it's now a half past the hour here in moscow with a reminder now about substories japan is battling to restore power to the fukushima nuclear plant to prevent further explosions although fears of radiation leaks are growing countries around the country has now upgraded its nuclear accident waiting to fly out of seven which means the incident has consequences beyond its one location more than six thousand people have died at this point while about ten thousand still missing. and in other news britain is sending fighter jets to

enforce the un's a no fly zone over libya. gave a similar russia poses a foreign intervention but didn't veto the move saying it's all the military motives behind it you have the regimes promising to strike back at civilian aircraft and ships in the country. and it's our return to the disaster in japan he's been hearing from russia's emergencies minister about the challenges facing the japanese authorities as international teams to the massive rescue and recovery operation that discussion is coming your way next. think it was of the stable 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 cancer factories but it also involves a most complicated and difficult disaster a 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 in this kind of situation it is not only about restoring the life sustaining systems for the population but also about taking care of safety of both the environment and our neighbors. what in your opinion is on the priority list of your japanese counterpart now and how is it changing as the earthquake recovery works are progressing but. 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 of 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 outbreaks 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're ready to support them should they need our help or consultation. the third issue is drinking water drinking water problems on such a large territories with over 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. we're going to know 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's 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 but the heavy helicopter capable of carrying up to twenty tons of cargo we are working on a request from our japanese partners for a batch 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 they'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 they're 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 in the current situations what resources are most important for rescue. the most important resource now is a vacuum ration i mean setting up 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 that it requires medical therapy in short it's a 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 which you say you act in fact any way or maybe differently. with you 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 firelight land on vegetation they invested a huge amount of money and the studies and of the 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 cost 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. 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 nami of. the risk management system that our japanese colleagues have for counteracting such natural disasters both our quakes 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 who 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 photo 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 as for earthquakes there are certain issues there too in this case all eleven reactors responded to the seismic activity and began to shuttle four to magically the problem was with the cooling systems. which i go to 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 the 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 there are specialists and authorities are not trying to cover up those risks and taking steps to evacuate people and also offering new

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 its flora and fauna 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 chuck a pin into sakhalin krill islands and three more ski cry we doubled the number of our monitoring stations were 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 the 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 and assess 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 this successfully i tell the ambassador that if there is anything we can help with we are ready to do it. what is a disaster cording to your. x. parts 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 of course i should mention the lessons we learned from chernobyl as an emergency response force we built a large robotic sensor 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 this center with 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 for this record as well thank you very much for this interview thank you. sports is political in ways we don't often even notice especially on the level of culture where our ideas and attitudes as a society are shaped. when it. serves the ties between professional football in the u.s.

military have existed since the start of the n.f.l. back in one thousand twenty that relationship meant slaves during world war two and today that bond is stronger than ever and won't be uncertain as to kill kill kill kill kill a little bit of the history has taught us that sports is never just something that we just sit back and smile and sports always had an important social function and the history of american sports is no different. wealthy british style some kind of. market. has come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy was much stronger for

a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to cause a report on r.g.p. for the full story we've got it from. the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers. the headlines on our t.v. and of japan is battling to restore power to the fukushima nuclear plant to prevent further explosions the fears of radiation leaks all growing itself upgraded its nuclear accident breaking into five albums seven. which means the incident has consequences beyond the province immediate vicinity more than six thousand people are known to have died still about ten thousand on the sea. and in other news britons are sending fighter jets to enforce the un's no fly zone over libya drawn so they gave a similar pledge to russia opposes foreign intervention fifteen thousand veto the resolution saying it's of course the humanitarian motives if they could have the

regime is promising to strike back to the civilian aircraft and the ships in them but it's. time now for sports with. hello there thanks for watching the scores and these other headlines. prize draw with chelsea will face once the united in the quarter finals of the champions league. last defeat i.x. in start to reach the quarter finals of the europa league to use guards to meet. the new team or get their hands on a good car and cup off the holders that possible busts out of. the first in the last few minutes the draw for the champions league quarter finals has been made with a pic of them saying chelsea taking our minds to united chelsea with home advantage for the first leg and the winner of this quarter final will play if we're not out

of the clash between defending champions into milan and shall elsewhere barcelona take on ukraine outfit shakhtar donetsk the winner of that one face either real madrid or tottenham in the semi was the first legs of the trade from the fifth and sixth straight all with lakes week later. and europa league will take place shortly spot at moscow at the only russian club to have made it into that as a need and to scull but also in action on thursday night but failed to progress and he won the second leg of their last sixteen tie against the twenty two year old that still wins out three two one aggregate players on both sides wearing black armbands and respect for the wife of senate goalkeeper just out of malice fear he was killed in a car crash just hours before kickoff. deputized and gold there elsewhere to one to epsom porto in portugal to go at three one and i could guess that spot that moscow cruised three nil victory with the first half goal from the major combat of the ballots in

a month after the break but i liked seeing the red and white easy to call it a far. better if we played the second half as we did the first it would have been a perfect game but in the last thirty minutes one can understand that footballers are feeling their scores i.x. needs to score four which is virtually impossible and that's the reason i think we all learned would be relaxed a bit and my x. to create three or four opportunities dude you can really want to keep your score as well as i did. i think you lost the first of all the. quote. last week. we were. aggressive for not the first of we didn't anticipate. elsewhere villareal and benfica went through with aggregate wins over violated. sanjay man respectively but it was a bad night at the british club's river falls were knocked out by portuguese clubs

