japan battles to get power back to the fukushima nuclear plant to prevent further explosions. smoke seen rising from reactor number two is in jesus' day street trying to restore power to the cooling system. also this hour profile moammar gadhafi threatens retaliation if france and the u.k. grow through with their planned intervention following the u.n. security council's backing of a no fly zone. noon

in moscow i imagine as are going you had today's top stories and all the day's news here on r t the race is on to restore electricity to japan street in fukushima nuclear plant so workers can then get the reactor cooling systems back on line it's been a week 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 bad 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 span 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 about 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 and keep the temperature down trying to cool the reactors there off of the first floor actually had explosions since the earthquake for example yesterday at reactor number three they doused in sixty four tons of water from a cops from above and water cannons from below and the early hours of this morning the tokyo fire department they sent thirty eight fire engines and 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 international help according 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 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 who are you on or so on has helped in some degree but they clearly need to do more now since then the government spokesman and it's 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. ones hell 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 are doing is actually wanting their citizens not to go we want is of and you can count on the japanese government has imposed an exclusion zone and twenty kilometers telling residents within thirty to stay away and yesterday i went up it coast a little bit from the east coast who was fukushima with a geiger counter to see what residents the. this is a 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 beating wildly and shots up to no point five might receive 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 decided to hand out these faced masks here but people are wearing these and 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 them and is saying. 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 in the residents have to come and fill up the 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 traveling along this road for the last ten fifteen kilometers looking for a place to have lunch but none of the restaurants are open. to 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 like part of their bridges lie strewn all over the place here so walls collapsed over here hell's is a fallen down so. it was the force of the tsunami this is also the point are we going to turn back because they call you counties reading the highest it has done all day one point zero four and they might perceive it's played out for my fear is that i won't be able to live here anymore and this is my home obviously ikea 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 now if the wind blows this way and even worse if the rain comes in the radiation i was sure to arrive to inforce parties are better reporting for us from inside japan at the

fukushima nuclear plant the fate of millions now rests in the hands of just a few dozen they become known as the faceless fifty eight teams of workers trying to stop the fukushima facility from reaching a devastating point of no return or he's really going to show explains how manpower is all that stands between success and disaster. 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 fukushima plants first explosion japan's leaders implore everyone to stay carm helicopters and water cannons deployed to call the reactors yet the situation remains critical and it will cause i do not think it will require as much manpower it has been

a lot of technological progress made over the last thirty years still it is important to understand the number of people who will have to operate in the affected area and who would be affected by radiation will be very launched that's because some things can only be done manually in one nine hundred eighty six the soviet union mobilized thousands of people to battle the nuclear disaster and depend i has the face of fifty in on the most workers putting themselves up against radiation to keep the 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 the this is clearly an exposure that jeopardizes their immediate health this is union essentially ordered its citizens to sacrifice their lives to radiation and battling the chernobyl the aftermath but it can is

a democratic state so the workers are raising it for she more are doing so willingly the main question is will their efforts prove to be enough to keep this situation from taking a turn for worse as the amount of radiation being released now there margaret a little girl east of the kabul so grades. or global the threat it. dissolves the chernobyl the or no one told you that was a thought it's you know this release and cover the whole globe so the magnitude of the moon disaster cannot be predicted but definitely is going to be one of the worst nuclear disasters in the all history of an orgy it has or had nasty habit of turning against humans and when that happens the equipment doesn't yet exist to send machines in keeping things right in the end it takes human risk and sacrifice to prevent a technological tragedy from becoming a large scale it has to be in tokyo in

a close call. filmmaker tony barrow who spent years documenting japan's as the country has a history of covering up nuclear accidents and he says that those who serve as a wake up call to look for alternative sources of energy. heard reports that the prime minister elise ministers have been rather annoyed at not getting enough information coming back from the the site of the catastrophe so i don't think the rest of us can feel too confident about the economy information we're getting think one of the things that's going to happen in japan i could be wrong about this is that people with definitely rethink their dependence on that which is a see one thing that worries some people across plans decision to enjoy the group tony obss eichel they have a fast breeder reactor on the north west coast of japan opposite to with a push from cushing i hasten to play school launch you where they have just

restarted their files from breeder reactor which was in all schools for fifteen years because of the leak as it happens but. there was a lot of fuss about that because that was a bit of a coverup as to exactly what happened manjoo why who was responsible that even a did seem to close a good television to cut outs of some of the. evidence as to what that happened to the question is now does japan really require some much kentucky of fuel and if so what is it going to do with it because it can't possibly use it all or can turn it can be used for its modified it can be used for nuclear weapons and that's the sort of thing that japan's neighbors are extremely worried about i hope i don't sound like a scaremonger order to have to provide to you know that you clear power it's not so economic as everybody likes to maintain nor is it as clean as we can see it when it was wrong it was wrong and people way as human russian honest people in the united

