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japan approves a second disaster recovery budget devastated community. support and fears grow over radiation levels in the area around fukushima. shining a light on the web of international terror russia publishes a declassified list of people and groups. in the north caucasus. and take a turn for the worse as portugal's downgraded to junk status with panic spreading over where. it also reported to us our diplomatic between russia. and the french the libyan rebels saying it was a violation of the un resolution on the conflict. that.

international news and comment live from moscow this is. almost four months since the massive earthquake and tsunami tore through japan's northeast the daunting task of rebuilding homes and lives continues efforts have been boosted by the passing of a second emergency budget of almost twenty five billion dollars but one of the financial assistance traumatized survivors are also in desperate need of emotional support. now reports. as the waves crash against a damaged to sea wall on the japanese coast volunteers work tirelessly to clean up the debris and bring some sense of normalcy back to the area. i want to tell people we need more help more supplies and things are still bad here beyond the physical destruction and there is a distressing psychological factor as well the city if you want he is right on the

edge of the twenty kilometer exclusion zone for radiation contamination in fact in a recent study by japan's nuclear safety commission forty five percent of one thousand children tested in any walk and neighboring cities have tested positive for thyroid radiation exposure a figure that has parents appalled that the government has resets the great ear if a safety and are not concerned with consequences their reaction is only to help the government save face but they don't actually take care of the damage and the people here first there was the earthquake then the devastating a wave which rushed in and destroyed this part of the coastal city of it walking also there are the nuclear radiation waves that are coming into this area as well the volunteers that are coming in to rebuild this city certainly have their work cut out for them but just like the city itself the people who live here the community they need to have their spirits rebuilt as well. that.

guy again in an effort to keep the community emotionally strong organizers have brought this acting troupe in from tokyo they saved their goal is to provide something beyond a simple entertainment or we have a certain japanese pride and in this destructive situation i would like to bring good things and present the spirit of japan and japanese pride by bringing people together and making people smile. throughout shared community experience there is a sense of hope that the city of milwaukee can indeed recover the convenience store to close. its. gifts to. come. and with an understanding that there is still much more work that needs to be done the people here are working to keep their community together. i just want them to stay where they want and they can be helpful that i keep doing it. rebuilding the city one step at

a time in the walkies city japan sean thomas r t. in the wake of the crisis at fukushima japan is going to stress test all of its nuclear power plants to determine how well the reactors could withstand further natural disasters the move is also into the shore and people that the facilities are safe parties back to the director general of the world nuclear association who blames the media for stirring up public panic in japan and here's a preview of what's to come later this hour. i'm sorry we can't bring you that but there will be a special interview on that subject a little later in about twenty minutes from now the russian government has published a list of all individuals and organizations proven to be sponsoring terrorism it also includes international entities involved in funding extremism and their names taken from the u.n. blacklist north caucasus correspondent medina culture never has the details. i list of individuals and companies suspect it's also involvement in financing of

terrorism was published in this government own newspaper this morning you know this document was a previously confidential but now part of it is open to public companies that are present in this list are located in different countries and basically across the globe there are companies that are based in egypt in afghanistan in somalia and even in germany and the united states in terms of individuals they also come from a significant range of countries from the countries of the middle east from african countries from germany the united states and from russia russian citizens primarily komo from the republics of the volatile region of russia's north caucasus from cheney and from and i guess done there are also some well known names in this list some well known groups like the muslim brotherhood. and russia's most wanted terrorist if you know this document shows that some kind of a nod or a cat has been created that connects countries with each other and that the problem

of terrorism has become an international issue now several years ago the world thought. is that our present here in this region as of chechen rebels but now the situation has changed whether russia's most wanted man doku motto is being present on the list of the world's most wanted terrorists and it really is this document shows how the system works and the problem off attorney is far from being solved and it is an international problem. well a lot more still to come in the program this hour including selling weapons or selling note germany is reportedly planning to its two hundred tons of eurabia moves walking human rights concerns and then bottle position politicians. first diplomats from russia and france have reportedly clashed over nature's handling of the libya crisis with a meeting of the un's. security council held behind closed doors is believed moscow criticized the french decision to deliver weapons to get

a few rebels which russia says was a violation of the un resolution are to go to pick a novel or ports on why moscow is taking such a strong stance. libya is becoming a real source of contention between the members of the u.n. security council what happens behind closed doors at the latest meeting of the council was that france came out by saying that it doesn't see a need anymore to air drop weapons to the rebels in libya explaining that they're now organized enough to establish contacts with foreign partners and get the needed weaponry themselves the statement came after another announcement by paris that it has been air dropping all arms to the libyan opposition explaining that this is the only way to prevent civilian deaths while russia is fiercely criticizing all this saying that this is a direct violation of the no fly zone resolution which originally gave the green

