the fukushima daini has four reactors, none seriously damaged. mayors and assembly chiefs from the towns that host the plants say they want utility workers to scrap all ten reactors. they say there's no alternative because residents have been forced to live as evacuees since the meltdown. the leaders plan to get assembly members to endorse their demand. then they'll take that demand to central government officials and utility representatives. >> translator: we will strive not only to get the reactors scrapped, but also to help end the crisis at the fukushima daiichi plant. >> fukushima prefecture governor and members of his assembly have repeatedly called for all ten reactors to be scrapped. the chief of the utility's fukushima headquarters says he wants to discuss the issue with townspeople. but he says company officials can't reach a decision right now because they need to consider local views and the nation's energy policy. people in fukushima prefecture have been closely monitoring radiation levels since the nuclear disaster. they are now abl

eight crash you have the same thing everywhere you look whether it's genetically modified food or fukushima that was like some stupid people being sold on this idea that we could have free infinite energy with no cost. being plucked plucked were completely blocked were being plucked and were being plucked of our senses or being plucked of our network for being plucked of our food or being plucked of our water pluck pluck pluck to look at this this is your future oh. well that looks like a genetically modified factory farmed chicken and that's the same sort of sinkhole of food system that we have because so many stupid people just care about the price they don't care what's in it but we're going to look at the energy system right now in this fracking because fracking is coming here to the u.k. and we're seeing that very little of the negative downside of where it's already been tried it is being covered texas is fact more than thirty towns will soon be out of water more than thirty towns in west texas will soon be out of water as a direct result of diverting their underground water. supplies

fukushima also reports of homes damaged by heavy rain and flooding. been quite a lot going on across the country today. wednesday looks like it is going to be a much clearer day. there will still be the potential to see some thunderstorms in the afternoon hours with daytime heating and we will see temperatures steadily building in toward the weekend as well. tokyo saturday and sunday looking for about 35 degrees on the thermometer but for the time being, wednesday will be a bit clearer so good news there. other parts of eastern asia not going to be so for nat. still heavy rain from northeastern china down to the southwest. very unstable. down toward the south as well, more rain but where it is not coming in is of just as much importance. we have extended drought conditions across the eastern and central parts of china, along with heat that just doesn't seem to cease at all. going back to the rain for a second, i want to tell you what's happening in the southern china -- south china sea. heavy rain moving from hainan island into southwestern china. thi

is very much at risk at this point this is the next big crisis at fukushima including the fact that they are piling up the water behind these underground walls softening the ground and you have three destroyed reactors and a fourth build. with a very precarious high level radioactive waste storage pool and there are warnings by seismologists and engineers that you are softening the ground and you could cause the collapse of those buildings broad fact if the ground is soft you get that effect the san francisco had during the plague of nineteen whatever it was ninety eighty years something where it amplifies the motion above it and there's ongoing earthquakes at the site there was just a five point six so so weeks ago. let's let's recapitulate the history of this because you know when we first talked way back almost two years ago and it's a two and a half years that this would have to go you were talking about if you and paul were talking about how if the cores melt through the bottom of the of the steel containers and they start going into the ground there's a lot of concrete under t

highly radioactive water had leaked from the fukushima nuclear pandplant in japan. will this area ever recover? encountered as bomb. how it handles this slowdown may define the country for decades to come. welcome to our viewers on public television and also around the globe. tonight, tensions are on the rise again in egypt after the leader of the moslem brotherhood was arrested. not backing down, the brother of it has already named a new leader and called for more protests. discussions are taking place at the courthouse about what should happen to american aid. square, thehrir hopes of the revolution are looking as threadbare as the abandoned tents. it is possible that former president mubarak will be released soon on remand. the square is not the cockpit of the egyptian democracy anymore. now the army has the power. it says it is working for the people, and a lot of egyptians, including secular liberal politicians agree. >> that there has been a problem between egyptians and a terrorist group. >> frida and her children are paying part of the price. her husband, mo

many people in fukushima can't go back to their homes. community leaders say they have had it with nuclear plants. they are joini ining hands to dd the scrapping of all and not just those that melted down. that i have six reactors and four were damaged in the tsunami of march 2011 and melted down. they are due to be scrapped. the fukushima plant has four reactors and none was seriously damaged. mayors and chiefs from the towns that host the plants say they want utility workers to scrap all ten reactors and say there is no alternative because residents have been forced to live as evacuees since the melt down. they want to get assembly to force the demand. they will take that to representatives. >> translator: we will strive not only to get the reactors scrapped, but also to help end the crisis at the fukushima plant. >> fukushima preif et ceteraure governor have repeatedly called for all ten reactors to be scrapped. the chief of the headquarters said he wants to discuss the issue with towns people, but he said company officials can't reach

