meltdown three out of six reactors are reported to be in a critical condition. with

a white paper saying rising from facility number three radiation levels of risen in the thirty kilometer zone surrounding the station experts say the area is being exposed to a twelve of those radiation every six hours u.s. officials have criticized the japanese government suggesting they are under playing the seriousness of the situation a lot is either barely has been through the quake hit regions to meet first head people fleeing the area terrified at the threat of meltdown. 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. 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 the . 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 eight 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 a newly homeless a given blankets and a cardboard sheet all nineteen floors of this building a full with everyone from infants and the elderly. the night i spent here was basically cold and virtually sleepless some could be here for weeks first an earthquake then the tsunami now radiation roadblocks around people she met appeared as early as saturday since then here's been steadily building just like the kids i took an hour to get past this jan of cards wanting to fill up feeling 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 been a fourth explosion that planned quickly changed to an exit strategy at new garter i met this young family from sendai the 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 said. that's why i've 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 available ticket is not safe to say. you know. 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 either

bennett artsy tokyo. well the death toll from japan's catastrophic quake and tsunami has reached almost five thousand seven hundred over nine thousand others remain unaccounted for and our correspondents are at the center of events and reporting on what's happening around them and you can get their first hand experiences on our twitter page bodies of a bit of reports on how the normally neon lit shopping areas of downtown tokyo are now in pitch darkness you can check out he's not paints and also today's other news on japan's crisis all its parts see under school. well ahead of the international atomic energy agency says he's heading to japan almost a week after the nuclear crisis began critics say the watchdog is lagging behind in failing to keep on top of events has more now from tokyo. a mr force 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 nuclear disaster if the people remain struggling to keep the reactors are the control but wait where is the international atomic energy agency the exponents of the peaceful use of nuclear power here 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. the i.a.e.a. 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 in the proof is in the putting 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 barely will direct involvement in it in fact until now and the only source of information was the japanese government for years the organization has been busy

with their mission statement to maintain nuclear energy for peaceful means in two thousand and eight 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 sanction pieces 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 at what remains of the fukushima power plant there's only fifty people allowed on the plans of their work in fifteen minutes shifts which is which is very little and they have to work very many things by hand because remote control installations have gone down. the main operating room is not usable because of radiation levels they're working under extremely difficult circumstances to try

to prevent the worst from the worst reactors show in finding the guilty only people who mean a key piece with a problem putting their lives at risk while behind my do you. watch on distance involved he took you know well for more let's talk to action he's a journalist and author and also he's been a catastrophe risk analyst for a lloyd's of london syndicate thanks very much indeed for joining us now he's been criticized for not reacting fast enough but they are now sending experts as we speak what more could they do gosh will russia today covers these stories very differently to the rest of the media i mean it is actually going to get released a statement in the past hour or so saying something like it's possible it could get worse i think what's been revealed is such as we saw in that report this is

basically a nuclear lobbying agency and when it came to iran what it was doing was well baradei strands in egypt might be affected i don't know if it was being bugged of course we now know there were tragic suicides what else are the i doing and they keep saying we rely on the japanese government i think it's a disgrace and i think people will have to. realizing that the i.a.e.a. and the whole framework under which it operates will have to be reformed if nuclear power is here that stays and ensure you need a watchdog ensure that you can materials don't get into the wrong hands red states terrorists and the like and that's exactly what it's doing isn't it. well there definitely needs to be a lot of regulation it's noticeable that the focus. plant in particular originally built by general electric or on those plans raised fears in u.s. regulatory agencies in the early one nine hundred seventy s. then again by the u.s. nuclear regulatory commission about how there were charges of ninety percent

meltdowns in certain cases of fuel rods because the design of these reactors was at fault and was trying to be economical and i think we also have to review the idea of privatized nuclear power because privatized nuclear means cutting corners and i think we're watching those corners being cut today and also we know that this company that operates the fukushima reactors has previously had big resignations a hundred people were involved in a conspiracy not too long ago regarding nuclear reactors in japan so tell us more about your experience then as a as a risk analyst what would your assessment your person assessment of the consumer been before this disaster but the fact that it should have been built there at all . i think obviously firstly we all share the story of for all those grieve those thousands hundreds of thousands suffering because of the geophysical nature of what happened but as for nuclear power building it on a fault line i think it has to be there has to be

a question and it's noticeable that all the green environmental movement along with every nuclear law being that has been changing the whole media coverage of what's happening in fukushima it wasn't too long ago i think it was a few hours after the earthquake hit japan that the i think the reactors affirming the analysts that are invited on to corporate television stations continually saying things are always going to be ok things are going to be alright and day by day by day we realize that now even the capital city has a radiation levels was not being faithful. dangerous it's like the movie akira kurosawa made in the past ten years about what will happen because of japanese japan's nuclear program and it's heavily use of it and i think now we know germany sweden venezuela indonesia italy france all these countries are on hold what does this mean then for the future of nuclear energy after all of this is happened i