states know it's not perfect it never can be and when it goes back it goes really so i wouldn't want to rely too much of it. japanese authorities are giving a grim estimate of the number of people who've died they're expecting it to triple from the current number that currently stands at around six and a half thousand many more people are missing more than ten thousand unaccounted for correspondents are in the region you can call them step by step i ever been in there are going to lose go our updating our twitter stream you can keep on top of what they're covering at all there are needs and other developments in japan and wore out our t. underscored the. fear of radiation contamination is spreading well beyond japan's shores people in russia's far east are a stocking up on preventive medicines but often without seeking proper medical advice those are he's a graduate who reports this could prove far more damaging to both their health and the local economy. we see the nuclear catastrophe in japan and we are

closing nuclear plants the 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 peaking out the panic virus which is spreading more so they are not a physicist or a doctor people in russia's far is divided from japan by a strip of water four hundred miles across where the quickest to react. but my friend called me and said she's leaving the city and 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 just like the president is that 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 quite the reverse they may seriously damage their health because i am going function and it may well happen and probably will a while 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 many go even further buying personal radiation meters geiger counters price is no object. in the last three days we sold out our monthly stock of garden counters we now have to turn to our suppliers for an additional shipment of taking reasonable precautions there's no bad bank 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 turn billions today in russia spar is the transport companies and pharmacies are cashing

in on the panic but at stake is the region's largest business fishing. it accounts for eighty percent of lit us talks 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 clouds that may never arrive exit integrator r.t.e. of our stock. japan's economy was already fragile before the disaster struck and now it's being hit again with the yen surging to record levels of this week or he's business leaders across the developments with more. hello to us or so it's the last trading day before the weekend what's the situation with japan's currency and what are the ramifications but we do have

a bit of good news about front because as you had rightly mentioned since the crisis broke in japan the yen has soared to a record level of seventy six yen a two with dollar but because the g seven finance ministers did come together and said that they would intervene in japan's a currency market this is the first time the done this since the fall of two thousand so this obviously their move the coordinated move does indicate the kind of danger they see rippling for the crisis into the stock markets into the currency markets so right now the yen is truly have eighty one dollar yen that is two dollars and this is very very important because japan cannot afford to have a strong yen anymore because this is going to hurt their exports export driven economy think of to you what i think of sony this is definitely going to hurt they're going to cut into the profits of the japanese companies overseas and we have to recall that the reason why begin with strength is because of the crisis is because of speculation that foreign assets of japanese companies would be repatriated to japan to help with reconstruction and insurance insurance demands

these obviously still exist the insurance demands as well as the reconstruction so this might be a solution that in the short term medium term definitely good news for today for the markets across asia trading in the black but we have yet to see whether this was care this will carry on long term solution that he seven countries have not said exactly how they're going to help where the amount they're going to help but what comes to mind is the buying of more dollars a year off in the selling of the and this would definitely help we could at the end i mean again japan cannot afford to have a strong yen at this point in time there are a lot of the business best thank you. turning now to other news we're covering our friends in the u.k. have declared military operation against libyan leader moammar gadhafi his regime will start within hours warning comes after the u.n. security council backed in no fly zone over libya. in the capital tripoli with more for you so how well paula what's happening on the ground now and what do you think

we're likely to see these events unfold. well in theory this no fly zone could go into action today friday we are hearing from the french government that it will act swiftly the british cabinet is meeting and from both these governments we're hearing that they ready to take action within our was but there are still many unknowns questions like you asked when exactly will this no fly zone begin who will be involved who will have the chain of command and what will be the involvement of other countries both europe and the united states have made it quite clear that they do not want this to be a so european american response to a muslim country they needs to be military assistance given from the arab world now we're just hearing reports that the libyan air space has been closed i can confirm these reports we will see hearing reports of clashes in the country's third largest city of misrata and we've been told it dozens of people have been injured several of them have already been killed so the question of the whole not no fly zone the u.n. chief thank you mean to say that he needs to be immediate action realistically speaking

it seems as if this no fly zone could only be implemented possibly tomorrow possibly sunday even as far from now as monday now you need a moment that he has some though that if the international community intervenes he says to him that he will retaliate immediately having said that though the mood on the ground particularly in the city of benghazi the last stronghold remains defiant what if that resolution came through people erupted in cheers there were five words throughout the night into the early hours of this morning people were firing a k forty seven in celebration essentially the rebel fighters here feel relieved they're still recognized and they are incredibly keys that into. national community has come to back them we did hear from the gadhafi regime hours before that resolution was passed at that stage they pretended that they were planning a massive attack on benghazi since then and since the word of the passing of this resolution filtered through we hearing what seems to be a change of tactics possibly in response to the resolution the latest word now is