. >>> and scientists studying radioactive water leaks at fukushima daiichi warn there could be several sources of contamination other than groundwater. >>> day after day, egyptians are seeing the very real consequences of the political turmoil that's left their country in crisis, clashes between supporters of ousted president mohammed morsi and security forces have killed more than 850 people in six days, some of the latest deaths are only deepening the divisions. interior ministry officials say security forces were transporting 600 supporters of morsi's power base, the muslim brotherhood, to a detention facility. they say some tried to escape and the security forces used tear gas, some died of suffocation in a van. members say they may have been killed intentionally. >>> violence has been unfolding in part of egypt that has a history of unrest. an armed group ambushed police officers in the sinai peninsula and killed 24. it happened in the town of rafah. islamist militants are believed to be behind the attack. the recent wave of violence started last wednesday after security forces mo

. >>> the fukushima fallout continuing, we tell a story of those wishing to return to land that cannoted for decades. ♪ ♪ >>> welcome back. the top stories on al jazeera. >>> the united states is considering intervening in the syrian war. the secretary of state says that there is no doubt that government forces used chemical weapons. >>> in syria government forces are said to have dropped incendienery bombs in some locales. >>> negotiations have been call selled by palestinians after israelis shot three men in a refugee camp. >>> the president of afghanistan, hamid karzai, has extended talks with the pakistani officials. karzai says that wants the government to arrange a meeting between the peace council and the taliban. this would appear to be a promising sign, kamal? >> indeed. as you mentioned, this trip was supposed to last only five hours when president hamid karzai touched down in islamabad with a delegation including a member of the high peace council and following the talks with the prime minister, there was it appears some breaking of the ice after which the prime minister req

eight crash you have the same thing everywhere you look whether it's genetically modified food or fukushima that was like some stupid people being sold on this idea that we could have free infinite energy with no cost. being plucked were plucked were completely plucked were being plucked and were being plucked of our senses or being part of our network or being plucked out our food or being plucked of our water pluck pluck pluck to look at this this is your future oh i know. that. well that looks like a genetically modified factory farmed chicken and that's the same sort of sinkhole of food system that we have because so many stupid people just care about the price they don't care what's in it but we're going to look at the energy system right now in this fracking because fracking is coming here to the u.k. and we're seeing that very little of the negative downside of where it's already been tried it is being covered texas's fact more than thirty towns will soon be out of water more than thirty towns in west texas will soon be out of water as a direct result of diverting their underground w

fukushima happened in march 2011, march 11, 2011. day before that happened, on march 10th, the vermont yankee got its license renewed, they got it renewed the day before fukushima happened. and here is why that is important. this is what the reactors at fukushima looked like before they melted down. does that look familiar at all? yes, it is exactly the same design as the vermont yankee nuclear plant. both plants were made using the exact same ge nuclear reactors. they were designed and built way back in the 1970s. after fukushima happened, lots of attention was paid to potential design flaws in the specific reactor. that is in part what ramped up the pressure in vermont to get vermont yankee shut down. well, now it will be shut down next year. and once it is shut down for good that means there will only be 22 more reactors at plants across the united states using the exact same design and reactor used at fukushima. fukushima, which is still an ongoing nuclear disaster, two and a half years later. for nuclear opponents in this countr

. >> live from fukushima district where inspectors have seen for themselves how serious those leaks are>> the trial that is gripping china, they testify against her husband and she has gone mad they say. and british versus french wine, really? we will take a taste test a little later in the program. ♪ so the president the most powerful ali russia are viewing the site of wednesday's chemical attack, the government says syrian rebels must guaranty safe access to inspector and un general says the use of chemical weapons would constitute crimes against humanity but the government denies launching a gas attack near the capitol damascus and hundreds of dies including women and children and we report. >> reporter: images of syrian civilians dead and wounded from alleged chemical attacks are bringing calls for military intervention. the international community must respond with force. >> there must be a reaction. what does that mean a reaction? not sending troops on the ground but a reaction, not international condemnation but in the u.s. it's less decisive and it's a top u.s. general opposes a

fukushima daiichi reactor. unlike its neighbor, these reactors are intact but shut down. all but two of japan's 50 reactors are off for safety checks while the public debates abandoning nuclear energy completely. >> translator: i'm against nuclear power. it's too dangerous and too close to the sea. >> translator: it's hard. we need electricity, but we all know it's a risk. >> reporter: japan has a love/hate relationship with nuclear power. her sheem ma and nag sacky are one reason. japan's nuclear reactors produce energy. imported oil and gas cost the country a fortune. renewables like wind and geothermal can't meet demand. jap japanese nuclear energy was supposed to be efficient and reliable until the disaster exposed the flaws. opinion polls show that opposition to turn the power plants back on remains strong at over 50%, but more people are coming around to living with nuclear power again. that's what japan's prime minister shinzo abe wants. he's visiting gulf states to sell them japanese nuclear technology.

