away from the reactor number one in. radiation levels are much higher for dean. coming up we have all the details. for a sense radioactive ripples far beyond the exclusion zone as news emerges of a loophole in one contaminated japanese cars onto the european market. pro palestinian sentiment spreads across europe as activists demand authorities stop ignoring the israeli occupation of the west bank and call for a boycott of goods from illegal settlements. and with the media craze in america

flaring around sex related scandal involving a senator questions are being raised about whether news outlets are turning into course it will. international news and comment live from a studio here in central moscow this is. a highly toxic radioactive material has been detected in groundwater in seawater samples near the fukushima nuclear facility in japan the elements strontium has been found in concentrations two hundred times over the safety limit and can cause cancer and leukemia meanwhile japan's health and labor ministry says the number of workers exposed to dangerous levels of radiation has risen to eight forty sean thomas has been that because she was city to measure radiation levels there and this is what he discovered. here we are eighty kilometers away and the radiation levels in this area many many places

in many instances are much. too close because if you look at a map of where fukushima city is in relation to the actual nuclear facility best plant number one where a lot of bad radiation. but ending from that the winds are bringing that radiation into fukushima and cheema city and the rain and wind is blowing the radiation in this direction so we were at a spot where the radiation levels were one thousand times what is considered to be a safe dose or so. very very dangerous levels and so scientists who that we are working with today from different universities are working together on projects to try to figure out ways to use a simple methods to actually clean that radiation up and these guys actually. are working at the can't contaminate the foil right now. and as you can see the two

gentlemen aren't wearing any protective clothing clothing for the scientists are so one of the concerns is that you can actually have one spot which is only thirty times in the accepted normal levels and then you go to another spot which is just a metre away and it can jump to five hundred to a thousand times depending on where rain water and mud have collected one of the concerns of course is that grass is a concern to filter for nuclear a ready active material and. draw into brashly places when they go to those areas they can actually be absorbing more radiation from the grasses well so what's interesting is this area that we're in right now is considered a safe area it is not considered a mandatory evacuation area but authorities are looking into to see whether it should be considered evacuation area where at least hotspots within the city should be evacuated because of the that was a hot spot if you will where the radiation is just the charts. radioactive particles from the fukushima nuclear power plant have already reached american

shores and we'll be seeing genetic mutations in marine life within a year that's according to an organization an energy advisor fairwinds associates a corporation specializing in environmental and nuclear safety well we're already seeing articles in tokyo how particle these are radioactive particles really small better than that they are under your hair in tokyo and all throughout the fukushima prefecture an interesting way we're also seeing them on the west coast of the united states so airborne radiation it lodges in your lines your shii track is certainly in japan and on the west coast the the oceans are still becoming more or contaminated not less and i think over the next year or so you'll see the big fish that you learn in the salmon. because this will work its way up the food chain and i think you'll see more and more radiation being detected in the top of the food chain fish as well. that would whole from

a research institute has said that the pacific ocean now is ten times more contaminated then was the the ocean and. seas near chernobyl at the peak of the action so the oceans are worse now than ever. oh goodness i'm talking to be a little earlier here not in the focus human nuclear crisis has also sent shock waves through the japanese motor industry and its speculation that contaminated vehicles could be heading out to the world's kanaka and potential buyers are now thinking twice before making their way to japanese auto show rooms as artie's alexi had a chef he reports. has been concept lighting a change of her car for months a fan of japanese vehicles she wanted to upgrade her old fraud or two when you were model but her car dealing friend said it was not the right time stronger but the risk also yet i was told privately that all new japanese cars are radioactive because of the fukushima disaster this shipment was supposedly blocked by the

authorities at adesa harbor but unofficial dealers bribe them and those cars on to the streets officials at the port left off our question whether there had been any contaminated course here after the japanese fallout these off roaders worship in before the fukushima disaster in japan in even they were checked for radiation or verities claim there's absolutely no chance of contaminated we both making their way onto the territory these currents arrive to us transiting through greek and turkish ports if anything was wrong it would have been spotted there in the first place but it was still there to check all vehicles for any biological threat. however ecologists say these checks may not be enough to determine radiation growing is that right radioactive particles are very small and. around the vehicle they can be found in filters radiators inside small plants that's why it's very

