the old waverly who turned it isn't also to the mill stone who to some a country house holiday in the blue goldman tells the remembrance grimly it used to feel that the multitude of channels in the world the rueben certain of. japan the battles to get power back to the stricken nuclear plant to prevent further explosions. and is desperately trying to restore power to the cooling systems. as the head of the u.n. nuclear watchdog is your town must stop its equal closely. in business the g seven so now some of that it will intervene to pass the market has helped to curb the billions rally and all eyes are on oil after the u.n. security council declared the no fly zone over libya more likely on its. also this hour britain's sending fighter jets to enforce the un's

a no fly zone over libya. over similar pledge but there's a chilling warning about passenger planes and ships. libyan leader moammar gadhafi praising immediately tell me a ship if the weight goes ahead with plan b. intervention join me in a few moments from the capital city tripoli for an update some. very warm welcome to you this is our story live from moscow well the race is on to restore electricity to japan's stricken no fukushima nuclear facility so the workers there can get their reactor cooling systems back on line. also increase the severity of the accident to a level five out of seven that means the consequences reach wider than the power plants the city it's now a week since the country was rocked by its worst ever post-war disaster that's left thousands of people dead or missing. as the ferocity. 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 things like the only way they're now going to prevent or could be a real nuclear disaster there now think 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 so what they've already managed to do was to lay a power cable from the main bridge 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 housing 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 a copper 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 to the throwing everything they got at this 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 have to cooperate with the international help that government spokesman mr dunn who is the chief cabinet secretary has come out and said but although there are very high radiation readings in some places he says that it doesn't pose a direct negative effect to the one's health 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 within fifty kilometers of a nuclear power plant whereas the japanese government has imposed an exclusion zone

of twenty kilometers tell. residents will in thirteen stay away yesterday because the little bit from the east coast who was fukushima we going to see what residents . 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 guide account for i've got just started beeping wildly and shots up to no point five not 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 started to hand out these face masks here but people are wearing these and they're going to be here peer where very afraid of the radiation who can do know much about it all we can do is follow the media and trust kirkman this. 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 residence of the can and fill up the water they need from points like this in the town 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 all of their truth seeking of the week until 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 and irene like part of the averages lie strewn all over the place here a wall collapsed over here thousands of fallen down such as the force of the tsunami this is also the point where we're going to turn back because it glided counties reading the highest it has done all day one point zero four might receive its plan how i can make here is that i won't be able to live here anymore and this is my home obviously here 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 will shortz arrive to you in full. as artists are better they're reporting from inside japan while at the fukushima nuclear plant the fate of millions now rests in the hands of just a few dozen people known as the faceless fifty teams of workers trying to stop the fukushima facility from reaching a devastating point of no return. explains how manpower is all that stands between success and disaster. and then kinds modern marvels reaching that will need a particle collider to uncover the secrets of creation and trying to master nuclear technology but those advances can come to nothing when a tree strikes and atomic energy are some cower becomes hard to contain days after

difficult or plans first explosion japan's leaders implore everyone to stay calm helicopters and water cannons deployed to call the reactors yet the situation remains critical the japanese government here insisted that only a ten kilometer radius was necessary for evacuation this was the status quo when the earthquake hit and so we're already grave we were already way behind or so great and evacuating and issuing evacuation orders also there is very very little environmental monitoring provided correct information to people i think that the japanese government is saying are trying to protect the japanese people but you cannot protect them from the reality in one thousand nine hundred six the soviet union morgan thousands of people to battle the nuclear disaster at chernobyl japan now has the face of fifty anonymous workers putting themselves up against radiation to keep the reactors from nuclear meltdown i don't think crisis

can be averted the scope of the radiation exposure is are so high and say that i don't think human beings can know can get into the areas that could be accessed in order to put a fire or to put fires out and also to get water into locations where the regime is the highest union essentially ordered its citizens to circumcise their allies to radiation when battling the chernobyl laughter mouth the japan is a democratic state so the workers are meeting is focusing more are doing so willingly the main question is will their efforts prove to be enough to keep the situation from taking a turn for. worse you know the amount of radiation being released now and the amount of radiation good will be released in the cardinal is so great that actually the whole or global defected. disaster only one poll unit was affected you know this really isn't covered the whole goal or so the magnitude of the

