it's circles photo in the big building so close or chill. corinthian if steepness read this and this is really him in scheme we could switch it to look you can. now so it's in. japan titles to get power back to the fukushima nuclear plant to prevent further explosions. smoke seen rising from reactor number two she was in she's basically transfers the power to the cooling system and world watches as because she misspeak breasts in the end of a few dozen volunteers struggling to keep the plan from a complete their meltdown. asian markets seem gains after reacting positively to b.g. sevenths announcement that they will intervene in the currency market of japan more this summer this is something. and libya bracing for airstrikes from france and the u.k. as the u.n. security council backs and no fly zone to protect civilians.

eleven am in moscow i matras a good to have you with us here on r t the race is on to restore electricity to japan's stricken fukushima nuclear plant so that workers can get the reactor cooling systems back on line it's been a week now since the country was rocked by its worst ever earthquake triggering a tsunami and a disaster that's left thousands of people dead or missing or better 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 reactors but it seems like the only way they're now going to prevent what could be a real nuclear disaster they're now focusing on reactor number two because this morning they actually saw smoke rising from the reactor they don't know what the

cause was of that they don't think it was an explosion because that wasn't heard clearly the temperature inside is very hot or 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 to keep the temperature down to try to cool the reactors there off of the first thought that actually had explosions since the earthquake for example yesterday at reactor number three they doused in sixty four tons of water from any causes from above and water cannons from below and the early hours of this morning the tokyo fire department they sent thirty of their fire engines that throwing everything they got at is 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 are going to after cooperate with the international help cording to the japanese nuclear and industrial safety agency what they recorded this morning a kilometer away from the site was two hundred seventy nine point four might receive it's per hour down from last night's reading of two hundred ninety two point two is not a significant problem it is a drop so clearly poorly on water has helped in some degree but they clearly need to do more now since then the government spokesman at least the gun owner who's the chief cabinet secretary has come out and said that although there are very high. radiation readings in some places he says and it doesn't pose a direct negative ones how because in these places it's not coming into direct human contact however a number of countries actually don't believe this and what they're doing is actually wanting their citizens not to go p. fifty kilometers of a nuclear power plant whereas the japanese government has imposed an exclusion zone

of twenty kilometers telling residents within thirty to stay away yesterday when topic coast a little bit from tokyo of the east coast who was who she met with the guy who count down to see what residence. this is the town of o.-r. i-a around halfway between tokyo and fukushima i'm still one 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 shots up to no point five one procedure 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 and asks here the people are wearing their they're going to heal they're very afraid of the radiation but who can do very much planted all we can do is follow the media and trust them and is seen. the tsunami did actually come in this far inland but the

town escaped most of the damage however since the earthquake they've been without drinking water here and the residents have 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 we can see we can loop and we have electricity because we can't do anything without water. this is the start of japan's ravaged east coast norene line by that their bridges lie strewn all over the place here so walls collapsed over here houses of fallen down such as the force of the tsunami this is also the point of we're going to turn back because they can get counties reading the highest it has been all day one point zero four microsleep it's plain how come forth until my fear is that i won't be able to live here anymore and this is my home obviously for my health for 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 and if the wind blows this way and even worse if the rain comes in the radiation will shortz who arrived to inform us parties over ben are reporting for us from inside japan at the fukushima plant the seed of millions now rests in the hands of a few dozen they become known as the faceless fifteen teams of workers trying to stop the fukushima facility from reaching a devastating point of no return or he's a really good go has just been injured and brings us more from seoul. we remember of course the biggest disaster ever and that is danger novel nuclear incest or it took several hundred people and it took several years actually decade or more to completely eradicate the ass to reference that disaster at this point already a week we'd have brought 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 rare here it's well it's actually it's a guy about a week sort gets to tick down to the scene at the country's most critical nuclear accidents and to pretty much state the obvious and that is the situation is grave and there are separate authorities need to closely cooperate with the early. thirty's as well in order to resolve this crisis entire situation with rather miniscule amount of people. not enough information. being disclosed by the government or the power company or actually in charge of our roads when you put all of this together a question arises whether or not humanity has actually now stirred nuclear energy to its full capacity or whether it's all just wishful thinking and then kinds modern marvels which. a particle collider to cover the secrets of creation and trying to new technology. those advances can come to nothing when nature strikes

and atomic energy is awesome power becomes hard to contain these after the plants first explosion japan's leaders implore everyone to stay calm helicopters and water cannons deployed to cool the reactors yet the situation remains critical and it will cause i do not think it will require as much manpower there's been a lot of technological progress made over the last thirty years. to understand number of people who have to operate. area who be affected by radiation will be very launched and that's because some things can be done manually in one thousand nine hundred six the soviet union morgan eyes thousands of people to battle the nuclear disaster at chernobyl in japan now has the fifty in a must workers putting themselves up against radiation to keep the reactors from nuclear meltdown certainly is their lives or immediately at stake.

