the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers. in the. twenty four hours a day this is our team live here in moscow top stories this hour japan struggles to avert a nuclear meltdown and attempts to cool the overheating reactors of the tsunami damage before pushing a power plant bring no immediate success this is a bit because the scale of the disaster is being played down. the head of the u.n. nuclear watchdog finally heads to japan amid criticism of the atomic agency has failed to get on top of the crisis. young folding because she would disaster could severely damage the image and bank accounts of the u.s. from designing the station and has written three rethinking its business dealings

with general electric. and in libya pro-government forces regain more ground from rivals russia was pushing for a u.n. cease fire resolution after it's clearly colonel gadhafi persona non grata. on amid the growing threat of a critical reactor meltdown in japan emergency services aided by international rescue teams have launched a countrywide recovery effort and in an exclusive interview r.t. sucked down with certain choices russia's emergencies minister to discuss the progress and challenges facing japan's government that interview 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 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 could also about taking care of safety of both the environment and our neighbors. are up what in your opinion is on the priority list of your japanese counterpart now and how is it changing as to 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 the 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 i pray 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 are 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 taney asli 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. 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 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 patch 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. their job is to rescue people even in situations beyond man's control and 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 before recovery gain speed this requires medical support supplies of water and food providing shelter 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 if the 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 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 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 huge amounts 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 and 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 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. how

can society prepare for such disasters is it even possible for a coastline to protect itself from its enemy of its not. the 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 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 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 ask 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. it's a shadow the japanese are giving minimal information about what is really going on there and how they are handling this what kind of risk assessment have we made of the situation at 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 they're specialists and authorities are not trying to cover up those risks and taking steps to evacuate people and also offering you. 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 and 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 peninsula sakhalin island sentry morsi cry we doubled the number of our monitoring stations for 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. but any scenario. of course we have to monitor the development of a 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 recess 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 you 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 the 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. what is it just all according to your 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. 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 deborah and high levels of radiation or when there is

a chemical hazard i highly recommend you visit the 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 on the surface. thank you very much for this interview thank you. first creamer in the cold cold clear cutting. second explains are used to blast to go deeper than the fears. heard the remains are removed by machinery. finally the unwanted soil is deposited in valley feel.

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rebels russia was pushing for a u.n. cease fire resolution after declaring colonel gadhafi persona non grata. about with more news for us in fifteen minutes from now in the meantime kate is next with the sports news. hello welcome to the sports news thank you for joining me and here are the headlines. advantage moscow as far as i call the one goal first leg lead and they're doing well in the second leg of the yards and we see last sixteen night in the europa league. ball because they are in cup for change hands after solid actually live not kept going just to reach the k.h. also the finals. as top stuff world number one caroline wozniacki strolls into the indian wells semifinals victoria azarenka retires. and the last like chelsea around but it's not the last quarter final places had

a friday's draw in the champions league. all the ice hockey in time used to come but first a football and players of the nation f.c. twenty are wearing black armbands of late in the second leg of the league last sixteen tie and some petersburg the move is in support of zenit and russia goalkeeper just love molify of his wife died in a car crash earlier those day mourning you know is that the north is deputizing from out of a falling apart at least their needs are looking to overturn the three nil deficit in the first leg of the school final few minutes the the top of the stadium two nil to the needs and lunch rock of exam because he called on targets also an action now spartak moscow who began the time with the advantage of an away goal against i.x. the city and paris sides are not opposed to turn the tables after first thank you cleats. and in just under fifteen minutes one more russian club will take to the pitch it has gone must go trailing one nil to porto want to aggregate so the army men have to score in portugal tonight as strikers

a dog i love and say you have yet to find the back of the net since the russian winter break however on a positive note midfield is simply honda and lockdowns all this up to date. and elsewhere five time european trap. is medical talk about their chances against braga just want their doctor says last weeks away like reds manager kenny dalglish hopes playing at home will make the difference while their record signing andy carroll is finally fit to make his first start captain steven gerrard is still sidelined exonerations positive his side at last week's defeat in portugal behind them. i think ordinary appropriate or just a bit of noise but we were very disappointed with. all for is related anyway we can play a lot better than what we've got. from a figure. of so up to drag that is the appropriate way and if you get that from there on. and there are two more games to tell you about is thursday night rain

just placed p.s.v. eindhoven ring of goalless draw in their first match. welcome via play because in the spanish side meeting three two on aggregate. i may want to once a chelsea and real madrid snapped up the last quarter final spots in the champions league and they all know draw with copenhagen at stamford bridge was enough to see carlo on the side progressed giles he had a chew goal cushion from the first leg fernando torres payroll as a substitute still couldn't break his gold route the initial goal was at least to nail on aggregate rollouts for you know winners of the birth of our last open to eight minutes before the ends of all second heart strikes and probably then i fell for to the spanish side troops who want to get close a reader's incredible nine year return record intact. as new to the eyes now where alexander radulov goal says into the k h l semifinals after the mental edge outgoing child on the right is one national producer rob do offers right on cue to