light for the entire military operation in libya and its aim was to stop the violence and protect civilians and not supply them with weapons the operation has been going on for over four months and civilians are still being killed not only in the fighting between got our fees forces and the rebels but during nato airstrikes and got out the supporters say that scores of civilians have already been killed because of these strikes including some members of got our fees family including children also several western powers sent to trainers to help organize so the rebels there's now this talking about supplying all arms to the rebels france directly says that is that it's already done this germany is thinking about that russia is a few sleet criticizing all of this saying that this was not the point all for the north winds on resolution because its point was to stop the violence and not to

take horse in this conflict on to say that these forces were able to capture a load of weapons which apparently was heading to the rebels from katara and was produced. in belgium so all of this is a creating. conflicts with the members of the un security council in fact what's happening in libya is already affecting the un security council's policies on syria because a russia says it will veto any similar resolution on syria after what's happened with the resolution. that's now discussed this dispute between russia and france with he's the author of the book humanitarian imperialism joining us there on his webcam in brussels we now know that the u.s. and the u.k. have supported paris in this disagreement with russia which is perhaps no surprise they're all allies of course in the libyan campaign so how much influence does russia actually have in this debate. i don't know but there are

signs that. there is a delusion and i hope they really. are hearing the security council because what science is doing now is. seven thousand one hundred seventy. very late in their. giving to her but it's not none of. this. but the the burning of the resolution is that once. there we are the military alliance we want to wean no matter what then no matter what the resolution says and that will be. a blank check. to the need to preserve the. interest this is also of course a humanitarian mission and this particular instance when those weapons were dropped

to those civilians by the french by what accounts those civilians were under threat from being massacred by gadhafi troops so it's difficult to draw the line is that you can't just stand back and that happened or what isn't that justified on the face is the fact this is a humanitarian mission with the. rebels the. know . all their people it's interesting to see that the international findings. of the. not substantiated they don't say it's was that there. were going to come here but france is now in some ways maybe doing a u. turn saying there's no need to provide the rebels with any more weapons that's what they've just said does that actually mean that perhaps nato can now play less of a role in libya. well i don't see was the everything that we're.

making progress on the ground i don't know. it seems to me that people in people. look at the legal situation and. when you and i've discussed this issue for quite a number of weeks now i'd like to know what do you think the chance that you and i have had and here we are many months into this conflict why is it so hard do you think for the nato forces to achieve that goal why is it taking so long well presumably because there is the other say that if you build the counties the very idea that you know everybody was on the side of the they don't understand avoiding . the collapse even if i don't see i mean they're not being completely.

in a few bombs would do the job and that's not what's happened. under. russia wants russia obviously agrees along with and nato that gadhafi is got to go but obviously doesn't agree with the methods but do you think obviously which russia wants negotiations do you think negotiations really could work at this stage or is it tonight. i mean. that's what we're going to see a. negotiation only with these in favor of negotiation except if you need to see the negotiation. no matter what the end it's going to be because you see look at the same time they're going from afghanistan and that's a time where there is

a move. where. they can get. the situation in afghanistan. and i think. that's. going from a get us then after ten years and they're getting themselves down on other. people if you don't know. me there was a mistake you made the mistake of thinking that easy. weeks not months if not now it's months this is another three months what there is you that in another key months you cannot go on. to be sending troops on the road and you can go on and on i don't know when we'll have to leave it there thanks very much for your thoughts no doubt we'll be talking about this again in the near future john bricmont joining us live in brussels on his webcam thank you thank you very much. well to more on the controversial flows now

germany is reportedly sending two hundred tanks to saudi arabia talk of a deal is causing outrage among germany's opposition politicians who claim the government would be breaking its own export rules well for more on this let's cross live now to young van auken he's a foreign affairs expert from germany's left wing party. thanks very much indeed for joining us the situation in the middle east is far from stable just how significant is the timing of this deal. i mean this timing is a disaster you should know that the saudi arabians for thirty years now modern german tanks and everything the german government denied it and now right in the arab spring right into the movement for democracy and freedom in the arab world this german government decides to two hundred of the most modern tanks it's a disaster clearly a lot of opposition from political parties will the german government listen to the likes of you and perhaps make a u. turn. we know that even in the end the ruling parties there's