looming disaster cannot be predicted now but definitely is going to be one of the worst disasters and world history of technology have they had nasty habit of turning against humans and when that happens the equipment doesn't yet exist different 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 in a cold cold r.t. some in time from a consignee viral who spent years documenting japan says but because he has a history of covering up nuclear accidents at all costs this should serve as its wake up call to look for alternative energy sources. heard reports that the prime minister at least minister has 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 condom information we're getting think one of the things that's going to happen in japan could be wrong about this is that people with definitely rethink their dependence on electricity but one thing that worries some people approach is japan's decision to enjoy the new cycle the question is now does japan really require so much plutonium fuel and if so what is it going to do with it because it compress obliquely use it all we all know what can turn you can be used for if it's modified it can be used for nuclear weapons are to know that you clear power it's not so economic as everybody likes to maintain north is as clean and as we can see when it goes wrong it goes wrong and people were. japanese authorities are giving a grim estimate of the number of people who have died they're expecting it to triple from the current number which stands at around six and

a half thousand there are many more missing over ten thousand still unaccounted for now our correspondents are in the region you can follow them step by step you can keep abreast of all the developments and what they're discovering with constant updates on our twitter stream. across the other developments in japan right now and many many are for you to look at best ok there on our team twitter page just tell us about the untold story. of the fear of radiation contamination is spreading out well beyond japan shores people in russia neighboring the far in start stocking up on preventative medicine but often without seeking proper medical advice it's not easy i think our travel records this could prove far more damaging to both their health and the local economy we see the nuclear catastrophe in japan in five years we are closing nuclear plants the way from these kind of going sort of. it's hard not to be gripped by panic when the

world's high and to my seat sounding the alarm the clue so you are to the baby your chances of speaking out there. which is gradually more so if you're not a physicist or a doctor people in russia's floor is divided from japan by a strip of water four hundred miles across the quickest to react. my friend called me and chipper she's leaving the city i'm not in such panic yet 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 with the president is that if anything really serious happens there things like consuming large amounts of oil going all red wine glass water people often say they're going to do such things won't help the reverse they may seriously damage their health is only 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 foible hands because everyone wants to be on top of official reports preparing for the unknown many go even further by personal radiation meters geiger counters price is no object. in the last three days we sold out our monthly stock of going to counters we now have to turn to our suppliers for an additional shipment of taking reasonable precautions is not but think at all unless panic threatens to become worse than because. 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 panic but at stake is the region's largest business fishing.

it accounts for eighty percent of the diverse stocks of corner meat russia's largest c.t. on the pacific ocean local restaurants offering fresh seafood from the us has both japan are already losing clients customers are afraid of radioactive fish even his styria continues wholesale fish markets could be next to suffer meaning no silver lining to radioactive clouds that may never arrive it's in the church of the r.t.e. good of us the heart now and turning to the rapidly developing situation in libya where nato says it's giving the go ahead launch a military operation against colonel gadhafi his regime britain is preparing to send in fighter jets in the next few hours to enforce the u.n. security council's a no fly zone but after his son says they'll target civilian aircraft and ships in the mediterranean if they're attacked. has more from aaa. 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 hours but there are still many unknowns questions like when exactly will this no fly zone begin who will be involved who will have the chain of command and rockabilly bimbo's majok i would countries both europe and the united states have made it clear that they do not want this to be a so european american response to another muslim country that needs to be military assistance given from the arab world the libyan airspace has been closed or seeking reports of clashes in the country's third largest city of misrata and we've been told that dozens of people have been injured several of them have already been killed to the question of the whole not no fly zone the u.n. chief thank you muna said 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 the movie made a moment ago that he has threatened though that if the international community