difficult to detect them with regular geiger counters at the disposal of the customs unit's experts say the sale of contaminated steel is not something new for ukraine these shorts were filmed inside the chernobyl exclusion zone several years ago scavengers stealing contaminated radiators from the ghost town of one costs around twenty dollars on the black market tens of thousands have been removed from the zone. these contaminated metal can be recycled and used for a new thing from rails to vehicles without losing its radioactivity but usually it's used for make an industrial pipes and ukraine is known as. one of the leaders in production radioactive particles may be small but are still gravely dangerous a person subjected to them for a lengthy period can experience various long diseases and even cancer so yes the temptation to buy a new japanese car is too hard to resist experts advise turning to professionals to check whether it is safe and let's see russian ascii art see reporting from i just

and each of us in ukraine. nuclear power plant in ukraine was the scene of the world's worst nuclear accident but many fear that the crisis at fukushima may super supportive you can check out the ones prosperous soviet city of the infamous atomic facility to find out how it looks now a special report marking the twenty fifth anniversary of the two noble disaster is available on our web site r.t. dot com in the documentary section. europe is seeing a surge in anti israeli sentiment with a growing clamor for governments to stop turning a blind eye to the occupation of palestinian land i didn't say they want actions not words and demanding an embargo on exports from illegal settlements but as daniel bushell reports politicians are remaining tight lipped on the issue. rage against israel thousands call for the boycott of his really good over its continued expansion on palestinian land a jewish demonstrator says enough is enough when american leaders do nothing the

e.u. does nothing the repeated un resolutions have ruled israeli settlements illegal. activists want the european union to war the main exports of the occupied territories flowers and fruits they formed human barricades it's a use a ploy depose stopping goods getting through of will from the get israel's carmel brand market settlement produce and pockets the profits but all she pined for says her moving their citizens are committing war crimes under the geneva convention public pressure is bearing fruit italy's biggest grocer co-ops and food grown in the occupied territories the world's largest security firm g four s. has stopped work with these really check points on the west bank admitting it breached human rights shareholders fourth belgium's dexia bank to sell its israel

arm over a million euro loans to settlements activists next target is the. links between thirty and jerusalem e.u. transport giant veolia protesters are also seeking to file charges on the international law against israel over its construction of settlements which the authorities are investigating police will pass these complaints on to the courts judges must rule if firms who buy food from occupied palestinian land are complicit in war crimes irish n.e.p. paul murphy will join cause of the biggest yet so breeze awareness of the situation and nine activists were killed by israeli commandos when a similar operation was stopped in international waters last year the move. he feels things have got so bad he's ready to risk his life hopefully people and kills this time as they were last time the israeli military forces. that

brings the world's attention to this issue such moves say experts force politicians and business to act public opinion change your mind before you were thinking that israel was grabbed by the police today. never really capacity to challenge and international institution europe institution and the un and also. the last time such a campaign was mobilized internationally was against the south african apartheid regime israel may have powerful allies but a position in europe to its policies is growing to. see proselytize. israel's continued blockade of gaza is not only damaging to palestinians but also disastrous for israel itself that's according to the e.u. high representative for foreign affairs exclusive interview with baroness catherine ashton coming your way later this hour but first here's a preview. we're very consistent in saying what needs to happen is that israel is

need to open the borders with guards there and allow people and goods to move freely now i recognize the importance of the security situation for israel we've always done that but it seems to me a position that's not tenable where you have the inability to get the economy moving and one of the things i've been saying to the israelis for some time is it's in their interest to see economic growth and development and dolls are lots of small businesses you know that could really do well lots of people who want your old age center people in gaza received today so many young people who don't have a future and part of the answer to that part of making sure that we have security is giving them that future and that means allowing in and out the products the goods were girls or could actually. and support its own economy.

he may be faced by an ongoing rebellion an increasingly destructive nato bombing campaign and worldwide condemnation but colonel gadhafi has failed he will stay in libya to the bitter end his remarks came a rigged game of chess with the visiting president of the world chess federation can see an illusion of the chess master expresses shock at the scale of destruction in the capital tripoli is coming in just hours before not a good eight defected to britain it was also declared his intent to experiment or operations in the country get him off the libyan government forces to the port city of zawiyah from the rebels world to discuss gadhafi is all latest act of defiance in the face of overwhelming odds are now joined by dr agent perhaps at the university of kent this. joining us from cambridge thanks very much for being with us here on r.t. you know it's notable helper that to gadhafi seems to be at the moment playing chess and giving interviews all with an air of somewhat aloofness now how is he remaining so calm especially when other arab leaders crumbled so quickly in similar