mean many critics will say this of course doesn't indicate their argument against nuclear power but it surely is the future way of powering developing nations and there really aren't enough sustainable or developed sustainable resources to replace it. i think clean coal technology will have to be looked at again in my previous guys as a catastrophe risk analyst i looked at these risks for all of commercial basis and places like lloyds of london munich re swiss re their shares are up that's why the stock markets of europe and the dow jones are up it's good for insurance agencies because they know the premiums are going to go up this will have a knock on effect on commercial concerns about nuclear power because the way they're insured means governments take most of the risk i think the whole of nuclear power generation is now under a under a cloud literally and i think we have to look at the idea that why is the united

states why countries like that not having solar power with all that all their sunshine built and as for other countries there has to be massive investment away from a technology that there's the risk is remote the consequences are so catastrophic and that lobby full of money has been has been manipulating the media the banking industry the. i mean the whole sections of societies around the world for the developing the global south to the developed world it's it's no good at all i know you're not a scientist but you're a journalist you've been following this you've also had as we've mentioned experience in risk analysis how do you think the events will turn out there in japan in the near future. i think it's fascinating that the scientists seem to be so widely differing i mean if you follow the money who's getting the grants if you're getting a grant from a company involved in nuclear technology and you invite them onto

a television program or interview them for a newspaper i think we know what they say i think it's very difficult to see what happens now but whatever it is. whatever it is i think this is this is a huge shock to the world right nuclear industry and let's hope that the traditional forms of energy being used with new technologies could be the way forward because we can't have a situation where one of the most advanced countries in the world all those brilliant architects who were able to retrofit buildings so the because of the earthquake nothing happened even they failed manmade technology when it comes to this plant tony you forgot ok thanks very much and if your time journalist and author joining us there live in london thank you. when events of the for power plant has left people beyond japan's border wondering whether they're in harm's way in russia's far east just across the water from japan they're worried about the threat of exposure but as

a country who's in vladivostok reports fear is sometimes more dangerous than reality we see the nuclear catastrophe in japan but we are closing nuclear plants away from these kind of dinosaur technology it's hard not to be gripped by panic when the world's high and mighty are sounding the alarm the closer you are typical the bigger your chances of speaking out the virus which is spreading more so if you're not a physicist or a doctor people in russia's far east divided from japan by a strip of water four hundred miles across but are quick to react. but my friend called me and said that she's leaving the city i'm not in such a panic yet but i'm already taking iodine just in case. but radiation levels remain completely normal and doctors are fool us into sounding a different kind of alarm list with the president is that if anything really

serious happens there things like consuming large amounts of oil going already as water people often say they're going to do such things won't help the reverse they may seriously damage their health because i don't function and it may well happen and probably will as well everything in japan goes back to normal many of our people with problems with their foibles and. everyone wants to be on top of official reports preparing for the unknown many go even further by personal radiation meters geiger counters price is no object. in the last three days we sold out our monthly stock of guided counters we now have to turn to our suppliers for an additional shipment. taking reasonable precautions there's no better think at all unless tiny threatens to become worse than the catastrophe itself that was the case with the outbreak of the h one n one swine flu virus which helped drugs

companies earn billions today in russia sport is the transport companies and pharmacies are cashing in on the pilot but at stake is the region's largest business fishing. it accounts for eighty percent of little corner me russia's largest seat in the pacific ocean local restaurants offering fresh seafood from the waters of japan are already losing clients customers are afraid of radioactive fish even histeria continues wholesale fish markets could be next to suffer i mean no silver lining to a radioactive clouds that may never arrive if they didn't achieve our r.t.e. . well across a syrupy for kashima plant has led to criticism over the make up of the nuclear reactors designed by american general electric back in the nineteen seventies the companies are likely to be held liable however major customers like india are not rushing to sign new contracts correspondent has more now 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 i assume it's a view worth around one hundred fifty billion dollars see an ounce 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 a 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 the 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 is yes planning on increasing its nuclear atomic generation thirteen times by twenty thirty there are several american companies not just g.e. 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 and chapin 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 of g.e. stocks have 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. well keeping you fully up to date with events in japan is