and clearly they have circled far east to any kind of long life by being there this was the this is clearly an exposure that jeopardizes their immediate health is the union essentially ordered its citizens to separate files their lives to radiation when battling the chernobyl the aftermath would you can is a democratic state so the workers are meaningless because she more are doing so willingly i mean question is will their efforts prove to be enough to keep this situation from taking a turn for worse will the amount of radiation being released now and the amount of aggression that a little girl released in the cardinal is so great that the whole or global growth that. the disaster model will only rocko when it was affected in all this really call of the whole global so the magnitude of the woman disaster cannot be predicted now but this and it is going to be one of the worst disasters in gold is to

acknowledge it has had nasty habit of turning against humans and when that happens the equipment doesn't yet exist to send machines in to put things right in the end it takes human risk and sacrifice to prevent a technological tragedy from becoming a large scale catastrophe in tokyo involves called. we're going to get more insight on how the weather a factor is affecting the nuclear crisis in japan we live to jerusalem where progress. day on our professor of synoptic meteorology and climatology joins us live good to have you with us so in the coming days and weeks what do you think could affect what effect do you think the weather could have on spreading any radiation in japan and beyond its borders. yes. under such a consensus a national emergency centers as well as the national myth original centers make

some assessment on the for us all such a cloud in order to know in advance where is such a cloud is heading to florida for example is a national and oceanic atmospheric administration in the u.s. is this not a model to predict the threat of a polluted cloud along evolving better educated situation all over the world any i teach it over the globe and of course since a mythological condition change we steinman space over the globe such forecast model has to be around and checked several times a day. recently. fewer well. three long range transports ok indicated that we are facing the north over japan and therefore are not. there's not

a threat for tokyo or osaka. and. i'm sorry the lanes are facing south to leave it is to say that contaminated don't want to reach a sucker or tokyo for these coming days and fortunately no wash wash out of this radioactive cloud already active rain is anticipated seen as a cloud is expected. as a prosecutor patience snow and rain will stop in the coming hours. as for the rest of the week or the rest of the coming days from monday westerly winds will prevail and for something like five to seven days and is a big relief because this wind will transport any emission of shore. and furthermore it is so far as

a weather forecast. he's predicting rain and unstable atmospheric conditions over the western part of the pacific ocean therefore we expect the. beside the discretion of the politan on their on their way they will be washed down or washed out by the rain therefore in about nine to ten days we expect that this. cloud or the clue of the cloud with very low concentration will probably reach alaska what do you think are the likely long term effects of this weather cycle as the radiation is dispersed into the atmosphere. well it depends again on what particular we are speaking the letter of the arctic particulate if it is if there are tiny particular smaller then let's say one million million of

a millionth of a metre which is one micron so they will continue to be transported for a long time and demand ring around the world doing some several turns around the whole globe. in this square seeing. if their. behavior isn't there then they will be it was heated now for the radioactive contents if they mainly let's say. they will last for a lot of time and the contamination that he would be quite difficult to do on the surrounding immediate region of course not over the ocean and if it is yaadein for example so the halftime i mean is a disappear very quickly in the atmosphere and therefore in something like nine to ten days a concentration will drop to something which is really not very very harmful and now right now we're at an energy crossroads we can either pump more carbon into the air with old style power stations or burning oil and coal and likewise there's also

nuclear and he with her of course is relatively greener but has these other dangers attached what do you think is best for the environment. oh of course. of course. mainly if we're speaking i mean. mathematically let's put it this way in that putin venturi. clear is that the cleanest. energy. production is by nuclear. does not they meet any any. greenhouse gases and i guess it really is a question of. energy. regular gene environment context is the more a question of perception. as compared to some as a pollutant you don't see and you don't really feel it i mean.

if it's not really a terrible shock it is. you feel a long time after the exposure all right live from jerusalem professor and your friends are synoptic meteorology and climatology thanks for your comments. 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 stands at six and a half thousand there are many more people missing more than ten thousand remain unaccounted for archy's correspondents are in the region you can follow them every step of the way i bet it entertaining pollution or updating our twitter stream and you can keep abreast of what they're discovering call there are other developments in japan at r.t. underscore dot. fear of radiation contamination is spreading well beyond japan's shores people in russia's far east are stocking up on preventive medicines but without seeking the proper medical advice first as arkansas governor got to

over a ports this 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 the way from these kind of going sort. it's hard not to be gripped by panic when the world's high and mighty are sounding the alarm the closer you are to because shima the bigger your chances of picking up the panic buyers which is grabbing 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 such punishment 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

