during its twenty years about a thousand times more than what is new acceptable level of a little. but in order to claim that fukushima is truly safe from leaking radiation the japanese government has had to be creative with the numbers but the government did ease de change the revolution quantum level stand at the levels from one. minute. to twenty minutes even twenty times. the. standards before the accident and now. they raise the. the standard so that they can say it's safe but actually the standard house changed the new higher levels mean that fukushima can be classed as being outside of the exclusion zone some say that evacuating the city would be simply impractical given the huge numbers of people affected to try and mitigate the circumstances to some

degree a group of scientists have teamed up to find a simple ways to reduce the radiation levels. we're just trying to do a pilot project and do d.d. contamination. by ourselves and we are not using our special equipment we just use normal child. scoops. just because the top soil is a small effort to bring some security to a community facing a scary and uncertain future in fukushima city sean thomas r.t. . well despite concerns over japan's government hushing up the dangers the number two nuclear official in the country thinks the issue is simply too complicated for the general public the full exclusive interview with japan's nuclear industry spokesman is coming your way in twenty five minutes time here on our team. we have been publishing all the information we get eighty percent. is known by the

government but. it may be difficult for the ordinary people to understand and so i make. the score for that wouldn't it people. see. seventy percent. nato has admitted that civilians were killed in an air strike on a tripoli suburb on sunday get off the official say two babies were among the nine dead well it's the first time the alliance has conceded responsibility for civilian deaths although libya's health ministry claims more than eight hundred people have died in three months of air attacks are. reports now from the capital tripoli and you may find some of the images disturbing. mohammad heard his extended family used to be one of the biggest in the neighborhood and they table mean killed

five of them his father one of his brothers his sister and her own family mohammed shows us the picture of little jumana his niece taken on his mobile phone his days before he pulled her dead body from on the day. i woke up when i heard an explosion some stones a piece of the roof fell on me i ran immediately to see how my family is and many were dead my mother survived another brother is in a coma and we don't know when or if he will recover that had is that not three days we live in in this agreement district entry fully it's home to many hours income people most from one family this is just regular sitter quarter why does the populated built up area this is what used to be there had his house but three story buildings are reduced in ruins in just moments after being hit in a missile strike home are mohammed's brother who survived says they will never forgive or forget what nato has done to them destroying their lives and hems. they

should take responsibility for their wrongdoing and nato has responded with an apology. intended target during last night's airstrike in tripoli was a military missile site. however from our initial assessment of the facts it appears that one weapon did not strike the intended target due to a weapons systems failure although officials in tripoli claim more than eight hundred civilians have died in nato raids then nine people they say were killed in sunday's bombardment of the city have become the first civilian casualties officially acknowledged by the alliance only on saturday nato has also admitted another mistake in a strike this time on rebel forces neither live in oil port of brag or with the number of casualties not been disclosed we hold me to the do you hold mr cameron mr sarkozy is this going to scorn him mr obama may already. hear good

response about for the deaths of these innocent children innocent was unfair as an innocent fathers and mothers you cannot justify this attack would you name it wasn't. sunday's fatal error occurs in the rising concerns within nato about his operation in northern africa only eight out of its twenty eight members have joined the mission to protect civilians in libya which raises the question how many would support one to kill them in raif an option or r t tripoli. oh a civilian deaths in libya grow anger mounts among the taxpayers footing the bill for their military intervention the conflict is expected to cost one of its key players the u.k. hundreds of millions of pounds as artie's war effort reports the blow to britain's budget couldn't have come at a worse time. they're already calling it the billion pound

war it's calculated that if the war in libya goes on for six months it will cost the british taxpayer one point six billion dollars but that initial humanitarian mission is now get rid of gadhafi operation and that could take a lot longer assuming that their goal is to simply oust him from power one imagines this is not going to end until he. leaves office so this could potentially drag on for months more and as we've seen they've already extended the operation by another three months that's unlikely to be popular with the british public that government spending like a hawk already feel seeing services and jobs slashed even so downing street swore it is open and it's taking the lead in libya data gathered by britain's guardian newspaper from defense ministries and news reports shows that britain has flown twenty five percent of all sources in libya second only to the u.s. by the second week of may six thousand strike missions had been ordered blogger