our facebook account and you can join the debate and share your thoughts there on the situation in japan our page also has the latest videos news and analysis on this and our other top stories. other news now libya forces loyal to colonel gadhafi have made significant gains in their offensive against the rebels they've been shelling the last opposition held city in the last also air strikes had targeted an airport just cannot much of the eastern rebel stronghold of benghazi. rebels continues the u.n. security council is expected to go to. britain france say it's necessary to prevent civilian casualties but russia says imposing the resolution could lead to military intervention and is pushing for. his from developments force. along with the international community a russia has strongly criticized moammar gadhafi actions in libya in fact just

a few days ago president dmitry medvedev has called. a meaning that he is unwelcome here in the country and neither is his fellow you the media also burns got that you from conducting any financial operations in the country and according to russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov who schooled to the recent meeting of the g eight foreign ministers in the clearest 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 we haven't needed a concrete detailed proposal on health resolution should be no fly zone resolution should be conducted in russia strongly strongly stands against any foreign military intervention in libya more lot of gadhafi continues to regain control of the a libyan t.v. series from the opposition so it's not clear if this resolution will be rolled into

any more. meanwhile color gadhafi has vowed to retake the city in benghazi within hours he's called on the rebels to surrender and said there'd be no mercy for those who don't and as his forces close in on the opposition get out himself police the situation on the ground is different to what people are seeing in the media. or out of 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 honest housing is killed and isn't there at all it's the news agency it's normal suddenly found out and the whole world is against libya with what we have had no protests how could news agencies reports not state it's a number of victims is one hundred fifty to two hundred so how could one stick about thousands how can the un security council and the whole world decide at least on media reports and it's now difficult to change world opinion on perception of what's going on at all. libya's fate is being decided at the u.n.

security council artie's cross-talk discusses why even with military intervention it may take years to remove gadhafi as legacy. ok duffy devised the germ idea system himself and it's very much important in his personality he's it's his idea of the fact there is no government as such there are no institution to not to deploy it so you sort of prevent the growth of watchful sources of power to him and so you have this idea that you have local democracy and not inferior all forms up to the top and he is some kind of just chairman of the board type figure created upstart such an illusionist does on some sort of height the tribute brutal nature of the of the regime but what i would say means is that because it's so bound up with his personality reform is very very very difficult if not impossible.

to. cross-talk coming away very soon here nazi dmitri where we have with this is something that's in a few moments stay with us live in moscow. for the full summer we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice ceased to face with the news makers. in some petersburg apologies available in hotels a story of a little ambassador release on school to go tell the truth about this hotel a true story hotel called the golden. bull takes the ski lift you can see in this column if you visit.

mona warm welcome to business r.t. 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 also come under question with japan's plant on the verge of collapse meanwhile oil and gas futures rose on thursday with light sweet moving above one hundred one dollars per barrel once again christine's this camero oil and gas i could see on this less than a pause in london says gas producers are set to enjoy a spell of rising gas prices oil is being driven by a fake in the middle east not so much japanese situation natural gas prices on the other hand being impacted by the japanese problems and it's going to be possible for the natural gas market because prices have been depressed there we have a lot of oversupply of both ellen g.

and natural gas so hopefully we'll firm things up and it will be more instead of having natural gas markets that price 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. the japanese yen hit its highest level against the u.s. dollar since the end of world war two it climbed as high as seventy six and a quarter in u.s. trading on wednesday falling back slightly in the session market watchers blame the stronger yen on the reproach relation of assets in foreign currency by japanese insurance firms he while g seven finance ministers are planning an emergency meeting to discuss how to deal with the global market volatility and this expect ministers to give japan the go ahead to intervene in the currency markets the 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 had been hit by a massive selloff. let's take a look at how the russian markets ended first day session and the r.c.s.

m i six managed to have some gains the r.c.s. closing one hospice and my sex almost two percent as investors are keeping still a close watch on updates from japan's post quake radiation crisis world prices were providing support to the market energy shares are on the rise rosneft rose almost one point nine percent lukoil is two point eight percent higher the cars banking shares were the main winners of the days by bank almost four percent is why they were just from h.s.b.c. about. i think this is a lot of uncertainty in the market and that's what's really affecting markets it's of course the terrible events that have happened in japan and there's also a lot of concern about what's happening on the inflation front because in the background you are still having a surge in commodity prices led by oil prices the real concern is that people in recovery is just too for this point of time to be able to withstand all these specials coming through and that's what's really driving markets can sound at this

point of time. and in other news one of russia's biggest industrial agricultural holdings rose agro says it's planning to hold a mishal public offering on the london stock exchange it's book run a renee since capital value of the company one point eight billion dollars that's higher than last year's road show which might even go but he had a range of one point two to one point five but there are a host of aims to get at least three hundred million in order to finance potential acquisition. that's all we have for you this hour coming up next on in the headlines to stay with us.

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