we'll. bring you the latest inside stintz technology from. the future covering. it with us here live from moscow all of our top stories japan's in a race against time to prevent a radiation leak and the possible meltdown that paralyzed the fukushima power plant the team of workers are risking their lives to try to cool the overheating reactors at the facility that was struck by a massive earthquake and tsunami probably could go. beyond japan's shores panic is spreading faster than radiation people in russia's far east stock up on preventive medicine and they give up the fish staple diet as they think it could be

contaminated and people are warned they are actually putting their health and the region's economy at risk. and in other news at this hour despite libya's government saying it's stopping military operations there are reports that the fighting goes on france the u.k. and other countries are preparing to enforce a no fly zone over libya after receiving backing from the u.n. security. but disaster in japan hearing from russia's emergencies minister about the challenges facing the japanese authorities as international teams add to the massive rescue and recovery operation that discussion is coming you're right next.

and because it is the shuttle 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 plants or factories but it also involves a most complicated and difficult disaster the nuclear radiation issue it is the first case both in the history of japan and world history on such large scale destruction and damage to economy industry and power production in this kind of situation it is not only about restoring the life sustainment systems for the population but also about taking care of safety of both the environment and our neighbors or the. couple in your opinion is on the priority list of your japanese

counterpart now and how it's changing as to earthquake recovery works are progressing. 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 on the 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 are ready to support them should they need our help or consultation. the third issue is drinking water

drinking water problems on such 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 a 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 a week i was providing. the package of what we offer our japanese counterparts can be larger than it stands at present as you know russia 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 that's a 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 we'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 the 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 but young man's control and the current situation what resources are most important for rescue. the most important resource now is evacuation 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 again speed this requires medical support supplies of water and food providing sheltered as may not sound like much as i say it's put 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 and 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 what you say you act exactly the same way or maybe differently. 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 experience 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 thyroid glands on vegetation they invested a huge amount of money in these studies and have done a large amount of work together with russian researchers thus they did their best to use that situation to their advantage 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 task 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 for 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 and their endeavors and the worst thing of course is that people themselves die this is the

enemy that we should all fight to get or. most 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 with how can society prepare for such disasters is it even possible for a coastline to protect itself from the tsunami if it's not. the risk management system that our japanese colleagues have for counteracting such natural disasters both 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 u.n. and come up with serious guidelines for positioning of these facilities this flow 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 automatically to problem was with the cooling systems . that's a shadow of the japanese are giving more information about what is really going on there and how they are handling this kind of risk assessment having 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 offer a 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 it's flora and fauna naturally our service works twenty four seven we taking measurements hourly we have a special aviation group they take samples of the air on the come chalk up in insular cycling career islands and put more c cry we doubled the number of our monitoring stations where samples are taken and analyzed them regularly in the last two days we simulated the worst case scenario and the children 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've 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 that 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 it successfully i tell the ambassador that if there is anything we can help with we are ready to do it. just will. experts assessment. of 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 could 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 center we have big heavy robots that are able to clean up debris and high levels of radiation or when there is a chemical hazard i highly recommend you visit this center this is 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. thank you very much for this interview thank you. in canada and the u.s. that it is legal for you to get a bubble bath and your baby contains

a known carcinogen something that causes cancer most of the. independent counsel and i can do spirit and most of the great donut places a call for coffee just today an average cancer drug prescription costs nearly one thousand six hundred dollars a month oh my god nobody was canceling my fun and therefore i protect. because ninety five percent of cancers hurt people with self from the history of cancer the pharmaceutical industry spends about fourteen percent of their budget on research and development and about thirty one percent for marketing and ministration. in fact there are more pharmaceutical industry lobbyists in washington d.c. and members of congress.

