battle to get the power back to the fukushima nuclear plant to prevent further explosions. smoke seen rising from reactor number two was injured these basically trying to restore power to the cooling system and it since world watches because she was faced. with a few dozen volunteers struggling to keep the plans from a complete nuclear meltdown. in business markets or see slide games after g.g. seven finance ministers said they would intervene in japan's currency will more than that in about twenty minutes time. at another news libya braces for airstrikes from friends in the u.k. as the u.n.

security council backs and no fly zone to protect civilians. in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on r t our top story the race is on to restore electricity to japan's stricken fukushima nuclear plant so that workers can then get the reactor cooling systems back on line it's been a week now since the country was a rocked by its worst ever earthquake triggering a tsunami and it is asking about look that's not thousands of people dead or missing or bet it has more from japan. right now they're still trying to reconnect power to the site so they can get those cooling systems up and running and bring the temperature down inside the reactor that seems like the only way they're now going to prevent what could be a real nuclear disaster and mouth hoaxing reactor number two because this morning

they actually saw smoke rising from the reactor they don't know what the cause was of that i don't think it was an explosion because that wasn't heard clearly the temperature inside is very hot sauce they've already managed to do was to lay a power cable from the main grid a kilometer long cable to try and restore power but they haven't managed to connect that up yet the radiation is very high still and also the outer casing of the reactor the containment vessel was badly damaged in the explosion that happened earlier this week now in the meantime they are trying everything they can to try and keep the temperature down trying to cool the reactors there off of the first four actually had explosions since the earthquake for example yesterday at reactor number three they doused in sixty four tons of water from any cause is front of and water cannons from below in the early hours of this morning at tokyo fire department they sent thirty of their fire engines that are throwing everything they've got at this with the head of the u.n. nuclear watchdog the international atomic energy agency who's in tokyo right now

meeting with the japanese prime minister he came out and said that to prevent this turning into a full scale nuclear disaster they're going to have to cooperate with international help according to the japanese nuclear and industrial safety agency what they recorded this morning a kilometer away from the silence two hundred seventy nine one call might receive its per hour down from last night's reading of two hundred ninety two point two it's not a significant drop but it is a drop so clearly they who are on water has helped in some degree but they clearly need to do more now since then the government spokesman. who is the chief cabinet secretary has come out and said. although there are very high radiation readings in some places he says and it doesn't pose a direct. negative to one's health because in these places it's not coming into direct human contact however a number of international or

a number of countries actually internet and government the governments don't believe this and what they are doing is actually wanting their citizens not to go he comes as of and you can count on whereas the japanese government has imposed an exclusion zone of twenty camps and telling residents within thirty to stay away yesterday i went out because the little bit from to you other than all of these close to was fukushima and we go i counted to see what residents the. this is the town of o.-r. i-a around halfway between tokyo and fukushima i'm still a hundred fifty kilometers south of the nuclear power plant but already the radiation levels here over double that of those in tokyo the geiger counter i've got just started beeping wildly and shot up to no point five microsleep it's per hour it's not harmful to one's health especially just yet but it is certainly a concern so much so that the army has started to hand out these face masks here that people are wearing to stop themselves breathing in the radiation that they're

going to hear they're very afraid of the radiation but who can do know much about it all we can do is follow the media and trust the government is saying. the tsunami did actually come in this far inland but the town escaped both of the damage however since the earthquake they've been without drinking water here in the residence up to come and fill up water they need from points like this in the town that have been set up by the army further up the coast it's a similar story we've been travelling along this road for the last ten fifteen kilometers looking for a place to have lunch but none of the restaurants are open. it will take another week until we can open with electricity because we can't do anything without water . this is the start of japan's ravaged east coast and arena life for their breed just lie strewn all over the place here so walls collapsed over here thousands of fallen down such as the force of the tsunami this is also what are we going to turn back because they don't like the county's reading the highest it has done all day

one point zero for mike to see what's playing out. my fear is that i won't be able to live here anymore and this is my home obviously i fear for my health with the radiation but it's not just about that i'm afraid i will be able to come back here we're only around a hundred and twenty kilometers south of fukushima power plant now if the wind blows this way and even worse if the rain comes and the radiation to arrive to you in force. sorties i've been a pair of warning from inside japan where the fukushima plant the fate of millions now rests in the hands of a few dozen he became known as the faceless fifteen teams of workers trying to stop the fukushima facility from reaching a devastating point of no return but he's really blew show has just been in japan and brings us the latest. well it's actually to cry about it we get to japan to the scene of the country's most horrific and nuclear accidents and to pretty much state the obvious and that is that the situation is grave and japanese authorities need