a lot of opposition against this because you know it was this government in the past couple of months went to egypt went to an easier who always say that we have to promote and support the movement for democracy in the arab world and everybody here knows and talks about that it was saudi arabia who invaded bottom line with tanks by the way. to fight down there in a bloody intervention the democracy movement so it's even in the ruling party to there are a lot of members who say we can do this if we know all sent to our modern tanks to saudi arabia to that really through more whites violator then we lose any kind of credit in the arab world so don't do it but whether the government or not will make you turn we will see and we had the first demonstrations today and i hope that there will be a larger movement and then yes maybe we can stop it what a lot of talk about political pressure on the government the u.s. has reportedly given the green light to this deal do you think that. as

a result of that recent meeting between merkel and a bomb and that maybe there is a lot of pressure on the let's say more cooperative with the u.s. and indeed with nato. yes but i doubt that there is any kind of pressure from the from the americans that the german short sell the tanks i mean the americans want to start their own tanks i mean there is indeed competition so i doubt that there is any kind of pressure on merkel and the german government i think it's the other way around that the germans would like to sell it and then they asked the obama administration whether they would give the green mind and they probably asked also the israelis and only when they got the green lights if they agreed to the deal but i doubt that there's any kind of international pressure to sell it was always in the past decades that was international pressure not to sell what about business there isn't it germany needs to make money along with many other countries exporting arms. it's a good time isn't it for the german economy although obviously it's the strongest player in europe at the moment but it's the right time is need to do deals like that and why should you be criticizing it when jobs are a state. it's always

a bit of time to sell weapons and i'm totally opposed to any kind of weapons export because in the long run in five years and fifty years all these weapons you export today they will end up in a war in a civil war or fighting to democracy movement and it will cause death by the thousands so i think it's always a bad idea to sell arms and it was actually it was this german government who supported international arms trade treaty to prevent export to a dictatorship and everything and now they're doing the same thing so i don't think they should go ahead on the other way on the other hand they should stop they stopped export to egypt they stopped to libya they stopped it to the museum i think they should stop it to every single to take the ship in the world top of the certainly you know now considering helping out with munitions aid to the nato campaign in libya what are the implications there do you think and what are you saying about it opposition parties. you know i mean there was a lot of criticism that on the one hand the german abstained from intervening in

libya which was the right decision from from my point of view but then sending weapons to support the war there that's a very bad idea and and it's true i mean and this government sort of conservative right wing government i mean there are some forces who are just looking at the money they can make just looking at the export to the broker so they're willing really to sell out of all the human rights issues they want to sell out on all of the democracy movement in the arab world but i hope they are not the majority of the ruling parties really interesting talking to you thanks so much yeah van auken foreign affairs expert from the left wing party the link or joining us live in but in thanks for being with us. one of europe's ongoing struggle to save the euro has been dealt another blow was portugal has had its debt downgraded to junk status moody's the credit rating agency behind the move says a default is likely unless the country has given it another plane out many analysts have questioned the logic of saddling struggling economies with more debt is

speculation grows over whether the is ready to come to portugal's rescue again and the direction the e.u. and the i.m.f. are taking in solving this crisis may well lead to severe consequences that's according to douglas cause well he's an m.p. from the british conservative party. i think it would be immensely food dish to have another bailout because what we're doing with each so-called bailout is adding to the amount of debt owed by countries who are already bankrupt if we really want to fix this problem instead of adding to the debts of portugal greece and other countries what we should be doing is three things we should be devaluing their currencies that means leaving the euro we should be allowing them to default on their debt restructuring if you prefer that term and we should be forcing them to downsize their expensive bloated public sectors by so-called bailing out greece we're not helping greek people what we're doing is we're transferring that debt burden onto the shoulders of european taxpayers it's frankly an outrageous scam and

i think it will mean that you know my children and my children's children will have vastly higher tax bills it's not right it's not good for us in western europe it's not good for greece it's not good for portugal the argument is that we should continue to pay this money to the i.m.f. but i happen to think the i.m.f. is not doing what it has historically done so well it's actually ineffective it is an organization that is that is run with the the wrong approach it's a little bit like putting the arsonists in charge of the fire department we'll continue to see hard pressed western european taxpayers asked or rather not asked but required without consent to foot the bill for the folly of the political class in pursuit of a grandiose vision of monetary union it's outrageous and it's not fair incidentally it's also going to consign us to the economic slow lane for many years to come if this continues. well we've got plenty more pictures of the unrest surrounding the belts at our website that's our t.v. dot com including dramatic footage of

