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in japan r.t. discovers radiation levels and exceeding the legal limit even outside the exclusion zone surrounding the stricken fukushima daiichi nuclear plant. others away from reactor number one in particular city radiation levels are much higher than already believed it to be three. and coming up we have all the details. colonel gadhafi pledges he'll never leave libya as he faces off against a chess grandmaster in the devastated capital tripoli meanwhile nato steps up its offensive end eclairs it's expanding operations against libya's government but a fact finding mission on the ground is questioning the alliances methods. that were patients there who had that look like they came from a very specialized weapons and so the issue of the exactly what weapons are being

used here is also of great importance to the pentagon says it can't find six point six billion dollars of its money meant for iraq reconstruction even after a lengthy investigation. six am in moscow i'm good to have you with us here on r t our top story a highly toxic radioactive material has been detected in groundwater in seawater samples near the japan's fukushima daiichi nuclear plant the element strong has been found in concentrations two hundred times the safety limit that could lead to bone 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 or teens sean thomas has more from fukushima city. here we're eighty kilometers away

and the radiation levels in this area in 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 that's plant number one where a lot of that radiation. when eating from the winds are bringing that radiation in to shima city and the rain and the 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 dosage so. very very dangerous levels and so scientists so that we're 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 to the can contaminate the soil right now. and as you can see the two

gentlemen aren't wearing any protective clothing clothing but 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. filter for nuclear ready active material and. are drawn to grassy places when they go to those areas they could 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 these hot spots if you will where the radiation is just off

the charts right now active particles from the fukushima plant have already reached american shores and we'll be seeing genetic mutations in marine life with any year according to arnold gundersen an energy advisor at fairwinds associates corporation specializing in environmental and nuclear safety. well we're already seeing hot particles in tokyo particle means or radioactive particles really small thinner than a damp under your hair in tokyo and all throughout the fukushima prefecture and interestingly we're also seeing i'm on the west coast of the united states so airborne radiation it lodges in your lungs or your g.i. tract 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 tuna in the salmon. because this will work its way up the food chain i think you'll see more and more radiation being detected in the top of the food chain fish as well that woods hole prominent research institute has said that the

pacific ocean now is ten times more contaminated then was the the ocean well the seas near chernobyl at the peak of the accident so the oceans are worse now than after chernobyl the nuclear crisis has also sent a shock waves through the japanese motor industry and speculation contaminated vehicles could be heading out on to the world's car market potential buyers are now thinking twice before making their way to japanese auto show rooms as artie's alexei or chef ski reports from odessa. oh has been concept lighting a change of hardcore for months a fan of japanese vehicles she wanted to upgrade her off roader to when you were model but her car dealing friend said it was not the right time but the us could also yeah i was told privately that all new japanese cars are radioactive because of the fukushima disaster the shipment was supposedly blocked by the authorities at

adesa harbor but unofficial dealers bribed them and got those cars on to the streets officials at the poor left of our question whether there had been any contaminated course here after the japanese fallout these off roaders worship then before the fukushima disaster in japan and even they were checked for radiation or for reduced claim there's absolutely no chance of contaminated go of making their way onto the ukrainian territory is that these guys arrived 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 double check all vehicles for any biological threat. however ecologists say these checks may not be enough to determine radiation boeing is a radioactive particles are very small and all around the vehicle they can be found in fields just radiators inside small parts that's why it's very difficult to detect them with regular guy get conscious of the disposal of the customs units

which 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 this. 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 making industrial pipes and ukraine is known as. one of the leaders in my production of radioactive particles may be small but are still very dangerous a person subjected to them for a lengthy period can experience various lung diseases and even cancer so use the temptation to buy a new gemini's car is too hard to resist experts advise turning to professionals to check whether it is say look see or sense to see it wasn't from

a just and in ukraine. you're watching r t coming to you live from moscow here's what we have for you still ahead this hour with the media craze in the united states surrounding a congressman's sex scandal questions are being raised over whether news outlets may be focusing too much on. these people the russian man left with permanent disability when a u.s. consul general agility ran him down in a russian city of lot of austar more on that later. but first germany in the united arab emirates are the latest countries are to recognize the rebel leadership as the sole representatives of the libyan people this comes as the u.s. steps up pressure on countries to reject the government of colonel gadhafi the opposition is also reporting significant progress seizing two western mountains cities after months of being under siege almost one hundred pro khadafi forces were killed in the fighting with insurgents seizing military hardware meanwhile in the capital tripoli over a chess game with the president of the world chess federation colonel gadhafi