intervenes he says to quote him that he will retaliate immediately having said that though the mood on the ground in the city of benghazi the last little stronghold remains defiant when word of that resolution came through people erupted in cheers there were fireworks we did hear from the could he was he hours before that resignation was passed at that stage they pretend that they were planning a massive attack on benghazi since then and since the root of the passing of this edition for two or three weeks here in what seems to be a change of tactics possibly in response to the resolution we're coming off of the gadhafi regime that they don't want to attack the city but they simply want to bring it back into the control people are asking the question what exactly does a note sly is so mean if you look at the resolution it talks about all necessary measures to be taken to protect civilians so many are asking what are all made. systemic measures you need to remember that five countries do that same thing to

russia we also now hearing from turkey they are based in the european countries not to vote they've also said same of course 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 will cross with your stomach is in essence a whole range of questions raised by the russian federation and other security council members remain unanswered questions which were both concrete and legitimate questions regarding how the no fly zone would be enforced and the rules of engagement would be and limits to the use of force provisions were introduced into the text potentially opening the doors and large scale military intervention responsibility for the inevitable humanitarian consequences and the excessive use of outside force in libya it's willful fair and square on the shoulders of those who might undertake such actions if this happens then not only the civilian population of libya but also the cause of upholding peace and security throughout the whole region of africa and the middle east will suffer as a need to avoid such destabilizing develop and such people very concerned if the no

fly zone is not enough what exactly will be the stakes and what exactly will be demands that the international community will go to to protect civilians concerns that this will these two foreign intervention to put soldiers on libyan soil again we hearing from the gadhafi regime to quote them that we will not allow anyone to interfere with our if it is. reporting now. for action against libya that's leaving some wondering why the rest of. the same attention the authorities that are using force against demonstrators with dozens killed and more than a month of clashes. more of what appears to be a case of. god is great the final words of this purported peaceful protesters in bahrain. before he appears to be shot allegedly by behind the security forces since martial law was declared this

week the bahraini government has crackdown on pro-democracy protesters. clearing them out of pearl square where they've been demonstrating. and viral videos though the details can't be confirmed have been surfacing on the internet appearing to show police shooting protesters. point blank it's reminiscent of another uprising against an autocrat i want to address the situation in libya when images and reports of violence against protesters they could dockery's hands in libya reach the u.s. we saw the president take a stand. that i think has lost legitimacy to lead and you must leave early on president obama called for plans for a no fly zone over libya now here at the united nations the security council has since taken the lead on that but meanwhile the united states has already sent warships along with humanitarian aid in libya's direction it's tough economic

sanctions on the country essentially freezing it out of the u.s. banking system and reports suggest the u.s. has also played a more covert world role in the north african conflict an opposition that the cia has for thirty years is right now. according to people in direct contact with activists on the ground in bahrain. they too are begging for help from the u.s. . the u.s. has a military base in the island country the navy's powerful fifth fleet and six thousand troops are stationed there and in response to a brutal crackdown the u.s. president has wielded his authority to pick up the phone and call the king of bahrain the president expressed his deep concern over the violence in bahrain and stressed the need for maximum restraint words the forces on the ground now backed

by one thousand saudi arabian troops don't appear to be listening to critics say the talk doesn't amount to any help for the bahraini people it amounts to this absolutely there's a double standard in the way the u.s. deals with friend versus unlikely b.-a the brain is a strong u.s. ally in the oil rich persian gulf it's all about oil it's also all about geo political military strategy the us has a lot of military assets in the persian gulf right now and we want to make sure they stay there u.s. interests coming at the cost of people's lives and if it costs to have the values of human rights and democracy the us claims to care so much about. what is war this. is more important it's just ridiculous than. goes against everything we believe in and that's the secret you're looking at

american. helicopter gunships you know which are protesters in the capital and that is where the united states stands on the issue tacitly behind autocrats. or against depending on the threat to u.s. interests not to lives lauren lyster r.t. new york. you know it all if you live from moscow now let's get to some world news for your brief this hour police in yemen have reportedly shot dead thirty antigovernment protesters more than one hundred were wounded when officers apparently opened fire on a demonstration tens of thousands gathered in the capital of the main square following friday prayers they want a president ali abdullah saleh to stand down but the protests are often met with police response. shells have been fired during your 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 thought is opposed to president laurent bible and

