it's hundred thirty pm on monday the twenty first of march thanks for being with our team for moscow these are the top stories dmitry medvedev says the foreign air strikes on libya are a direct result of the shameful behavior of colonel gadhafi for the crimes carried out against his people the russian president's first civilian should not be put at risk one fourth of the no fly zone. in the last hour from the libyan capital tripoli we're hearing reports of fresh explosions and anti aircraft by close to gadhafi compound military command center the same sites also being destroyed

a number of people reportedly killed destroyed supposedly so far six. and another emergency teams been evacuated from japan's fukushima nuclear site the smoke is seen rising from a paralyzed reactor engineers and managed to restore that because of the three reactors and it's hoped that could enable them to the start phase he says. missing that story next as r.t. his from a nuclear engineer who works at the scene of the chernobyl disaster he gives us his thoughts about whether it's right to draw comparisons between the two. best course of action might be next. a civil rights of guinea thank you very much for taking the time to talk to us after that your novel catastrophic you were in charge of containing nuclear emissions from the exploded reactor to understand what situation the japanese workers are finding themselves in right now he needs

a plane to us what was it like to work in chernobyl not of. it when there was a great deal of work to be done but we only had seconds or minutes to do the job if we wanted to avoid a long term impact on human health can you imagine what the conditions were like according to statistics from the un report more than six hundred fifty thousand rescuers took part in dealing with the consequences of the chernobyl nuclear power plant accident that gives you an idea about the scale of that effort in which practically all sort of ministries and agencies were involved. five years have passed since that accident we were commemorating that anniversary and were drawing conclusions the i.a.e.a. senior expert john jacko lang of france came to visit us when he learned about what we had done and when he learned that i had been one of those who supervised the construction of a containment over the damaged nuclear reactor and said it's a guinea and no one in the world be it the americans the british the french and the

germans or the japanese could have done separately all together what do you the soviet people managed to do in such a short period of time. let's not compare the two eras or their political circumstances in sweden on august twenty sixth people came to work they also had a nuclear power plant over there and as they entered the premises radiation counters showed they were polluted an alarm was sounded and an investigation began the plant itself the only possible source of trouble was ok even so they looked at the windows diagram and it pointed to kiev the swedes raised worldwide fervor and so the soviet union was forced to admit but an accident had happened it would have recognized the fact anyway but only later were building them in india in iran and in china turkey is preparing to place an order to the collapse of the u.s.s.r. did affect the industry to normal caused a major outflow we had to meet at the situation and saw that the reactor core fragments were scattered over

a wide area out of that atmospheric movement so we realized that there was every reason to cover what could be the source of further radioactive discharges a shelter had to be built it was another matter what kind of shelter but covering it was a must. it was decided that after a sarcophagus was build people would be able to come close to it and the radiation measurements on its surface shouldn't exceed one hundred can an hour that was unattainable i regret to say but the walls did show something near it where we failed was the roof. the work was on the verge of engineering risks you had to have in jewish and and an immense amount of courage that situation began to change and that enabled helicopters to fly at low altitudes for better observation we developed specialized bathyscaphe tanks inside which people were lowered every day we gained new knowledge every day we introduced certain modifications and as a result it became possible to do it within a brief period. with us that's. what happened to

those who worked at the chernobyl power plant after the explosion you know the stories of those people how many survived. today i don't have the statistics about how many of us are already dead so i think it's quite a lot disability accounts for sixty or seventy thousand of the six hundred fifty thousand rescuers in fact the chernobyl tragedy affected my whole family being a professional i understood that there was no want to do that job except for the professionals it's clear second my wife dealt with nuclear energy she also visited the chernobyl nuclear power plant regrettably today she has cancer after several serious operations she's now though it's hard for me to say a person with very limited physical ability but she's not the only one there are many people like her. it's a very serious matter i think we can draw comparisons between the chernobyl accident and the current events in japan and we should understand that there's