the headlines are on odds he plans in a race against time to prevent the radiation leak and the possible meltdown paralyze fukushima power plant that seam of workers are risking their lives to try to cool the overheating reactors at the facility that was struck by a massive earthquake under tsunami a week ago. and beyond of japan's shore was panic is spreading faster than radiation as people in russia's far east stalk of one preventive medicine and give out the fish they think could be contaminated people don't want they're actually putting their health on the region's economy. and in other news this hour as spike libya's government saying it's stopping the military operations there are reports

the fighting is going on in front of the u.k. and other countries are preparing to enforce a no fly zone over libya after receiving backing from the u.n. security council right now time for the sports with kate. and i welcome to the sports news thank you for joining me and the other top stories . plus a battle spots course out in the u.s. a play quarter finals ought to take these past i actually lost a. lot prize draw a tells he will face manchester united in the quarter finals of the champions league. and one more attempt to. have another chance to make seven kind of us safe and also announce. well the ice hockey in tennis needs to come but first of all moscow has drawn courts all in the quarter finals of the europa league

after beating i.x. train on thursday nights remain russian representatives will go to the portuguese powerhouse for the first leg on april seventh and post their rivals i'm also a week later the overall we're not well placed to get away out of seats empty in the semifinals in the other matches prague will need to denounce here and then speak up yes beyond hope and. well russian side they need some says gal also in action on thursday nights for a final to regress and it's one to know what's going to f.c. expense in the second leg of their last sixteen time when south st so on i get those sets of players who are back on balance having respect for his age goalkeeper like yourself not to play if things wife is killed in a car crash just hours before takeoff you think just know that the times in the golden elsewhere to scour last she want to portside to got three one and i got so upset because spartak cruz dos i actually won in moscow the first opticals from the major combat off balance and one off of the right by alex seaman record on its

knees into the quarter finals. for that if we were in the second half as we did in the first it would have been a perfect game but in the last thirty minutes one can understand the footballers i think the score is three nil i.x. needs to score fewer which is virtually impossible that's the reason i think we all live in to be relaxed about it and then i actually create three or four opportunities that you can really want to keep in the scoring of these as well as i did. break them about our service i think we lost a game in the first quarter five minutes people started played quite. well and much better than last week because i think we room. aggressive for another first of we didn't anticipate. enough. well so well the relevant people went through with aggregate wins over violator cues and perry sandra respectively but it was a bad night for british clubs liverpool were knocked out by portuguese side brother after goalless draw rangers lost to p.s.v. eindhoven ten months the city files were to come demonic here mario balotelli

descends off after thirty six minutes and although aleksandar kolarov quickly put sixty one the lot still lost three one and i guess so frustration for a manager about them on cheney while next up for dinner is stronger but that russian community i mean to the point that. good. preferences don't return in all depends look at the draw and i just want to give credit to my players to present to teams manchester suzi it's a great challenge. for these i think that torturing them play as we call it on their course because we played well we didn't cause it any chance. of them. writing that legacy there was a better. well meanwhile the draw for the champions league quarter finals was also made this friday morning with think of that icing chelsea taking on manchester united chelsea have

a home advantage for the first leg winners this quarter final place never wins the clash between defending champions interact and chopra elsewhere barcelona was a hundred crying out exact times and that's to bring us back one facing out a real madrid or tottenham sunday finals the first legs will be played on the fifth and sixth of april for the return leg so we place our. hands in other football news also have resigned their form a key player yet lehmann until the end of the season so he's a goalkeeping crisis of the club of course you want your old not retired just a few months ago but the former germany number one has agreed to come back to the gunners ready to play for five years until two thousand and eight injuries to the squad have meant manuel almunia was austin's only think goalkeeper. euro triumph was. for the rest of this year because we have the. voice of god for six weeks we have money or you know it was six weeks. of course study and schiavo for the rest of the season and. so we have no car worth of any experience of doing the premier