daniel rennick says the u.k.'s likely to have weighed up the cost but with a warm wind blowing westwards from libyan rebels and us movements britain reckons a billion pounds is a pretty good investment it's about having control of north african resources particularly. where we made for the transitional council that seems to be very clear some bombs cost up to one and a half million dollars each and with the u.k. cutting defense spending analysts say they may not be replaced and when you're dealing with such big numbers small things make a big difference the euro for tight food cost maybe one hundred thousand pounds per hour to fly so small changes in the number of hours you estimate produce big changes a cost estimate for the operant. wars are always expensive but the costs back home. could prove harder to afford next in line to strike

a million public sector workers who are being asked to work more and get less the disruption to services could run in two weeks the commitment to continue in libya for however suggests a blank check at a time when. the deployment of apache helicopters doesn't appear to have given the tactical advantage it hoped for and every time a plane takes to the sky or drops a bomb the cost for britain and its beleaguered european neighbors. all moscow and washington both understand of a repeat of the quote libyan scenario in syria is unacceptable well that's the view of russian foreign minister sergey lavrov who has been commenting on the situation . do everything it can to prevent the libyan scenario syria to gather with the international community we can. to put the reforms into

practice as soon as possible and to call on the opposition not to ignore suggestions to discuss these reforms which is start negotiating them. it comes as syria's president bashar assad addresses the nation with this third major speech since some rest began in the country in mid march blamed the conflict on a foreign conspiracy and said peaceful protests have been infiltrated by. still the need for reform and said syrians need to deal with the situation as themselves the president also promised to expand an amnesty for political prisoners . and next hour our peter lavelle asked whether the international presence in libya and other african countries means a better life for the continent. but little things have gotten better in the past ten years you've seen inflation has come down average incomes have gone up the world bank did recently they're talking about roy's in the number of people who are

earning between two and four dollars a day hours for the world bank and just talk about you know the middle classes beginning with two dollars a day a pound a day have you tried living in the rubio of. these guys if you think this is the middle class is there must be. on some other planet i'm afraid. now every president wants to run for a second term but the final decision rests with the people that's according to russian president dmitri medvedev in an interview with london's financial times he said it's too early to say if he will stand for reelection next year but he made it clear that he and prime minister putin will not run against each other artes but that he has more from moscow. that's definitely the question that the russian president has been asked most frequently in the recent odds with the way they

decided to keep the suspense of the well off but if you don't the new leader especially one who walked past the president's seat has to be willing to run for reelection however it's not a question of whether he would make that decision for himself i suggest waiting a bit longer and keeping the intrigue. so the election suspense is still in place but even if they did did reveal some information about next year's election he did say that the first time that he will not be running with the regiment and the one that will go. for a place in office. it's hard for me to imagine we're putin and i both running for president of the same time for at least one reason that thing is we strictly speaking represent the same political force competition between us would bring harm to the golden tasks we've been working on for the past several years it wouldn't be good for russia and it wouldn't be good in this particular situation. worse no interview specifically no interview that is. taken by western media

source has gone by without the issue of the seat where c.e.o. will try to speak for a french president reiterated his position that that was his release should it happen not in any way be a danger to society like any russian citizen serving time that he has the right to an appeal which according to the president is what exactly was he is planning to file for an appeal which wasn't just matters of domestic policy that were touched on fire from the f.t. the ongoing conflict in the middle east specifically of course the us in libya and syria the russian president speaking quite harshly about the nato military intervention in libya it is said that basically a very good resolution. turned into a meaningless bit of paper with nato as a military intervention in libya and that precisely because of that the rest will

be passed on syria but the. serious matters of course that were discussed we do know that the russian president is very fond of his gadgets he's rarely see that guy and he did slip that he has a special on it that lets him monitor exactly what it is employees are doing and which of his tasks have already been fulfilled is a very useful thing i personally plan to check out the app store to see whether it's been specifically custom made for the president or whether it's available for the general public. or for that interview in full with the president medvedev just visit our website that's our dot com. e.u. finance ministers have failed to agree details for releasing the next trash of last year's a massive bailout for greece the decision was perspiring and until july for the condition that athens implemented fresh budget cuts fears of greece defaulting made a british banks hold back tense and really has a euro's from the lending market and