a great difference between the two disasters and luckily according to the information which i have although it's rare that she even for an expert it's hard to assess what's happening there. in a worst case scenario how bad the situation could be in japan. for the only thing i can say is that no active zones or active fuel discharges into the atmosphere have taken place thank god that's why the scale of the disaster in japan is different yes it's true that the radiological situation around the station is periodic li getting worse and radiation levels are increasing dependent on events there i mean minor explosions that destroyed radioactive gases but the most important thing is that there are no discharges of nuclear fuel which contain the entire periodic table of chemical elements that is why the events that are unfolding in japan will be less global than the chernobyl nuclear power plant accident exceeded ninety times the yield of the bomb that was dropped on hiroshima

first i don't think the discharges are going to be as massive as at chernobyl second the atomic energy industry will suffer certain losses because of the reactors hit by explosions and they're going to be lost five six or even seven nuclear reactors out of fifty five operating in japan form a significant share but there are unlikely to cause fundamental change but the most important thing that we have to bear in mind is that the current negative events in japan are taking place at the first generation nuclear power stations they were built in one hundred seventy one they're forty years old by the way the chernobyl nuclear power plant was also built in the one nine hundred seventy s. . that's why the current state of atomic energy i'd like to mention russia first the russian atomic energy industry has undergone significant changes and modernization since general additional changes have been introduced to projects and specifically to the metal as we call it the safety standards of today's nuclear power stations are worlds apart from the safety levels of stations built in the one

nine hundred seventy s. or eighty's everybody predicts fears and so panicked that the powerful reactors of the type used to travel are still in operation and are not safe enough but the safety standards of these reactors has also been upgraded therefore they pose absolutely no threat today. after the chernobyl accident the world sort of stepped back from atomic energy people felt negative about it they were reluctant to work on it moreover young people didn't want to learn it and develop it further i guess the hardest consequence of novel was this gap in intergenerational continuity today's generation in charge of the world's atomic energy can take over those traditions all the experience of those who actually created atomic energy at that time. but the ones that got the engine you discovered is the japanese the same version of it you know which of the in order to preserve human lives there has to be an agency to supervise such dangerous industries it should set regulations and

requirements developed on experience knowledge and traditions for these industries certainly it is agency should be created within the u.n. today they say that the i.a.e.a. determines the policy but unfortunately the i.a.e.a. has no such rights even though it certainly has s's large intellectual potential in this area but it's just a recommending agency it can't prohibit someone from doing something today. today the prime minister of japan is taking over the direction of operations of those stations this is the wrong decision that he has a lot of other should not be related issues to attend to including villages towns and industries washed away by the waves thousands of victims and so on this is his main headache spike that he's torn between the two but he's no specialist in this area what i mean is that we must have a highly organized and most importantly international agency which is given the authorization to act. you know what.

every chanel was so high that people couldn't spend more than a minute near the tree on the reactor and had to wait for hours afterwards to continue their work one of the first symptoms of radiation exposure on people report of normal reviews or. some people have far more physical resilience than others it's highly individual let me give you an example there was a postwar accident at a nuclear facility in yugoslavia three scientists were exposed to radiation two of them died but one survived an investigation established that he had drunk some alcohol before it all happened just that unlike the other port that radiation level is twenty or thirty normal amount in japan right now people are scared even in russia's far east what is the critical figure to show to be worried fever. the figure that you need not fear is twenty million room comes an hour it's absolutely safe being the natural background mountain climb is going more exposure for example

people flying on board aircraft get between twenty and one hundred times more exposure than that your airborne for just three or four hours and that's all a lack of information breeds panic this mustn't be allowed everyone should have truthful and accurate information we mustn't be afraid of information if in japan there are no discharges outside the buildings if you will or fragments of the reactor core are not polonium to the atmosphere will be nothing to fear everything will be normal inquired. how does one act or want to throw grenades. were firstly don't come into the open if you can avoid it shut all the windows and doors and switch off your air conditioning if you have any secondly put on your individual protective gear the respirators specialized protective clothing that should be changed from time to time get ahold of the dosage meter and had it with you wherever you go to monitor the situation. that's the word for thank you very much for your time.