a long list with the president just if anything really serious happens there things like consuming large amounts of oil going all red wine that's what people often say they're going to do such things won't help the reverse they may seriously damage their health because i am going blocks 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 followers plans. everyone wants to be on top of official reports preparing for the unknown many go even further buying personal radiation meters geiger counters price is no object. and the last three days we sold out there are multiple e-stop of going up counters we now have to turn to our suppliers for an additional shipment of taking reasonable precautions there's no but think at all unless panic 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 little stocks a corner 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 cloud that may never arrive exit integration of our t.v. of us still. turning to other news we're covering on our t.v. friends in the u.k. have declared that a military operation against libyan leader moammar gadhafi regime will start within hours the warning comes after the u.n. security council's back to

a no fly zone over libya in an effort to protect civilians from airstrikes colonel moammar gadhafi is threatening to retaliate in the mediterranean and the capital tripoli could offer supporters were defiant in showing their anger over the u.n. decision claiming the outside world is misinterpreting what's going on in the country even so there was a jubilee tshombe in aruba in the rebel controlled areas like tobruk with fireworks and guns shot into the air while the crowd swarmed into the streets of benghazi the country's leader is calling on the rebels to surrender warning there will be no mercy for those who don't has his forces close in or he's going to port my house more from new york for the international community has taken its most decisive action yet libya. vote happened a lot quicker than most of us journalists actually even hated it took place and in under an hour and ten of the security council members voted to support this resolution and five of the countries abstained it's the bric countries brazil russia india china and germany now this resolution the authorization of

a no fly zone over libya and it also authorizes countries tack unilaterally so what can happen remains to be seen because that gives countries 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 within 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 see cheik diplomatic approaches slower steps because in fact some experts believe that. any military intervention. to the violence and conflict that's already ongoing in libya can exacerbate the problem of russian ambassador to the united nations vitaly churkin it did make some comments following the security council vote let's take

a listen to what he said. the images of innocence a whole range of questions raised by the russian federation and to the security council members. questions which were both concrete and it isn't questions regarding how the no fly zone would be enforced would the reason been gauging would be limited to the use of force provisions were introduced into the text potentially you could do to lower scale military intervention responsibility for the inevitable humanitarian consequences and 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 or even civilian population of libya could do something called imploding peace and security throughout the whole region of northern africa and the middle east can suffer there's a need to avoid such destabilizing developments. and it's also been reported by the many of us media outlets that the u.s. pentagon has also been preparing britain has one of the countries that code drafted

this resolution and has been making statements that it is prepared already to go into the areas area airspace of libya and maybe take other means so we can anticipate that those western countries will be among the ones to act first what will come out of it is on clear but this is a quite a development coming out of the united nations here in new york. as we've heard the major concern is that u.n. ruling potentially allows for military intervention asia times correspondent pepe escobar says that's something the west has been preparing for to turn the tide against gadhafi with in libya. the problem now is how to implement especially point floor resolution that you want resolution one nine seventy three point four talks about to take all kinds of measures to protect civilians this is not all the a no fly zone this implies that we. figure as us need

to arab league military operation we don't know how this is going to play out in the field leaving implies that they will be able to attack kathy thanks wolf towards baghdad see for instance a look at the nose what this will it's not. just the resolution for instance allows for pompeii of military installations in tripoli itself in that keys but there could be an aerial strike i guess the bible as he said quarters in tripoli as well . commentary from asia times correspondent pepe escobar remember you can always keep on. facebook account you can join us there and find all the latest news it's your chance to feedback on what you're watching as events unfold around the world we've got links to our video coverage of libya and on the other big stories of all by searching for our teams on facebook. we'll get more on the global ramifications

of japan's earthquake and tsunami in cross talk in a few minutes but first it's the business update with best. 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 and control japan's volatile currency well it's the first time in a decade that the g seven had jointly intervened in the money markets along wednesday the yen to hit its highest level against the dollar says the second world war strengthening to seventy six and a quarter in the u.s. trading but it fell back in later sessions it did currently trading get eighty two dollars while a say

a coordinated effort by the world's biggest economies would have a bigger impact than the japanese central bank acting alone meanwhile the bank of japan injected another extra thirty seven billion dollars into the markets on friday that's to try to shore up confidence and ensure a liquidity central bank has already injected nearly seven hundred billion dollars into the country's financial sector. let's have a look at how the asian markets are performing reaction to the g seven intervention to curb the yen so japanese shares dropped nearly three percent while the young tumbled a close up two point seven percent well 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 kongs a high saying it's like this at work. well here in russia the stock markets are in the black in the early morning session the r.t.s. is more than a percent off this hour and energy stocks are leading the upward trend as commodity

prices continue to grow. let's have a look at some of the individual share banking. shares are among the main winners this hour it's almost one percent higher and rest jeff is also rising a point eight percent are a group oil is above half a percent on the my sex. global markets how bounce back after a massive sell off at the beginning of the week but those gains could retreat if the situation in japan gets worse. see outlines the key drivers for the market 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 at the same time any news that comes out from in terms of radiation leaks and also in terms of any supply disruptions of. the middle east all of these would have an impact these are the mean things to watch out on friday well more

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