a former deputy speaker of the belgian parliament claims bailout cash intended to help were struggling economies is instead being pocketed by the wealthy. crises like these are considered big opportunities by big financial institutions it was showing the past and it is so today where's the money gone well i think you don't have to look for the money is going to financial institution to wealthy elites who are actually benefiting from this crisis bailouts what kind of bailout through for what purpose that is the question the business that we actually saw was look we give you all the stock spare money without any conditions so you can keep on going doing what you did that is not the kind of bailout that i see what all the social achievements of the last thirty years are put in jeopardy by these financial so-called financial reforms and the thing is this is a question about what is democracy and what is democracy for i think the mix shouldn't people not for financial institution it's as simple as that. now let's

look at some other world headlines this hour and in spain a protest against budget cuts are also taking place tens of thousands have marched through the streets of madrid and other major spanish cities in rallies against a sturdy measures social spending cuts and massive unemployment the economic crisis in the country has left more than a million families with no income and led to youth unemployment nearing fifty percent on monday groups all over spain will start a long march to the capital expressing their anger over the situation. washington has confirmed it is holding talks with the taliban defense secretary robert gates described the contact as quote very preliminary and continued military pressure is necessary well earlier the afghan president hamid karzai also confirmed to go see a shift with the taliban it comes as the u.s. prepares to begin withdrawing troops from his afghanistan next month. now

a mother's decision to use the internet instead of a doctor to help her dying baby has sent shock waves throughout russia and while the case provoked a public outcry growing numbers of people continued to turn their backs on official services due to a distrust of the public health care system. has the details. asio was an eagerly awaited baby adored by her mother and everyone around she was a lively newborn for three months when she became ill and died within a week doctors say had been hospitalized earlier she could have had a chance of survival however us his mother julia hesitated too long and she's now facing criminal charges for negligence. you have to understand we did want to avoid unnecessary medical intrusion but if we are not in a cult we care about our children's health and want only the best for them this is

julia's heartrending response in a t.v. show called let them talk on russia's first channel. which i see was the love of my life. losing her is the worst possible punishment i've learned my lesson to god is my listeners what happened was the scariest thing in my life in the program she was hounded as an irresponsible mother who watched her daughter die on line after her desperate post asking for help on the internet reached the wider public julius tragic story is just one among those who chose to give birth at home and resort to self treatment rather than trust official health care they may be a fraction of russian society but then number is increasing and doctors are alarmed . they're usually three reasons behind a woman's choice first is when the mother falls under the influence of an alternative group that makes business out of it delivering babies without a license the second group are those who prefer everything natural as it was before

hospitals and the third is the most unpleasant for us when a patient has a bad experience connected to a medical establishment. stories of medical maltreatment or even worse continue appearing in the russian media and unplanned amputation of a baby's limb and an alleged swab of a woman's healthy newborn for a disabled one are among the most recent cases those dark stories often have another side to them but they're scary enough to make young women dread any hospitals drugs and doctors. people who are afraid of clinical medicine have their reasons for that they're afraid of the complications they might get in maternity wards of unnecessary medical intrusion there's quite a large number of deaths and crippled lives. so veronica believed her mother when she told her doctors might harm her and her baby the idea of natural delivery at home sounded very convincing to me until my son and i nearly died in the birth i'm

lucky neither of us ended up in a grief the ronnie is one of those who opted for home birth with insistence of only a midwife a practice that is unregulated in russia and skates on legal thin ice making it open to abuse the running because midwives barely had any relevant training but took the money and never asked if the baby survived. despite the controversy over home birth everyone agrees that in today's russia if you want to minimize the risk giving birth in hospital is the answer but with mothers wanting more choice the system as it currently stands could do with a rethink after all it is these little people and their health that matters most and their arrival. should be healthy and there. are. no we welcome your say on that and other stories just drop a comment on our website that's r.t. dot com and among other stories online for you today vandalism or just

a harmless prank a street artist has turned a soviet soldiers into an american comic book superheroes giving new costumes to figures in the red army monument in bulgaria including superman batman and even ronald mcdonald. it was find out how a four year old boy won a lawsuit against the circus for failing to feature a lion and the tiger as promised by an advertisement for all that and much more at a party dot. i'll be back with the headlines shortly but first the business update with a few moments.