a co-sponsor can report in the showdown between protesters and police and continuing to report through clouds of tear gas that's on the web site also a lot of them how to farm the secret to eternal life we've got all the advice you need if you want to live forever all that and more but all too. the mobile phone has become an integral part of everyday life but what's seen as a funk gadget in some countries has proven enough to revolutionize the lives and livelihoods of many people elsewhere. reports now in the indian fishermen who are costing the next generation network for their catch. up his engine for a day of fishing off the coast of carolina the southernmost state in india. i studied in school until the seventh grade but then i had to leave school because we were not economically well off so i had to help my dad with fishing kumar is one of

thousands of fishermen in the state who wake up at one o'clock in the morning to earn a living for decades fishermen like kumar relied on luck and prayer to find a good catch but all that has changed since the introduction of the mobile phone in the state more than ten years ago but. if the fish is not available where we go fishing fisherman in other parts of the sea call us and tell us where we might be able to find a good catch then we go to that particular place. in addition because of the new ease of communication kumar is able to find out how much demand is that his local market and the prices the buyers are offering in order to determine where best to sell his fish today he is making double the amount of money he was making before he started using a mobile phone he now owns his own boat and says he is able to send his three daughters to college and india has the fastest growing mobile phone market in the world in the most growth is happening in rural areas what may be seen as a convenience in the us is being utilized by indian fishermen revolutionizing their

business and turning them into entrepreneurs and business men in their communities most of these fishermen have been doing this work for generations and never imagine they've become so tech savvy they had watched their fathers and grandfathers come home from sea several times with no fish at all but today that never happens. there's a lot of difference between the times when we used to go fishing with stick boats and now when we go fishing with engine but after the arrival of the phone it's become easier for us to studies show that mobile phones aren't just empowering the fisherman in the community more competition means better prices for consumers on average they fallen by four percent it's a new quality of life for the people of this community who never dreamed that they would escape poverty. most fishermen they're illiterate but we want to give a proper education to our children and that is possible because of the earning we get from the fishing business there's no doubts that mobile phones have helped

providing new opportunities by advancing their tradition with technology preassure either r.t. carola india approaches to exactly twenty five minutes past the hour in the russian capital i'll be back with a look at all my new stories in the meantime trina's green is next with the business news. so welcome to our business report here on our team the currency wars are not over the drive to find a way out seems to be fading brazil's finance minister says he's ready for extra steps to stem the damaging rise of the ryal according to take up big economies have failed to agree on guidelines to manage their currencies meanwhile mahler's a lot of oil from eighty x. capital says russia has no reason to join the battle. russia seems to be in a slightly better position than some of the other developing nations will forget

that these emerging economies have been emerging economies only last few years or so. russia's been around a lot longer although russia has a huge trade balance inflation is not really a major issue in russia and it does have a more developed economy so if there is a currency war between developers and developed economies and emerging market economies i don't figure russia will be dragged into it as soon as oh yes. let's have a look at them the markets now a stronger dollar and high interest rates in china pulling or a low or high rates may slow economic growth and demand for oil u.s. energy to parkland is to release a report thursday that could show that crude stockpiles dropped to a half million barrels last week. u.s. stocks are trading in the red with investors considering china's latest interest rate hike also affecting stocks our movies downgrading portugal's debt late on tuesday but both the dow jones and nasdaq higher this hour european stocks are down

for the same reason portugal's downgrade and china's rate hike footsies losing half a percent of the dax is down a quarter of a percent banking stocks up putting pressure in london with barclays sending over four percent and world bank of scotland. and russian equity markets close in the red with banking and energy stocks under pressure let's have a look at some individual shambles on the my xix energy majors and among the main losers this hour. banking stocks are also under pressure with the t.v. losing only two percent bucking the trend is called it was up over four percent supported by strong the precious metals figure provided from talk a dialogue says the recent upward trend in the market is not likely to change. very hard to do i feel that the market wants to see some correction after a recent three days drop and probably will fall is simply index. as some people form extremely well in the last two three days ago about five percent of so i think the markets will simply need some break before going further up. for the first time

a russian company is holding an i.p.o. in poland the country's largest grain. forty percent of its equity at around fourteen dollars per share the price is significantly lower than initially expected and value of the company around six hundred million dollars. to spend the i.p.o. proceeds on land development. business out there for this i would be looking at the market's performance next hour so joining me.