to closely cooperate with. authorities as well in order to resolve this crisis and now up until now the i.a.e.a. has been making of course similarly. alarmed statements saying it is asking for and when the japanese authorities say that everything was more or less under control but at least now we see that he's on scene and making statements not just out of the blue from across the ocean from monster out wherever it could have been but it is actually on the scene in his home country after all and talking proposals are pins and thirty's and possibly what they were being able now to actually puts their heads together. and possibly prevent this from turning into a large scale larger than it already is to remember of course the biggest nuclear disaster ever and that is to ensure normal nuclear disaster it took several hundred

people and it took several years actually a decade if not more to completely ready to marathon that disaster at this point it's already weak we've have got hundred eighty people working on the scene working in shifts but they are the only people there and nobody else is present and everything that's happening is actually in their hands and in the entire situation rather miniscule amount of people. not enough information. being disclosed by the government or power company who are actually in charge of. when you put all of this together question arises whether or not humanity has actually mastered nuclear energy to its full capacity or whether it's all just wishful thinking as we can. judge from a circle. and then kinds of modern marvels reaching the moon a particle collider to uncover the secrets of creation and trying to master nuclear technology but those advances can come to nothing when nature strikes and atomic

energy is awesome power becomes hard to contain days after the plants first explosion japan's leaders implore everyone to stay calm helicopters and water cannons deployed to call the reactors yet the situation remains critical of course i do not think it will require as much manpower it has been a lot of technological progress made over the last thirty years it's easy to understand the number of people who would have to operate in the affected area and who would be affected by radiation will be very large just because some things can only be done manually in one thousand nine hundred six the soviet union model is thousands of people to battle the nuclear disaster at chernobyl depend i has the faceless fifty and i know most workers putting themselves up against radiation to keep their reactors from nuclear meltdown certainly their lives or immediately at

stake. and clearly they have sacrificed any kind of long life by being there this was because this is clearly an exposure that jeopardizes their immediate health this is a union essentially ordered its citizens to sacrifice their lives to radiation when battling the chernobyl the aftermath but japan is a democratic state so the workers are meaningless because she married doing so willingly i mean questionnaires or their efforts proved to be enough to keep this situation from taking a turn for worse the amount of radiation being released now and the amount of radiation will be released on the cobbles so great. global the affected. you know it does us that mobile the only rumpole we did it was the fact it's you know those who call it the whole globe so all the little disaster.

but definitely it's going to be one of the worst nuclear disasters in the world history has had nasty habit of turning against humans and when that happens the equipment doesn't yet exist just in machines in keeping things right in the end it takes human risk and sacrifice to prevent a technological tragedy from becoming a large scale catastrophe in tokyo. japanese authorities are giving a grim estimate of the number of people who have died there expecting it to triple from the current number that currently stands at almost fifty seven hundred or many more missing over twelve thousand people remain unaccounted for parties correspondents are in the region you can follow them step by step. entering evolution or updating our twitter screen you can keep abreast of what they're discovering follow their updates and other developments from japan. underscore. the fear of radiation contamination is spreading well beyond your pan's borders

people in russia's neighboring far east are stocking up on preventive medicines but often without seeking the proper medical advice is a good writer and a grouch over a ports could prove far more damaging to both their health and the local economy. we see the nuclear catastrophe in japan but we are closing nuclear plants away from these kind of sort of. 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 shima the bigger your chances of picking up the panic virus which is spreading more so if you're not a physicist or a doctor people in russia's far is divided from japan by a strip of water four hundred miles across was the quickest to react. but my friend called me and said that she's leaving the city i'm not in session panic yet but i'm already taking iodine just in case. but radiation levels remain

completely normal and doctors are forced into sounding a different kind of alarm is that a breeze it is that if anything really serious happens there things like consuming large amounts of oil and all red wine that's what people often say they're going to do such things won't help quite the reverse they may seriously damage their health because i am going to function and it may well happen and probably will as well everything in japan goes back to normal many of our people will have problems with their thawing plans. everyone wants to be on top of official reports preparing for the unknown and many go even further by in personal radiation meters geiger counters price is no object. in the last three days we sold out on a monthly stock of geiger counters we now have to turn to our suppliers for an additional shipment of taking reasonable precautions there's no better think at all

unless 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 spar 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 let us help support me russia's largest city on the pacific ocean local restaurants offering fresh seafood from the waters off japan are already losing clients customers are afraid of radioactive fish even histeria continues wholesale fish markets could be next to suffer meaning no silver lining to a radioactive clouds that may never. have r t. russia standing by to send help in japan including protection measures for people against