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the top stories from our team to me to preventive says the foreign air strikes in libya are a direct result of the shameful behavior of colonel gadhafi and the crimes carried out against his people that the russian president stressed civilians should not be put at risk while the police and when the boys are. in the last hour from the libyan capital tripoli we're hearing reports of fresh explosions and anti-aircraft fire close to gadhafi is pumping out military command center at the same sites already been destroyed a number of people reportedly killed in strikes across libya so far stands at six. in other news today emergency teams have been evacuated from japan's fukushima nuclear site a smoke is seen rising from

a paralyzed reactor engineers have managed to restore electricity to three reactors and that so it could enable them to restart the system it was much more losses on one critical circuit artsy dot com you're from the sport there too but heavy units here right now for a live sports update and it looks like no about your beach can't put a foot wrong on the courts haven't in deed right you or twenty matches he's had he has lost one of them is living over the world's number one we have a look at that in just a second. thank you for joining us this is for today i'm you know neal i'm just some of the stories are coming over the next ten or eleven minutes or so. and then there are four months become the last teams to book their births in the semifinals of the continental hockey. moving all up in the top of each piece of rock in the part of

us open a bit. above roger federer the second in the world. and crossing swords it's joy for a host russia as the muscle saber tournament gets another i think in the capital. going with the russian premier league worth three games where the second weekend of action tonight plus inclement weather shortened. career home game the system. constant snow over the weekend in summer and any hopes of play is in need to meanwhile have joined rubin of the league summit following. must go have fun spot from their shock opening defeat last weekend. barcelona remain the team to catch in the premier league a couple on giants points against meaning the pressure is still very much on arch

rivals real madrid not to harawira to pick up the option from the weekend that was in spain i was a loner when she gives her time for a leading the league by five points and i still to extend an advantage right from the off. the man breaking with an absolute peach of a strike in seventeen minutes must learn to continue to attack in droves and at the beginning of the second homes are encouraged to go back to school the diminutive for nearly one hundred people with. could. be the final. man from their opponents. crossing for the. finish. how it ended it was derby day in madrid. aiming for the first in twelve years of trying attacking football very much par for the course that's. being started he informed the manager he supposedly after eleven minutes missed. the visitors advantage with

thirty three minutes on the german international side for the. spartans after good work on the outside from the brazilian. didn't give up the fight and solitary strike for minutes from the industrious sergio making it to one it was a case of too light rail say five points adrift of a relegation battle happening over the weekend. in town to take on sporting the clash a real six point survival appreciation for both. and was a home. greatest eventually finding his home team in thirty minutes well mary did just about everything right off to except get the ball over one mil sporting they're up to fifteen. more and more likely to drop. all right that brings us to i saw. the last remaining semi final spot on offer in the cage shell the men from my. guard to get another close run thing and scheme

seven is. in the first. shot registered on target change in the second the. minutes on the deal was sealed in the. empty net goal right before the. so we go where it seems novak djokovic simply forgotten how to lose the serb seeing off world number one raw feel the towel in the indian wells final on sunday it was may york is finest he started the better though taking you're going seventy six changed. to full control after not the twenty three rule wrapping up the second set six three before allowing just two games and decider gets the thing in a row and try to eleven took which is overall record non-printing to twenty consecutive victories including australia open glory at the start of the year is