braga after a goal restored rangers lost the i haven and ten men managed to city fail to overcome in our making yet in the second leg one deal losing two one on aggregate marion ballack was sent off in last night's match so frustration to his mind he referred to man cheney part in arm as russian coach you can see him and doesn't mind who he will face next to. my preferences don't hold it all depends a little control tonight i just want to give credit to my players to please a team as much as to susie is a great challenge. i am happy for this idea that also players we circle scored on their goals because we. really didn't concede any chance. to them but i think that. there was a was better than another thought arsenal have resigned their full mickey begins lehmann until the end of the season to ease a goalkeeping crisis at the club and the forty one year old mother knows his

retirement from the sport just a few months ago but he's agreed to come back to the gun is where he played for five years until two thousand and eight injuries have meant as arsenal's only thing . he resigned from was. for the rest of us you know because you have. to go through six weeks we have money on your own for six weeks. of course probably unskilled for the rest of the season. so we have a new car of any experience adored in the premier league match why i decided to go . to cover up i'm really young and of course to go some it didn't mean more manchester united defender rio ferdinand could react the rest of the season with a calf injury according to their problems or adding to their problems at the back with fellow center half amanda village also out for saturday's game against bolton a crucial game for league leaders with rivals arsenal away struggling west brom

boss alex ferguson saying things have gone from bad to worse in just a few days the soldiers from the park the last week or so of the defenders can then go to the court where you obviously don't know for a few weeks that is what up or not so we're good for you as a short term. for us who gets to me a lot started training. those reserves going to be here working will be gone by some part of the season and other needs before boss that blatter faces a fight to stay in charge of football's world governing body asian football chief mohamed bin hammam has confirmed he will stand against him in the present the elections this summer how man has been targeted as a potential success after his enormous influence helped cattle win the right to host the twenty twenty two world cup he believes he can get enough votes to end glasses thirteen year reign and it urged the football world to back its peak.

but what really. here to be part of my. comic. and this is. and. let's make twice ok now we're alexander who loves goal since you live in a cage else semifinals after the men from the fleet the defending champions at bars on the road of right on cue to redirect the puck in to be at bars next early in the second period no more goals followed in this page again which means some about go through after winning the best of seven series for one. and in the other game yesterday evan garbage the head in a quarter final against night and there was a second straight overtime pick three for the regular season champions and the people who she went to see again grabbing would clean up. today's match the scar in action and they could join sal about unlawful most even the last four if they get

a win some people still excited three two up in their best of seven six. remark n.h.l. teams will not play sides in exhibition matches for the to see it will feature disagreements over wage demands is the problem according to the k h l president alexander motivated he spoke exclusively with our. well folks like the world not seen such gracious that season there were what we want is the early show due to the sort of saying usually businesslike approach so well for was also favorable going for the full force three would throw us only reasonable requests from. africa where fro west to spend money you would be soon or so. instead of for spring over swing for the board well slated for springboard for doable for you hope you had

a percent sure that the. museum could. not only the possibility to get the money because maybe they could get this money for the requiems but that gets removed as a beautiful expression of the interest. for their own game susan's complication was rescheduled. now the latest from the tennis at indian wells where top seed rafael nadal has only just made it through to the semifinals there after a real tussle against ego college college had taken the first set seven five before the dow swept through the second to level them out of the decider was tied with the dow just playing it on a tie break to reach the semifinals through to the last for its fun martin del potro progressed after the breed dogs retired. and the women's number one car and i wasn't asking the story to the semifinals her opponent big story as a raincoat retired with an injury too early in the first set a maria sharapova play was nasty for a place in the final after getting past jonny show pony in three sets

a look now what has been happening in the n.b.a. were portland had a very easy acting against cleveland winning it one hundred eleven points to seventy the portland blazes really with a convincing victory on thursday night marcus aldridge had twenty points and eleven rebounds as trailblazers jumped to a thirty seven twelve lead after the first pool to never look back when it was already out a great because by our times they trailed thirty four to sixty four on the on still continue the game seeming to be pushing easy for the blazers cleaving may just planted one shot from the floor like i said that the cavs are very fourteen points over the people in the final school one hundred eleven to seventy. two games from thursday night in new york knicks getting the better of memphis a hundred twenty points to ninety nine tony douglas with twenty nine points for the knicks in chicago extended their longest winning streak in six years to eight games with an eighty four seventeen victory over the new jersey nets. p.g.a.

tour released paul casey who has his nose in front in florida a two shot lead for him at the end of the first day of the transitions championship a great teacher opening here during his round of sixty four and that puts him a couple of clear nick watney world number one martin climber has four shots off the lead. that's the school for the moment second we'll have more like her. culture is that so much good music to make even a lot of people a variant book of japan's or me in the world when a disaster hits a major economic and trading power the forces of globalization punish. sports is political in ways we don't often even notice especially on the level of culture

where our ideas and attitudes as a society are shaped. many. times over the ties between professional football in the u.s. military have existed since the start of the n.f.l. back in one thousand twenty that relationship meant slaves during world war two and today that bond is stronger than ever and won't be uncertain as to kill all kill and kill kill anyone can you kill an innocent beast history is taught us the sports is never just something that we just sit back and mock at sports always had an important social function and the history of american sports is no different.

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