sure is that so much of it is really believe it a lot of people here you look at japan's in the world when a disaster hits a major economic and trading power the forces of globalization punish the. ten thirty at night here in the russian capital to tell you this is our two top stories now this hour despite libya's government saying it's stopping military operations there are reports that fighting is continuing france the u.k. and other countries are preparing for the no fly zone over libya after receiving the u.n. security council back. to parents in a race against time to prevent a radiation leak and possible meltdown of the paralyzed for pushing a power plant the scene of workers risking their lives to try to cool the overheating reactors at the facility stricken by a massive earthquake and tsunami

a week ago. and beyond japan's shores panic is spreading faster than radiation has been much as far as stock caught on preventive medicines and stop eating fish which they think could be contaminated the people of all they're actually putting their health and the region's economy at risk. or staying with japan artie's been 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 interview is next on the to. the shade thank you very much for finding time for us today how do you assess today's situation in japan. deciduous unit 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 of 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. what in your opinion is on the priority list of your japanese counterpart now and how is it 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 the middle order of priority now one 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 are 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 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 a power supply problem now on the whole it is a very large and complex emergency situation which requires imminent solutions to multiple problems similar to any 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 leads to another i think a domino effect. when you know how is russia helping japan what i would 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 aid 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 patch 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 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 beyond man's control and the current situations what resources are most important for rescue. the most important resource now is evacuation i mean setting up the 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 sheltered this 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 get some advice on things we can see from here in order to tell exactly how we would act under such circumstances we 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 thyroid gland and 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 to 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 endeavor and the worst thing of course is that people themselves die this is the enemy that we should all fight to get are. 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 of response and. 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 and 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 asked 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. this is a group 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 been 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 a 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're taking measurements hourly we have a special aviation group they take samples of the air on the come chalk up an insular circle in korea lin's and to morsi 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 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 scale 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 this successfully i tell the ambassador that if there is anything we can help with we are ready to do it. experts assessment. it's hard to tell given japanese sources are getting 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 center we have big heavy robots that are able to clean up degre and high levels of radiation or when there is a chemical hazard i highly recommend you visit the sensor you could 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 threaded. thank you very much for this interview thank you. yes my name is daniel schmidt just as julia found we're here to make a short presentation of all that we can fix project. the first. in the fourth of a few to get information out about the real world. join him. on the matter and the. secret is because you're going to be

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cubic but you know what you know so tell pyrrhic to micro tells you how to kill durable chico town and you're like toast. in serbia multis available in most clips and hyatt regency they are going to. pop stores it's on auntie despite libya's government saying it's stopping military operations they all reports the fighting is continuing to france and you can and other countries are preparing for some no fly. zone over libya after receiving the un security council back. from japan is in a race against time to prevent a radiation leak in a possible meltdown at the paralyzed for pushing a pram plant a team of workers are risking their lives to try to clear the overheating reactors at the facility stricken by a massive earthquake and tsunami a week ago. and beyond japan's shores panic is reading foster the radiation people in russia's far east stock up on preventive medicines and stop eating fish which they think could be contaminated people born to actually putting their health

and the region's economy at its about with more news for us in fifteen minutes and on the meantime kate is next with all the latest sports highlights. although welcome to the sport here are the headlines gigantic comeback outlands win against of course the deciding game in the quarter finals against dream team scott . wallace in the last eight battle spots uk will go to porto in the first leg of the europa league quarter finals. and prize to chelsea will place manchester united in the cake at the champions league quarter finals i saw the first go and it will go down to the wire for atlantans go in the garden cup quarter finals levels the best of seven series thanks to a two one win on business took an early lead in the second period where some trust there at the back but at only checks has been at your goal and you are not taken

scored by the side of the second break so a second straight when you grab lands who are on the brink of a nation that are not in level tones wisco but when alan spotlight must have gone quarter when the quarter finals of the europa league out of using i.x. three now on thursday night remaining russian representatives will go to the portugal for the first leg on april seventh as their rivals for the overall when that will face the way out of what i see twenty in the semifinals while in the other matches brawl got will need to do nicely after and yes we are hoping and meanwhile chelsea will take on announced tonight is in the thick of the champions league quarter finals also are behind the first leg and the winner will play the vix at three in defending champions interland and child in the semifinals elsewhere barcelona will take on tracks automats with the winner by saying either realm of trade or top of the first leg so we played on the fifth and sixth of april with a return like so replace that and chelsea manager carlo ancelotti says he'll be

talking a down to earth approach to that time. in the promoters appointed a number released we have two players managers that. we know where we were and they go on as well we would regret it within them. very excited because we have to play our show but i believe so well established will be difficult to live i mean we want to don't want to believe there's anything. and other football news also have resigns their former keeper younes lehmann until the end of the season the reason goalkeeping price is not the club ahead of saturday's trip to west brom a forty one year old had retired just a few months ago the former germany number one has agreed to come back to the gunners where he played for five years until two thousand and eight injuries to the squad had a man's man while only up was all smiles only fit goalkeeper i mean romance united defender here hurt enough could be out the rest of the season with a coughing injury disaster united's problems at the back with fellow sense of hope