also a place roger federer beats in the semifinals here we're going to meet the world right. yeah i mean it's been a dream start i don't know how to describe it really keeps on getting better. i'm definitely feeling great on the court playing today you know i'm one of the best player in the world and you know i mean it was very close match and that's what i expected him for the first set and a half he was the better player i was just you know fortunate through to make or break him hold it second serve second set and from there woman from there i want moment on i felt like i'm going better. no surprises in the women's tournaments where the top ranked carline wozniacki was too good for marion bartoli although she did need three sets to do the business again with a blistering start taking the first set six games to one but fifteen seaports really was not to be denied soon see the french woman five seconds he thought he

wasn't happy living up for number one billing by winning the decider six three and saving her second title season in the us. open just the gulf for lightning on sunday forced the leaders at the sicilian open to pay an extra morning session on monday rafael is the man holding his nerve after the restarts to win or goal tournaments by a single shot the frenchman also held a slender one stroke advantage over. any wall up the twelfth play got back underway but well quickly to level to set up an intriguing finish despite an excellent approach shot by while juggling was solid with our own in hands to lead the thirty six there were two shots to secure the win and he made no mistake to finish at twelve under par with wall just behind jacqueline whose last win came at the asian open in all seven vaulting right back into the world psych one hundred with victory . i'm not watching for the families set to light up the cricket world cup tournament favorites indian are gearing up for

a class for reigning champions astraea after beating the west indies on sunday batting for stuff for winning the toss india was shocked when a legend sachin tendulkar told just two runs to robbie. the whole stuff back on track not long afterwards though thanks to a brilliant showing from you but i see the left on the bottom having made the world of the century and something less big sixes india venture people will die for two hundred sixty it's. for. the windies me to come from south of there and use their opener on subsequent devon smith sitting six year old singing all the way to eighty one runs wickets fell thick and fast though and when brought in a rush so i hope the rest of the sport is that run full team without the runs too much to ask the india winning by eighty runs three in a row champions australia. should be quite a class casey stoner has settled in the savile fosse's and motor g.p.

he is truly an motoring from pole to win the opening race of the season and kids are fighting performance from the money switch from the caddie on this season he'll seven world champion brushed aside by teammates i feel so soon after the starts puts me in with he the spotlight leeds stoner coming the field with danny bruce and forget the rain so taking the lure you place a seven time chum fell into rossi on the able to challenge the trio finishing sevens with his need to compete on a day when accidents were unfortunately parked for. everything with homicide far is just plain amazing i mean we're not going to bike over the pre-season with my plates and downs and getting more and more coffee with the bike and this way can you know if we're just going any stronger and stronger as a way can win on a. and for the ratio nothing really changed the bike was still fantastic and i had a great feeling with it. and finally the thirty sixth annual muscles saber

tournaments i place in the russian capital this weekend the competitions important growing ahead of the twenty twelve london olympic games as constantine but top off now reports. the traditional moscow saber is the last tournament before the start of qualifying for the twenty twelfth olympic games the brushy is rising and that's why the world's best dancers the other day in the russian capital to engage their sabers and go for glory the final round presented lots of eye catching counters in the man's team event throughout the entire day squads from across the globe food for a podium place in the battle for third sport bella roos faced powerhouse italy it's what tight the belorussian stake in our league before squad had zero made it all square but their opponents had enough patients and no shortage of skill to end the fight in their favor. thankfully we succeeded the italians are tough opponents and we usually share victories this time we won and i'm very pleased with that little

victory will give us hearts meanwhile in the final the hosts meant germany russia had never won it in competition our home ground and this time around they were determined to book that right the russians dominating from the off showing an extended repertoire of moves and high speed of saber a fancy and in truth they look like champions well before the end russia taking a well deserved victory forty five thirty. four the germans were more tired and we sure that we possess great injuries however the team performed even better than i imagined i thought the margin wouldn't be that great a lot of germany have progressed very quickly down the years and it became hard to compete with the home ground definitely help us this time. next year in moscow see will be lost competition before the games in london and that will make the tournament crucial in terms of qualifying for world sport's biggest tournament because they are part of our team. and that is where we have to leave the sport for

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