that they will not attack in ghazi the brother that the forces will encircled the city and according to state how is some of the son of gadhafi soldiers will not into being gods even while there will be only police and anti terrorist groups that were coming out from the gadhafi regime that they don't want to attack the city but they simply want to bring us back into big controversy. right now there's been fears that imposing a no fly zone could end in a military intervention and how real is that situation. but that is definitely the concern we hearing here on the ground people are asking the question what exactly does a no fly zone mean if you look at the resolution it talks about all necessary measures to be taken to protect civilians so many are asking what off or necessary in measures you need to remember that five countries did abstaining from eating russia we also now hearing from turkey they are against the european countries not to vote in favor also took same of course as germany the russian ambassador to the united

nations had this to say in terms of what are the concerns by many in the international community. with government is that in essence a whole range of questions raised by the russian federation and other security council members good questions which were both concrete and legitimate questions regarding how the no fly zone would be enforced with the rules of engagement would be limited to the use of force provisions were introduced into the text potentially opening the door to large scale 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 then nobody the civilian population of libya. holding peace and security throughout the whole region of north africa and the middle east will suffer there's a need to avoid such destabilizing developments. now a no fly zone is the lowest common denominator but this u.n.

resolution also talks about protecting civilians so i gave people very concerned if a no fly zone is not enough what exactly will be the states and what exactly will be demands that the international community will go to to protect civilians concerns that this will lead to foreign intervention to foot soldiers on libyan soil again we are hearing from the gadhafi regime to quote if we will not allow anyone to insert fear with our if it is all right argues paula you're on top of the story for us in tripoli. now as we have heard the major concern is that the u.n. ruling potentially allows for military intervention a few times correspondent pepe escobar says that's something the west has been preparing for to turn the tide against gadhafi from with in libya. the problem now is how to implement especially point four of the resolution of the un resolution one meaning 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. the whole thing is configured as us need to arab league military operation and we don't know how this is going to play out in the field but it implies that they will be able to attack that he takes moving towards being gaddafi for instance nobody knows what this will stop. because the resolution for instance allows for bomb of military installations in tripoli itself and that in that case. there could be an area strike i guess that. is headquarters in tripoli as well. commentary from asia times correspondent pay escobar for another some other stories making headlines across the globe shells have been fired during a series of street battles in 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 the rotten dog bo he's clean to power despite global calls for him to step down after he lost

a deeply disputed election four months ago the u.n. says three hundred seventy thousand people have fled the escalating clashes. more than two hundred rioters are said buildings on fire while trying to escape a crowded immigration detention center on australia's christmas island this follows a week of protests over delays and processing asylum applications australia is struggling to cope with increasing numbers about wiccans from afghanistan iraq and sri lanka one hundred strong police one fired non-lethal rounds and used tear gas to regain control of the center which is located a thousand kilometers east of the australian mainland. european airplane maker era buses facing manslaughter charges over the air france crash in two thousand and nine hundred twenty eight people aboard died when the airbus a three thirty plunged into the atlantic during an intense thunderstorm while on route from paris to rio de janeiro it's not known exactly what brought the plane down but

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trading but it could later sessions it's currently trading at around eighty two per dollar analysts say a coordinated effort by the world's biggest economies would have a bigger impact on the japanese suffered bad acting alone meanwhile the bank of japan injected another thirty seven billion dollars into the markets on friday that's to try and shore up confidence and ensure a liquidity than several bank has already injected nearly seven hundred billion dollars into the country's financial sector. let's have a look at how the markets are performing reaction to the g. seven so intervention to curb the japanese shares dropped nearly three percent while the currency itself tumbled investors were also showing some optimism that further radiation leakage could become to happen because human nuclear plants stock markets elsewhere in asia are also rose of the g seven to stabilize global markets calls had said closed slightly out friday. and in europe the markets are also on the rise with investors appreciating improvements in the world's stock and

commodities markets on the back of the g. seven meeting and slightly called the news coming from japan germany's dax is up about one percent this hour. and here in russia the stock markets are in the block of the early morning session your ts is up about one percent this hour energy stocks are leading the upward trend as commodity prices continue to grow. let's have a look at some of the individual share moves right now bax are among the main winners this hour with some very bad almost one percent higher and. the after sales are rising as around a quarter percent drop into a local is gaining over a percent on the biceps. russia's state owned companies will compile their financial reports in line with international standards from twenty thirteen well it so that it will help investors get a clearer picture of the firms for state of affairs the sufferer by step to be chairman explains how this will impact the banking sector which includes a 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 process 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. and russia is making it easier for investors to set up business in the countries especially economic zones about streamlining that process well there are twenty four such and so is across the country which are intended to develop manufacturing the high tech sector tourism a logistics companies already enjoy a special tax regime at the head of the special economic zones says the project is already bringing in new foreign money. so they have a currently the overall volume of investment companies have committed to investing in the special economic zones he seeks ten billion dollars listen canvassers

investments in the industrial innovation to restore logistics and we expect a substantial amount of the sum to be invested here for example in april japan his company is upon you time plans the total investment over and four hundred million dollars. well that's all the business news for now thanks for watching and to stay with our team. really.

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