follow time for you a business welcome to the world's oldest and largest as shown of gas on the way in paris today it's hoped it will spur a return to message multiple in order. to better mr newspaper says russia is expected to sign contracts to sell planes also the country's largest airline air force is going to buy eight new head of the event this is art she spoke to the head of boeing about russia's contribution to the plane makers business. you know airplane sales of the blood of all business when business because we'll sell our planes in the last year was sold almost one hundred new airplanes over here but not

less important maybe for me personally more important that russia is a really great supply for boeing we talked about the intellectual services we buy engineering we buy acknowledges we develop technologies together the russian scientists we bought and developed there were sophisticated i t. and this is hundreds of millions of dollars that we boeing buy from russia in the sector that i think is critical for the survival of the russian economy. china and russia going into green business they have agreed to create a new company which will develop energy from agricultural waste russia has enough resources to produce almost seventy billion cubic meters of buy gas a year that's enough to cover all the annual electricity needs of countries such as invasion egypt. ok time for a quick check on the markets for ishant madonna monday because of continued over creases debt crisis and concerns over the third u.s.

economy prentiss trading at one hundred and eleven dollars a barrel while the light sweet has week to ninety one dollars. asia stocks declined on monday off to euro zone finance ministers postponed decision on the greek rescue package while jet these exposures to client need concerns over the global economic recovery. european stocks are also low on monday with investors avoiding a brisk self is that you find this unable to reach a solution to the greek crisis despite meeting over the weekend the polls bearish sentiment has dominated the russian markets the archos is losing more than one percent and the my six is also low more than half a percent. let's have a look at some of the individual moves on the mice it's on the order show as well still to come a losing seven point seven percent off to the earlier rally and less attributed the rise softer cross telecom shares were included in the r.t.s. index and expectations of the stocks will soon be included in the m.s.c.i.

index energy measures are suffering losses wrecked by the oil dries gas from is in the red despite it has announced a twenty six percent increase the full cost of this us european exports broncos also in the red more than hollow percent more in the company in just a moment. the first introduced i.p.o. may happen as soon as this year the country's largest insurer has taken a six hundred fifty million dollar loan to prepare for the listing and the say. the company could be worth more than two billion dollars. retail lending in russia is to receive a facelift with the addition of a strong new player the country's largest lender is teaming up with a billion people russian subsidiary and the joint venture will install loan officers in very retail stores across russia within about three years the company is expected to dominate with a wrong to thirty percent market share and that's just the big companies key

competitive advantage will be rooted in lower interest rates for broadcast such own seventy percent of the new phone with the pair bought holding the rest. that's all we have time for now you're up to date i'll be back unless someone else time with another business update and you can find more stores in our website r.t. dot com slash business.

welcome back here's a recap of the top stories on our t.v. the international atomic energy watchdog. report on japan's howling of the fukushima crisis a nuclear security forum in vienna the review criticizes the japanese authorities for there are some lower sponsors. accusing them of underestimating the risks of radiation leaks. nato admits to killing civilians in sunday's airstrike on tripoli blaming a weapons system failure live in officials claim there have been more than eight hundred innocent victims of the bombings since the intervention in march. of next year's russia presidential election

a wall to see dmitri medvedev and prime minister putin and going head to head the longstanding speculation that was finally ended by the russian president in an interview with a british newspaper. and up next takes a closer look at the nuclear crisis in japan we talk to the number two nuclear official in the disaster hit country to stay with us for that interview. we are here with he day he call in the shiite man who is with the ministry of a commie here in japan specifically with the agency that deals with nuclear safety and thank you very much for taking some time to be with us today now as this. devastating event has happened in the news has spread out around the world it's become clear in the past three months that the information coming from the from the nuclear plant has gotten worse can you tell us what's the situation on the ground right now the situation is improving. for example we're

steadily in introducing a water to the reactors. you need one two and three and their fear is stable and it could. already asian. exposure is becoming less and less of a problem is the water which originated from that waterway introduced into their reactors so we are now at the find there are testing the process of introducing establishing waterproofing a system people on the ground say that they have doubts about the information that is coming from the government why do you think they have these doubts and what is the government doing to get this information out there. the japanese government tried to.