redirect the puck into the act for phonetic early in the second period no more goals followed in this crazy game which means it's not about to go through often with the best of seven series all one earlier on our god edged ahead in that quarter final against it was a second straight overtime victory for their regular season champions and great vision once again driving the way down one on wednesday lucky for the first side to progress falling to resign when it comes to number three on the instant. lolo found themselves cooling down half way through the second period but they produced an amazing comeback that sandbar grabbing a brace eleven the tie for that was his first and second game into overtime. xander and popped up with the winner rockets into the last of the playoffs afterwards he said locker came out with. all guns blazing in the third period after spying team talk i them up well i meant one next by our last

post in the western conference final. so like oh winning their best of seven series being one loss constantly surprised could have joined them in the last four they threw away entirely league teams three want to. however it still scarred well that's a price to progress in that side. and meanwhile players in the n.h.l. have recently become a regular sight in european hockey teams but they'll no longer be plying their trade in front of kontinental hockey league fans this year according to president alexander medvedev spoke exclusively. with looks like we will not see such gracious. only one reason in the chilled group or the old saying usually businesslike approach the offer was also favorable and for those photos they were there was always a little request. for them purple birthplace while you were going

through the. stable for spring for spring for example well florida. before. you reply probably percent sure of the. possibility of to give money because maybe they could get this working for of europeans but gets a possibility to express their interest. for their own game susie's can potentially be a straight shooter. tennis now and women's world number one caroline wozniacki has reached the semifinals of the indian wells open after tori as a rank a retired at three love down in the first set while all the men's top seeds are also going strong with rafael nadal leading their charge into the quarterfinals this planet enjoyed his toughest match so far in california still waded through in straight sets against india to qualify on sunday of devilment seven five six for

the finals. and big serving crowd in the college waiting for him in the next round and also three seconds even larger further up the swiss master proved too strong for teenaged wildcard ryder research a local boy did course a tie break in the first but federer racked up the second six three that was packed with arafat. and thirty very bad luck of which claims he produced with every day is truly an open champion steamroller. in just over an hour of it's conceded just one game process as we shall i guess take the frog's. golf now where steven dodd of wales and spain's jose manuel lara share a one shot lead after the first round of the inaugural sicilian open richard green played an exquisite tee shot at a party thirteenth it led to six birdies in a round of sixty eight which left three shots of the place. where

a lot was rewarded for his bold approach with a birdie at the seventeenth the frenchman who walked off the eighteenth green with a bogey free sixty six just one chance to place. but it's better in jordan lara shared top spot on the leaderboard darkies reading for a first european to a victory in five years carded six birdies and an eagle in his round of sixty five while our was also in fine form on the greens thinking this long range part of the seventeenth one of five birdies on the back nine. cricket now in england snatched a dramatic eighteen man win over the west indies in their must win group b. match in chennai to get their world cup campaign alive andrew strauss not try starting routes fast hammering a six off down sunday. for johnson taught how to move races seventy three for one after eleven i was against a calf to chris that ricky did end of issue involving twenty seven while in morgan

with our fellow keeping right in james tredwell added thought he wanted a sudden quickest total of two hundred forty three with those left. and right gayle snatched the thirty six runs of two overs to the west indies two fifty for not just five overs but try to out trapped again and just dismissed all those sunny balls at one hundred. but very most seem to be out in thirty nine was eventually given a six instead track as a judge perhaps lead into the boundary. the rest is out soon afterwards as the windiest collapsed two hundred twenty two for six to two hundred twenty five all out their final paratime to the risky second round and has run out wide to celebrations innings in count. now much of g.p.s. high speed rivalries will start anew this weekends but before the season gets

underway it's been a friendly get together for the competitors in cats are the entire field of seventy riders were on hand at the last sale circuit outside so this track stages the racing grand prix on sunday yamaha man jorge lorenzo is the friendly overall champion but it's team reps all honda who are looking the strongest going into the council race two thousand and seven champion casey stoner and last year's runner up dani pedrosa dominating the off season tests so now had joined on the phone to can't see you fill the void with none other than seven time champion valentino rossi. finally boxing and heavyweight champion vitaly klitschko says he'll be facing the most difficult opponent of his career on saturday as he defends his w.b.c. title against cuba's lanie and solace in poland both boxers enter the ring on wednesday for lights training sessions in front of hundreds of spectators so this is from have an hour and a former olympic and world power to champion who remains under after seventeen

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