circumstances well i think to understand the difference we have to realize that in egypt it was of course the powerful army that pushed out president mubarak and that hasn't yet happened in libya but the factions are showing that gadhafi support within the regime is clearly declining i think the other reason why he seems so carl is because i think he does suffer from dangers delusions he does think of themselves as somehow untouchable and it's very clear that in the end all dictators all autocrats all tyrants sooner or later. are removed by by their own people or somehow group by outside forces very few actually survive until they have sort of physical death in all the age and i think the same will happen we could after your article be betrayed or some attack by nato will be successful in either injuring him or indeed in killing him but if he is defiance

not perhaps strengthened by the fact that nato has taken so long over this mission already stretched to its resources saying that it's crews are tired and they are indeed going to have to continue with this but some of the crews are exhausted i mean in some ways the limit of what airpower can achieve has been coming been exhausted itself so perhaps these companies. he's clearly hoping that they'll be some kind of repeat of the nine hundred ninety nine scenario where nato bombed for seventy eight days and nothing much changed on the ground except for a lot of destruction and of course it's usually the civilian population that suffers the effects of destruction not the leadership and of course what happened of course was the ground troops made all the difference ground troops finally removed troops from kosovo we're not going to see ground troops in libya but we might be seen as more intelligence on the ground more infiltration of his regime by rebels or indeed by foreign intelligence and then perhaps

a crucial strike to finally we can get our fear and remove him but it is clear at the moment the nature of strategy isn't fully working that's been apparent for many weeks now what about the latest developments concerning germany now recognizing the rebels how significant is that. it's a belated move really but at least one shows that the german government realized its previous stance of just sitting on the fence and somehow abstaining isn't really working i mean the russian president. steyn for for reasons that we we know we need to do a domestic politics but he clearly didn't think he had much legitimacy and that's what he said at the summit of the g. eight germany's move i think is belated but it's there for you welcome what about the situation in syria britain france and becoming more vocal about the situation there something that russia and china a very concerned about obviously russia and china have been concerned about what's been going on in libya concerning the nato intervention there but do you think russia and china would be justified in in blocking any u.n.

security council resolution over syria. no i don't thing a blanket veto of any kind of resolution is ever justified because you have to look at the resolution and see what it says i think a carefully crafted resolution could be helpful because quite what it could signal to assad is that basically he's got a final chance by the he relents and stops repression in which case there might be some way of a political solution that may even keep him in power certainly his regime in power or elles with further oppression this is going to be intolerable and over time the pressure will be immense for him to resign even from his own supporters within the regime so i do think both russia and china would be well advised to look at resolution if of course the resolution promises an intervention which nato can't deliver that would be foolish and russia and china would be justified in perhaps blocking this but it all depends on the content we haven't seen the draft resolution passed the public so the chinese and russian diplomats i think they

should consider it perhaps a lecture in politics the university of kent thanks very much indeed for your time here on r.t. to talk to you thank you thank you. well police in the u.s. have closed an investigation into the so-called sexting case that's nominated national headlines for over two weeks and tweeted a recent photo of himself triggering a media rush to overshadow world news including the war in libya and violence in syria and he's going to look at where priorities lie in the american media. but he doesn't know if the american media can't get enough of anthony weiner's crotch shot the married u.s. congressman had sent this new photo to a young woman the twitter and the story made it perfectly sex scandal with a shameless cover up this is a twitter hoax a prank that was done i'm the victim of a poor girl's the victim of a subsequent embarrassing come fashion last friday night i tweeted

a photograph of myself that i intended to send as a direct message as part of a joke to a woman in seattle once i realize i posted to twitter i panicked i took it down and said that i had been hacked and of course a careful apology and deeply sorry for the pain this is caused. in our family it seemed anthony weiner's indiscretion overshadowed all other news in america we know as we enter it we are the winner is this you we dated for a few months like almost ten years ago to the point even comedians for whom the congressman's crotch shot has become a bottomless source of inspiration point how distracted american news media can be . and your stories. that have been blocked by this recent scandal on a more serious note many people think the only way to get ratings this is to lead and constantly churn and cover these types of the serious stories that really don't

have any bearing on people's lives whether or not it's a private issue that has affected nobody but the people involved the media pressure is so high that it has become a trend in america to make equally personal apologies on camera and everybody who has been. you know. the same goes for celebrities like tiger woods' extramarital affairs made headlines for months i am deeply sorry for my irresponsible and selfish behavior i engaged in the apologies seemed to fuel the gossip industry even more when politicians stage and i do use this word stage these apology kind of sessions they are very likely responding to their public relations. advisors their lawyers etc etc i mean in the networks american media companies love it because again it

generates even more scandal american television they've got spin and don't take charlie feeling feel on hand with their analyst miles courts and now we're at the least this endless and all of these scandals have to do with private matters but the bill they knew seemed heartening to such an extent that many hats either got sick as were placed actual names in america i'm going to check our reporting from washington r.t. . when we get more analysis on the latest news developments by logging on to our web page that's all. here's a quick look at what's there for. americans are hearing voices with new radio studios with a voice of russia opening up in washington new york also online. the u.s. is creating to understand internet and cell phone networks inside other countries you can find out why. also for any of all videos you can go to free video dot com and download.