radiation and the next hour of the emergencies minister tells us about the challenges facing the japanese. the japanese government's main priority right now is the back to asian of affected areas this will be a challenging task as i have already said we should do all is going to help the most pressing issue is that of nuclear safety tales such as the evacuation of the population how to feed them where to house them the second problem given the extremely high casualty numbers is the danger of an epidemic that's the second most pressing issue from what we can see on the ground it's being worked on isn't dealt with yet third major problem is that of drinking water and considering that five hundred thousand people have been left homeless it's extremely urgent. widespread media coverage of the situation in japan is being watched by millions around the world high tech images from the country have been taking global

audiences to the horror of the disaster zone and the catastrophic events as they unfolded but authorities got into reports when the cameras are watching it can be a different story. images that true the world tragedy live twenty four seventh's leading news outlets deployed their best journalists to cover the disaster in japan and the hearts of billions of viewers worldwide have gone out to those japanese who fell victim to the earthquake and deadly tsunami what makes great television is images that make the viewer sympathize and feel the tragedy of the people caught up in a natural disaster but when there is a lack of such images streaming live from our screens the sorrow of millions can go almost unnoticed let's look back at the both earthquake in pakistan it killed more than seventy five thousand people in two thousand and five while the world's media

did notice the tragedy the coverage was nothing as intense as we're seeing now in japan some in the business say japan being a high tech country means coverage is assured where is less developed nations like pakistan get much less media attention the world probably got less of the story and some of those other countries because they don't have they didn't have the technology didn't have the cameras that were right there like they were in japan from different countries dozens of different angles you saw the waves coming in which is a kind of footage in our business unfortunately that is the dream to be able to get that kind of footage and you don't get that in some of the other third world countries you see the aftermath the shots of the aftermath of a psych loan that hit mine mars three years ago or horrifying more than one hundred thirty eight thousand people were killed the government of mine more limited access

to foreign journalists and there were no live pictures from the disaster zone and as it happens in the news business very quickly the story died down if there is a disaster in the middle of africa and sick. africa it's always a bit you always have the same kind of images that you have subject that where he is a twenty four seven operations against why this tsunami in japan is so huge in terms of course worldwide coverage because there are cameras absolutely everywhere it depends if this was in china i would say western china for instance you have probably one pence because the images are not there the earthquake in this is one province in china killed around sixty eight thousand people and again the coverage was limited and so therefore was where all the interest in the disaster their human tragedy whether in japan or china or chile deserves sympathy but more often than not the attention span of world news channels depends on which tragedy makes

that in television i'm going to check on reporting from washington our team. into other news we're covering here on r t the u.n. security council has backed a no fly zone on libya in an effort to protect civilians from airstrikes by colonel moammar gadhafi forces but it was past ten to zero with russia brazil china germany and india all abstaining in the capital tripoli gadhafi supporters were defiant in showing their anger over the u.n. decision they made the outside world is misinterpreting what's going on there even so there was jubilation in rebel controlled areas like who broke with fireworks and guns fired in the air while swarms. crowds swarmed the streets in benghazi but troops loyal to colonel gadhafi are said to be preparing to retake this city within hours the country's leaders calling on the rebels to surrender warning there will be no mercy for those who don't geysers forces close in or he's worried important i has more from new york where the international community has taken its most decisive action reaction. happened

a lot quicker than most of us journalists actually even anticipated it took place in an under an hour and ten of the security council members. voted to support this resolution and five of the countries of state it's the bric countries brazil russia india china and ensure many now this resolution the authorization of a no fly zone over libya also authorizes the countries hack unilaterally so what kind of top it remains to be seen because that gives contraries a lot of room in the ways in which they decide to act russia and china well they are the veto wielding members that abstained i was in the security council and i think the reason that they were hesitant to begin with what we've heard russia china and other countries say is that they didn't want to take any means that would indicate military intervention in libya they want to take more of

a diplomatic approach slower steps because in fact sports believe that any military intervention adding to the violence and conflict that's already ongoing in libya can exacerbate the problem of russian ambassador to the united nations vitale churkin didn't make some comments following this occurred a council vote let's take a listen to what he's up. in the desert in essence a whole range of questions raised by the russian federation and to the security council members. questions which were both concrete and legitimate questions regarding how the no fly zone would be enforced would need to be engagement would be limited to the use of force and visions were introduced into the text potentially. military intervention responsibility for the inevitable humanitarian consequences of the excessive use of outside force in libya fair and square on the shoulders of those who might undertake such actions if this happens the number of the civilian population of libya to something called peace and security throughout