announced he had no intention of stepping down despite nato's readiness to ratchet up military operations. a former u.s. congresswoman and presidential candidate cynthia mckinney is on a fact finding mission to libya to see how tripoli is dealing with the constant nato bombardment she claims depleted uranium bombs could have been used there i understood that what i was hearing from the u.s. press was laden with propaganda of course we know that the pentagon has something called perception management and so they are in the business. this of utilizing the mighty wurlitzer which is the they're the propaganda and they do use that to affect the way people think about what they're doing and that's exactly what has been happening here and maybe with nato and so i thought i would come here with a delegation of journalists from across the united states including one journalist

also from south africa so that we could understand the truth and then tell the truth to the people yesterday a university was hit al fatah university which was formerly known as nasser university to our tour at that university were hit and i had the opportunity to speak with the dean of the political science department and he was literally shaking with anger he was so angry at what had happened to his campus to his university and i visited. hospital there was one patient who could matt tell his story because he was still in shock there were patients there. that looked like they came from very specialized weapons and so the issue of exactly what weapons are being used here is also of great importance and i was able to speak with a person in the united states who is a depleted uranium specialist

a former geophysicist at. lawrence livermore a laboratory and she told me that if there was a metallic taste of the dust in our mal's then more than likely it was depleted uranium saw i did a brief survey of those with me because one day there were eighty nine blasts and yes the response of i gad was that there was a metallic taste. the pentagon has recently been forced to admit it doesn't know where six point six billion u.s. dollars scheduled for iraq reconstruction of god the money was supposed to be a part of the massive restructuring program after the war a former bush administration official and author of the book america's failure in iraq michael o'brien says the funds went missing under general petraeus as watch

all of this stuff was going on while david petraeus was the commander of the multinational security transition command in iraq four men sticky in zero four and zero five and this is the same period of time that one hundred ninety thousand a k forty seven zero nine millimeter pistol pistols purchased by the us government for the iraqi army national police disappeared i also want to say that i have a personal friend i will mention his name who was a very senior u.s. american finance and budget official during this period of time and he told me that when david petraeus was there there was no accountability at all for american money and that david petraeus continued to spend the iraqi money six months after the c.p.a. the coalition provisional authority had been shut down in june of zero four. political analyst kyung from voice of russia radio believes iraq has

a legal right to the money but would say they probably have some legal claim to that money and a legitimate claim to go to court the u.s. has already said that it took those the money from the oil from those from the oil fields they've already taken that money they seized it in the sanctions against . hussein's iraq so the money is legitimately the iraqis the question is again if the u.s. government can't find the money they'll have to come up with it some way so my feeling is that. they do have some claim to this money some legal claim and it's going to take some time to want to the courts which records they choose to go through probably international courts to get this money back now to some other stories making headlines across the globe italian and nuclear activists have cause for celebration after a referendum on the government's plan to revive nuclear energy was thrown out the decision to reopen the country's atomic plants after a twenty year shutdown caused public outrage especially in a week in the wake of the fukushima disaster many countries have recently

reconsider their policies with germany pledging to drop its atomic program by two thousand and twenty two. troops loyal to syrian president assad are pushing rebel forces farther from the northern town of jews are all sugar after earlier taking full control of the area hundreds of civilians are now i gather at syria's border with turkey ready to leave the country according to human rights groups at least thirteen hundred people have been killed since the beginning of the crackdown in in mid march with ten thousand having already fled the country. pressure is growing on a married congressman to resign following the so-called sexting case that's dominated the u.s. headlines for a couple of weeks now president obama said if he was in the same position as representative anthony weiner he would step down because it's a distraction police have now closed their investigation into weiner who had tweeted a racy photos of himself triggering a media storm that overshadowed world news including war in libya and violence in

syria are he's guy takes a look. but he doesn't know we the american media can't get enough of anthony we nursed crotch shot the married u.s. congressman had sent this lewd photo to a young woman via twitter and the story made a perfect effect of the daniel thing with a shameless cover up this is a twitter hoax of prank that was done on the victim of this poor girls the victim of a subsequent embarrassing 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 realized i posted to twitter i panicked i took it down and said that i had been hacked and of course it tears will apology i am deeply sorry for the pain this is caused by wife. and our family. it seemed dance any winners in this question overshadowed all other news in america winners winner if we are the winner wiener is this you we dated for a few months like almost ten years ago to the current point even comedians for whom

the congressman's crotch shot has become a bottomless source of inspiration for how he's cracked it american history it can be i think your stories. 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 lascivious 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 building blocks the media pressure is so high that it has become a trend in america to make deeply personal apologies on camera and everybody who has been hurt. you know the feel. the same goes for celebrities like tiger woods who extramarital affairs make headlines for months i am deeply sorry for my irresponsible and selfish behavior i engaged in the