claim to participate in global calls for him to go after he lost a deeply disputed election four months ago but u.n. says three hundred seventy thousand people reflect the escalating pressures. of the european airplane maker is facing manslaughter charges of the air france crash in two thousand and nine or two hundred twenty eight aboard died when their air boss a three thirty plunged into the atlantic during an intense thunderstorm it was on route from paris to rio janeiro is still not known exactly why the plane came down but now a new multimillion dollar search will start next week to find the data recorders well to keep aussie close to you for you can join us on our facebook page it's your chance to would give feedback on what you're watching as events unfold world brings to our video coverage of japan and libya with today's other top stories as well as

right into the flight instruction for. it's just one word on place. for more on the global ramifications of japan's earthquake and the tsunami in the cross talk that's coming your way in after nine minutes time but first test with the business things. welcome to the business update now 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 hit its highest level against the dollar since the second world war strengthening to seventy six and a quarter in u.s. trading but it fell back in later sessions it's currently trading at around eighty two gana per dollar well below say a coordinated effort by the world's biggest economies would have a big impact that if the japanese sample back bank is 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 which it has settled back has already injected nearly seven hundred billion dollars into the country's financial sector let's see how the markets are performing in reaction to the g seven intervention to curb the yes so japanese shares struck nearly three percent while the currency itself tumbled the investors were also showing some optimism that further radiation leak could be contained at the fukushima nuclear plant and stock markets elsewhere in asia also rose on the g seven bid to stabilize global markets. posts like the op on friday. you're of the markets are also on the rise with investors of you feeling improvements in the world stock and commodities markets but that's on the back of the g. seven meeting and slightly calming news coming from japan both the footsie and the tax are up about half a percent at this hour. and here in russia the stock markets are slightly

retreating from early morning gains whatever the r.t.s. is speeding over half a percent of the wisest move to rout the waterline oil related stocks are leading the upward trend as commodity prices continue to grow let's look at some of the individual share booths right now back so. also among the big winners this hour with some bad luck around a third of a percent higher oil is also rising it's point six percent on the bisect bucking the trend gazprom is down point five percent yes and food prices are trading in the block the session both brant and light sweet are showing gangs of more than a dollar this hour that's awful you have approved the no fly zone over libya sparking fears about oil supplies from the war torn nation all of it other factors other investors spotlight is the situation in japan as a reconstruction of the quake hit country is likely to boost oil demand given the extent of the damages the energy analysts more of what the purpose is the board strand is not yet over. it was. shown from libya is going to

resume normally in the next week i don't think. so we need to continue to current production out of the world situation. hangs on the for a long time and the current sanctions would prevent a lot of that oil moving so that creates a situation for the upside and we shouldn't forget as well pushing the middle east since it's kind of very unstable. i mean we have seen for instance troops coming in through but waiting for all these things. situation to be upside in markets. japan's third largest car producer nissan is in talks about more than twenty five percent of russian car giant gulf of us nissan reportedly classwork part of the stake from to what the nature of shareholders started your log in the

russian technologies corporation which owns roughly twenty five percent to nineteen percent respectively the japanese carmaker says it's part of renault will keep its current twenty five percent blocking stake in russia's hard line they go acquire the after of us holding in two thousand and eight for a billion dollars. well russia's state owned companies will compile their financial reports in line with international status from one to thirteen and it's all that will help investors get a clearer picture of the firm's full state of affairs the central bank's deputy chairman says the shift will require efforts from both backs and the regulator which has been a real plus 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. that's all the business news for now thank you for watching and do say with r.t. . issues that so much good news really made a lot of people here you look at japan and say in the world when a disaster hits a major economic and trading power the forces of globalization punish the. news today is once again flared up. these are the images go cold and seeing from the streets of canada. trying.