the whole region of north africa and the middle east and so for there's a need to avoid such destabilizing developments. it's also been. reported by the many. u.s. media outlets that the u.s. pentagon has also been preparing britain has one of the countries that could drafted this resolution and has been making statements that it is prepared already to go into the areas airspace of libya and maybe take other means so we can anticipate that those western countries will be among the ones to first what will come out of it is unclear this is a quite a development coming out of the united nations here in new york. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe shells have been fired during a series of street battles in the ivory coast killing at least thirty people they were launched from a military police base in a district in the capital held by fighters opposed to president. he's clinging to

power despite global calls for him to go after he lost a deeply disputed election four months ago the u.n. says three hundred seventy thousand people have fled the escalating clashes. the former haitian leader john bertrand aristide is heading back to his home country ending his seven years in exile this comes ahead of sunday's runoff presidential election the united states says i received the tour includes stabilize haiti's fragile situation aristide remains a dominant force in the nation's politics despite his turbulent terms in office the last of which saw him driven out in a rebellion. and european airplane maker air bus is facing manslaughter charges over the air france crash in two thousand and nine two hundred twenty eight aboard were killed when their airbus a three thirty plugs into the atlantic ocean on route from paris to rio it's still not known exactly why the plane came down but a new multimillion dollar search will start next week to find the flight data

recorders. remember you can always find all the latest news on facebook just a click away on the find your chance to feedback on what you're watching as the events unfold around the world if you have links to our video coverage of japan and libya and today's other big stories you can find us by searching for. on facebook. travels around russia still ahead for you this hour we take you to discover the southern city of her own age but before that our business update with pets are still and if humans. welcome to the business update the finance ministers from the g.

seven group of the world's richest nations have agreed to step into currency markets to try to control japan's volatile currency well it's the first time in a decade that the g seven have jointly intervened in the money markets on wednesday the yen hits a level against a dollar since the second world war the highest level strengthening to seventy six and a quarter in the u.s. trading it fell back and later sessions it's currently trading at around eighty two dollars analysts say a coordinated effort by the world's biggest economies would have a bigger impact than the japanese suffered by acting alone meanwhile the bank of japan injected another extra thirty seven billion dollars into the markets on friday they tried shore up confidence and ensure a liquidity japan central bank has already injected a total of six hundred eighty eight billion dollars into the country's financial sector. let's see how the asian markets are performing a reaction from the g. seven says intervention to curb the yen saw drop a new shares chart nearly three percent while the you have tumbled investors are

also showing optimism that further radiation leakage could be contained at the fukushima nuclear plant stock markets elsewhere in asia also rose of the g seven bid to stabilize global markets. it's all about perception right now. and here in russia the r.t.s. on the rise so it's opening just an hour both verses of the thursday session on a positive note my stocks closed almost two percent as investors kept a close watch of a day so japan's post quake radiation crisis higher oil prices pose for the market . global markets a bounce back after a massive selloff at the beginning of the week but those games could retreat if the situation in japan gets worse moderate draw from h.s.b.c. outlines the key drivers for the markets on friday. of course there will be people looking at what's happening in terms of inflation there not too many releases coming out too but you do have the german p.p.i. for example which could give you some more indication on what the e.c.b. could do and i guess same time any news that comes out from japan in terms of you

know the radiation leaks and also in terms of any supply disruptions of the oil from the middle east all of these would have an impact of these other mean things to watch out on friday. russia is making it easier for investors to set up business in the country special economic zones by streamlining the process of their twenty four such as zones across the country which are intended to develop manufacturing the high tech sector tourism and logistics companies already enjoy a special tax regime and be out of these special economic zones says the year project is already bringing in a new foreign money. ortrud of the stinson is currently the overall volume of investment companies have committed to invest in unison national economic zones and seeks ten billion dollars leasing conversation investments in the industrial innovation to restore logistics soon we expect a substantial amount of the sum to be invested for example in april japan his company your hummer is opening the china plant the total investment of around four

hundred million dollars. and russia's state owned companies welcome to haul the financial reports in line with international standards from twenty thirteen let's hope it will help the best get a clearer picture of the firm state of affairs the central bank's deputy chairman explains how this will impact the barking sector which has been revealed by substantial number of russian banks already issued internationally accepted financial statements i think that in order to fully transfer to international financial reporting standards a lot needs to be done for both banks and the regulator the procedures would be more difficult for medium and small banks however the regulator will also have to do a lot in order to efficiently monitor the market as at the moment we are only using russian accounting standards. that's all for the business up that you can help us get more of our to dot com slash because that's.

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