and when you put it also at saturday's league game and bolton also alex ferguson will start serving his five top flight data so it's not a surprise monitors rather downbeat soldiers from the part the last week or so are the different us and injuries that got real obviously for a few weeks now anyway it's what up or not so. we can feel as though we're short term. in office which to me you know it's not a training yeah it was for me as i was going to be. the work will be gone by some progress isn't. united and also as much as are taking place in the english premier league on saturday elsewhere told in post a lunchtime london dobby against west ham spurs could leave for chelsea fans of both with victory and with the bottom collins struggling aston villa second gotten roots in the middle and darby's pot as a north west fuel between black and blackpool stoke place newcastle rock bottom

we're going to take on burning up in the basement battle and everton often followed in the late game while on sunday fourth place chelsea has a third place to match the city and a battle for automatic trappings league place earlier sunderland welcomed little paul by sides targeting you grade leagues for next season. leading to russia where surprise premier league leaders must also travel to moscow on saturday to take on the amount of hindsight suffered a dramatic screeching loss to look and see in their season opener and are looking safely into their first win of this campaign top flight and you come across an adult welcome spotted. by thousands yet to win and on sunday two thousand and nine champions ravine from school kazan side to side acknowledged by former dutch star little it's looking to me out of the car if you for that second straight win siberian outfit tom has been brisk about. stooges you can do right police action all the talk about sport monday spartak moscow could claim their first three points

as they take on new comers balder at the weekend stadium in its will face their second flash of the year with help of both played in the russian culture i knew this long and spacecraft are going to sonora that passion in the us a bit of. golf not an ounce the wall five a four in the second round of sixty seven taking two shot lead in the you know if you will sicilian open the tourist ryder cup captain colin montgomerie who struggled for form in recent years also remains in contention in sicily he finished the day on trucks adrift their leader we're going to go after six. frenchmen. and do today. in their second place he called it a round of sixty nine so why seven under along with australian richard green in five of the sixty seven words englishman war leads the way of following up his opening round of sixty six we are going to have a bogey free efforts through to the radar here at the twelfth. fern's got a treat in moscow on friday as

a soviet legend all the best so bonus made a trip to one of the city's academies are promoting european championships which reports. the thirty first of august will be a private moment this time out of it as suborn is as his native if you ania the host the european basketball championships for the first time since nine hundred thirty nine hundred three star wars had a fine career with the san antonio spurs in the n.b.a. says it will be a great honor. for lithuania is a country where basketball is the number one sport we managed to sell fifty thousand tickets in just two hours and there are none left it's a great all up for us to hold this event and we were trying to put on a great show but a lot depends on how the lithuanian team plays. promoting the event which gets underway in six months time isn't the only reason suborn is in moscow deals are paid a visit to the local basketball academy a former center was complementary about the facilities and explained why

a country like a few a year which only has a population of three million is able to compete at the highest level. if you have a russian has exactly the same facilities that you would find in lithuania the difference is in popularity i believe in counts which has a population of three hundred thousand and there are six possible schools there are around one thousand five hundred boys able to train this gives us a huge number of place to choose from and no one slips through the net competition is high in russian sport with basketball having to compete with the likes of football ice hockey and tennis which is far more popular the best youngsters however it's unlikely that basketball in this country will ever be able to compete with the popularity it holds look you when you're there you know the basketball started to become popular lithuania before the second world war and it is increasing popularity ever since we are a small country and we always want to put our country on the map and the fact we are quite good at basketball the old. pulled the door to children of this academy

will have posters of under the kirilenko le bron james on their bedroom walls it's nice for them to have a look at someone is younger generation may not know who to meet so twenty one centimeters center actually is how others will be in for a nice surprise when they find out he was one of the soviet union's greatest ever basketball players. always possible players one even borman are disappointed says miss prime helping the summit union to win goal of this olympics in ninety ninety eight but if they can go on to have even half a career that is home a great had a very in for a fantastic possible career future richard they don't see moscow. finding great britain's allan wells and daley thompson who both won gold at the 1980's games were back in the russian capital on friday and the place where they made history now. nine hundred eighty million big mascot says goodbye most skilled in flies away the games are over although the victory is clean but the efforts revel three years

later and jewels winners who don't look police where they earn fame luzhniki stadium great britain's own wills and bill thompson respectively claimed gold in the one hundred mirrors energy company back in one thousand nine hundred eighty just three inches separated wells from the pre-race favorite cuba sylvia laird in a full feeding off it was standing here looking at looking at the scoreboard wondering who had won and because it came up in russian initially. it was only when it came up in english well if either when it came on the russian it's about my name very similar and that was when i realized that one is so it was only it was on it up point one thousand and thirty nine hundred eighty games as the world record holder and undisputed favorite in the olympic gold four years later you know sanjay was again arguably one of the greatest athletes in history science for people but i

am very. very focused i do not look. just. just to my work and i don't remember i don't remember so much about about the competition just each one just trying to do it. as well as i possibly can what hundred days london will host the next summer olympics with both wealth and constant looking forward to see the new generation of british limpness make history just like they did as possible i think i think we will be a while inspiration from having the the olympics and year on by garden so to speak and i think that can inspire a lot of the a lot they are these two to better things to get. things i think the russia would do very well. would do better i will be the. number one r.t. my skill. i think.

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