apologies seem to fuel the gossip in the street even more when politicians stage and i do use this word stage these apology kind of. 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 and don't take charlie sheen cielo hand with our analyst miles courts and now we marry the least this endless and all these handles have to do with private matters but they feel they knew seen by me to such an extent that many hands by the same as they were placed actually means in america i'm going to check our reporting from washington r.t. . and check out our web site r t dot com for plenty more stories here's a little of what's online for you right now iran of poison new air defense system

with supersonic missiles capable of hitting a target within one hundred fifty kilometer radius plus russia's dream of producing its own hybrid cars a step closer with the opening of a specialized new plant experts say this segment of the market could become the sixth largest in the world by twenty twenty all that and more click away at our team. despite being confined to a wheelchair for more than a decade it hasn't held back one determined russian man he covered eleven thousand kilometers across the country on a mobility scooter drawing attention to the plight of the disabled are pushed covert reports. alexander's top 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 those of us stuck eligible drunk and that's where the problems began as a diplomat and merican douglas can't could claim immunity officials back in washington refused to waive his rights so alexander had no chance of getting redress this was all 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 he has 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 abortion the only one 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 out that. despite all the obstacles he'd be right to the heart of washoe many people along the way asked to go to the kremlin and 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 but it's the people in power in washington who really need to listen and act diary bush r.t. moscow. says our reserves are on our tail be back with a summary in about ten minutes stay with us here on r.t. .

thank you very much miss ashley you said the heart of what you're doing maybe is to resolve conflict why was the e.u. not asked to mediate in libya well i think the u.n. is playing exactly the role that it should play and. the u.n. special envoy is as you know frequently in tripoli and benghazi is working with the people of libya but also for the international partners role has been very much to support him and to work with the african union with the arab league with the organization of islamic conference and with our partners like russia and turkey to think about how we move forward and conflict and some people start to think about the country of the future on

a visit to bin guys in may you said that you had in mind people who would be leading into the future what gives you the ground to say that what i said was that i've met people who clearly had at their heart they future of libya people who are thinking about the kind of what the needs to be done reconstruction getting the economy moving again the support they're going to the board of management reform of the police to be people who will be part of the big dialogue that used to take place what the new government of libya looks like it's the people of libya to decide but here are people who despite all of the troubles despite the difficulties are really trying to think about through and i pay tribute to them for. during the search and they have been discussions about the possibility that gadhafi could go but it's an if it's a large if and one of the big challenges and questions is how to make sure that for the people of libya the way in which he goes on the sure of that departure

is a fundamental part of moving forward that's for them to decide in conjunction as i said with the role of the u.n. special envoy at what stage will be you expect nato to cease fire in libya well nato has been in discussion of course about its future role and i was at nato this week to discuss the role of the european union in our humanitarian aid in our support for the people on the ground and in opening the office which i did recently in bengal the role of the forces of nato is determined by the security council resolution and the job is to protect civilians so until there is clear determination evidence the civilians are say they will have to stay there and that's again tied up to what happens with kind of gadhafi and his decision to allow his country to move forward in the way that clear the people want the european council said that the russian presidential meditator to libya is a focal point for

a political transition there what statins does the e.u. court mr maher gallop well what we've been saying to president medvedev and to form and so love for office is so important that russia is able to play its part in trying to find a solution so the role of the mediator for russia is to work alongside others who are busy trying to find a way through i think the significant element of this is making sure that it's also linked back to the u.n. so we have confidence in our communications between different people but it's very good to see russia engage it's very good to see it being d.h. or trying to help to get as you said you consider an aged. together as an inappropriate response to the plight of the people there want to ease and appropriate response in your opinion we're very consistent in saying what needs to happen is that the israelis need to open the borders with guards or and the love 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 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 jobs eight percent of 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 that could actually sell and support its own economy but the israeli settlement building continues in the west bank despite the position of the european union what more can be done well we're concerned about that we've always said that settlements are illegal under international law we've made that clear we do believe that we have to try and get back to talks same points of the core church

in which russia plays a big part of the hope of a meeting soon to try and lay some of the groundwork that would enable the parties to come back to talks because in the end that's going to be the solution miss ashton you were in belgrade when roskam luggage was arrested and shortly before that you announced an extra billion euro was available for partners under the neighborhood policy what that a coincidence you were in belgrade when radical ladish was arrested yes it was a coincidence i had the privilege of talking with. the president and with the deputy prime minister and gauged in the action although i never doubted the president was very key. to try and find a law to see justice. i think that the expectation they were finding on that particular day was not was not there it was good to be that it was good to be able to congratulate the authorities and to see how people reacted to that across the

world of being a real indication of closure but also of saying that no matter how long it takes justice will be done recession thank you for taking time for this interview we very much appreciate my pleasure. the official. called touch from the. life on the go. video on demand.

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