league match why i decided to be caught up and when you know and of course to give us some experience i mean while monster united defender rio ferdinand could be out for the rest of the season with a cough injury it sounds to you not his problems at the back with fellow center half the money of it also out for saturday's league game honda also monaco strikes focus and will start sudden spiking touchline ban closer points by dominate the soldiers for the part of last week or so are the defenders can enjoy their real for a few weeks. what up or not so we're looking at. a short term. station for us which to me you know started training. i was amazed i was going to be there working maybe again by some part of the season . and also i feel the chiefs set last a place is

a fight to stay in charge of football's world governing body after asian football chief mohammed bin hammam has confirmed he will stand against blatter in the presidency elections this summer come out has been touted as a potential successor for his influence to help out all with the right to host the twenty twenty two world cup he believes he can get enough votes to end that's just bursting your brain and spurs the football world to back is good. and by paying them. what what can it. we are here to be part of my. comic the cheering that. this is very near and. let's move to the ice not dream team sky will shortly take on atlanta in the moscow region as a means to reach the going cup semi finals for the first time scar three two up in that best of seven series so women will see them through atlantis will be desperate

to please the home crowd and force the deciding game in some beach as well solace you live are already through and on that rather longer goal it was enough to book both of them on thursday and remember in five feet of defending champions at palace on the road rather a lot of fans were back at the ankles that early in the second period no goals followed in this page a game between sol about to go through after winning the best of seven series or one. and in the other game having god edged their heads in their quarter final against not so it was a second straight overtime victory for the regular season champions and their position once again grabbing a winner. and meanwhile and h.l. teams won't be playing shows sides in exhibition matches for the forseeable future due to a disagreement over wage demands this is according to k.h. or president alexander medvedev spoke exclusively with r.t. . it looks like that we will not see you are such nations that season there if i want to be one of these i'm in a child you care for so for say

a few you really businesslike approach while the offer was also favorable than for us photos he would throw us amazing little requests. if you compare from west to spend money i would do something. else. instead of spring for spring from whence we waited for the open door for. you in your folk you are probably percent sure that the. losing look. not only the possibility to get money because maybe they could get this money for the right peons but the possibility to expand their interest. for their own game susie's are completely risk rachel. now the latest from the center is that indian wells were top seed rafael nadal only just made it through to the semifinals after a real tussle against evil college college had taken the first second seven five

four down next to the second to level the match but the decider was tight with no doubt just playing it on a tie break to reach the semifinals results after his first try for five months and the next it's unlikely they'll quatro the argentinian proceed to go over to greater time as the straight line muscle. out on the women's side was number one caroline wozniacki is also through to the last for her opponent victoria azarenka also retired with a hip injury early in the first set and russian maria sharapova will play was the out sleeper place in the final after getting past china's one point three secs. to the n.b.a. where portman tally very easy outing against cleveland winning the game one hundred eleven points to seventy marcus aldridge landed twenty points and eleven rebounds and united trailblazers jumped into thirty seven twelve lead our first quarter and never looked back when was already out of reach for the cavs by halftime with

a trial by leaping thirty ballpoints to sixty four and the onslaught continued with the k.c. series of the blazers people may just try to do you want to shotgun with will all night or lot for all and final score again until eleven seventy. and there were two other games on thursday night the new york knicks got the better of memphis one hundred twenty points to ninety nine tony douglas to trying to nine points for the knicks and chicago extended their longest winning streak in six years to eight games with an eighty four seventy three great straight over the new jersey nets. and finally to goals and paul casey has his nose in front in florida as the englishman elderly two shot lead at the end of the first day of the transition championship on the p.g.a. tour here's casey pressing on the seventh all to go six under par. and a great team shot from ten on the next one followed by another birdie pass the remaining holes to conduct seven under par sixty four that's

a couple of shots of nick what they want well number one most in climb up just four shots off the lead. and that's a lot. more for me in a couple of hours i would see them. we'll . bring you the latest in science and technology from the realm for. the future.

in the czech republic she's available in some gallery hotel and science central. most revolting most stuff. which i'm a taste in bosnia and herzegovina available in. me and the children.