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of the. blokes breaks over for one hundred dollar bills whether they remember having read it as some years ago but they were actually gone the socks that they were field with a hundred dollar bills like if you will be like in your pocket and you threw it in the bag and then they took it by plane to iraq so you know you can imagine the picture anybody could just stick their hand into it. and they would remove the money i mean i'm just so making these the potential is there ok. apart from petty theft as it were people putting their hands in the bags if this money is unaccounted for presumably stolen where has the vast sum and where do you think it could have gone to well my suspicion least he would have ended up in the pocket of corrupt iraqi officials who thought i mean we saw your point you need to get

past amounts of money from the united states money that has the reports mention and appropriately these three there were no financial controls once they got into iraq and. then u.s. contract tense i think it was me accused of being corrupt and having a lot more agent of course there are reports yes that maybe yes there were contractors and i have obtained tens of millions of dollars bucks in graft. or of course it seems that we all the thing i was thinking for instance in the report i think from that we can leaks the saudi gober been to this is just an example got the angry and stopped providing funding to the game in germany government. because all the money for development both for human yemen was and the. east bank

account so. i wouldn't be surprised. that should have been used in development reconstruction we all know the three will be sure of the sewage system you know the breakdown of electric and three city services so if the infrastructure you clearly p.c. in iraq why are you with so much more the situation it's war stories and you see it's not there hasn't changed since the invasion well perhaps an explanation you know a little early you mention the finger of blame pointed towards iraqi officials but of course the iraqi officials now are they being threatened now go to court to reclaim the money and they say that money came from iraqi oil sales seized iraqi assets and surplus funds from the united nations all for food program they've got a point haven't they do you think they could actually get their money back on that basis well apparently there was some agreement to agreement to sign you up with all some for but the united states was responsible for don't need to protect it in the one that you mention you know for the food for food program etc.

since. that would give the right piece to claim that the more you go six point six billion if of course the united states in accordance to the agreement is responsible for its safety just needs some accounted for in the united states what's responsible for controlling its distribution we don't know here in washington what has been put in of course there is a case for the right police. the courts will have to decide of course i suppose it's very embarrassing for the us authorities to just finally how will they placate a us taxpayer this is not the sort of news the us taxpayer wants to hear in these economic times in america as it. is no of course especially when there is so much needed home. when these small me it was starts me are sworn in that should have their being employed for other purposes and in the hands so for corrupt officials

whether there were us contracts or where they were iraqis or who knows little of wills well yes i what life will have to leave it there we're running out of time now thanks very much and a few times joining us live on the web cam in washington thank you you thank. but despite being a fighter will cheer for more than a decade that has held back when the term in russian is covered eleven thousand kilometers right across russia on the abilities he's drawing attention to the plight of disabled people are pushed over has been senator. alexander stubb speed is not much more than walking pace it's been more than a decade since the accident which put him in a wheelchair driving the other car was america's consul general in the u.s. stock allegedly drunk and that's where the problems began as a diplomat american dog was canned could claim immunity officials back in washington refused to waive his rights so alexander had no chance of getting redress this recall that he walked away scot free but i will keep on seeking

justice. alexander tells me he's been fighting for compensation ever since to pay for his specialist care and medical expenses so long after the original accident it's important to him to keep his case in the public eye his just finished and marathon of marathon proportions riding his electric buggy eleven thousand kilometers from his home to moscow and it's been a journey of discovery the i wish you knew and i was most surprised by the decency and generosity of our people i never expected such help just imagine every set of stairs demands for people to get me up that. despite all the obstacles he waited for so many people along the way i asked to go to the kremlin tell them how we live but alexander is not the complete inclined to strongly believes that no matter what the odds everyone's destiny is in their own hands the people he's met have certainly heard his call where is that people in power in washington who really

need to listen and act dare you pushed over r t moscow. is up to that woman i'll be back to recap our main news stories for in just a few moments from now stay with us live here in moscow. for the full story we've got it from. the biggest issues get the human voice.