eight crash you have the same thing everywhere you look whether it's genetically modified food or fukushima that was like some stupid people being sold on this idea that we could have free infinite energy with no cost. being plucked were plucked were completely blocked were being plucked and were being plucked of our senses are being plucked of our network are being plucked out of our food are being plucked of our water pluck pluck pluck to look at this this is your future oh i know. that. well that looks like a genetically modified factory farmed chicken and that's the same sort of sinkhole of food system that we have because so many stupid people just care about the price they don't care what's in it but we're going to look at the energy system right now in this fracking because fracking is coming here to the u.k. and we're seeing that very little of the negative downside of where it's already been tried it is being covered texas's fact more than thirty towns will soon be out of water more than thirty towns in west texas will soon be out of water as a direct result of diverting their unde

the city is 30 kilometers from fukushima daiichi. fishermen suspended all commercial operations after the nuclear reaction, but last year they started catching some types of seafood in limited areas on a trial basis, wanted to expand the area where they do their test fishing as part of their efforts to resume full scale operations. >> translator: we had no choice but to halt the plan. it is important to gain consumer understanding before we go fishing. >> members say they will decide when to expand test fishing once they get the results of radiation checks they are doing on sea water. >>> north korean authorities say they will reopen an industrial zone they jointly run with south korea. the kaesong complex has been closed since april. it is considered a rare symbol of interkorean cooperation. the committee for peaceful reunification of the fatherland issued a statement saying a failure of the complex would have a grave effect on relations. continue interkorean relations and leaders in pyongyang are responding for an easing of tension

. >> there's been another leak at the fukushima nuclear plant in japan. today the operators said 80,000 gallons of highly radioactive water escaped from the storage tank. on top of another massive leak discovered last month. all this bad news has devastated japan's fishing industry. seth doane now with more on that. >> there haul on this day was a good one, at least for fishermen in fukushima. octopus is one of the seafood items is deemed safe enough to eat in these waters. more than a year after the march 2011 earthquake in tsunami that destroyed the fukushima plant here, fishing was not allowed at all. it finally resumed in june of 2012. then in late july of this year, the plant was found to be pouring 75,000 gallons of radioactive water a day into the pacific. it seems like we took one step forward and as soon as things were getting brighter, the leakage put a damper on it, fisherman told us. before the earthquake there were -- today there are 130 but the really surprising number is they used to haul in around 19,000 tons of fish a year. today they bri

onto find out what is going inside fukushima, i joined a local fisherman capt. fish, but noting to eat. about 5,000 meters out from the plant. this is as close as anyone is allowed to go. and the fish that their wives -- catching in the waters will be taken and tested for radioactive isotopes. doing that, they are mapping the amount of radiation in the ocean. and what they have found is a clear pattern. the testing shows radiation from the plant has continued leaking into the sea ever since the disaster. the plant managers has tried to -- have tried to deny this for more than two years. >> it has been to a half years since the accident, he says, and none of us are satisfied with the measures being taken by the power company. none of us feel we're being told the truth. >> the beaches along the fukushima coast finally reopened this month, a small sign of life returning to normal. but now people here have another reason to fear going back into the water. >> happy scenes on the beach that contract with the unhappy news inside that nuclear power station. let's get ot

daiichi in 2011 and they agreed on a joint project to study the spread of radiation in fukushima. they'll use ukrainian rockets to launch japanese microsatellites to determine how radioactive materials have dispersed. >> translator: japan and ukraine face the same challenges. i hope we can work closely together. >> he said the japanese government will try to regain the trust of other countries. he said government officials will disclose more information about how they're cleaning up after the disaster in fukushima. >>> israeli troops shot and killed three palestinians in a raid on a refugee camp in the west bank. a palestinian spokesperson said it could derail the recently started peace talks. israeli military leaders say their soldiers were trying to arrest a suspected terrorist. they said hundreds of palestinians poured into streets hurling fire bombs. they say their officers had no choice but to open fire. palestinian medical officials say the casualties were all young protesters. at least 15 other palestinians were wounded. u.s. diplomats convinced israeli and palestinian nego

every day hundreds of tons of water accumulate inside fukushima daiichi. hundreds more are contaminating water with radioactive particles. in this edition of nuclear watch, we're looking at the latest to bring the situation back under control. >> reporter: workers at fukushima daiichi have struggled to stop radiation from escaping into the environment ever since the 2011 earthquake and tsunami wrecked the facility. one of the main sources of contamination is the groundwater that flows from the mountains into the nuclear plant. government officials used tokyo electric power company data to estimate the extent of the problem. they said approximately 300 tons of water was filtering through the site until early this month, becoming laced with radioactive materials and then seeping into the sea. another factor is the ever-increasing amount of water accumulating inside damaged infrastructure. once it makes its way into reactor buildings it mixes with radioactive isotopes. for months, tepco workers have been pumping up 400 tons of water every day and storing it i

what is happening tat fukushima today? >> reporter: well, the inspectors as you mentioned made a visit there that there are areas of high radiation in front of at least two of the other water storage tanks similar to the one that was found to be leakingish and there are more than a thousand of those used to store water essential water used to cooling the overheated three reactors which have melted down, three of the six at the plant. there have been indications--proof, no--indications that the tanks are leaking. what it doesn't tell the inspectors how long this has been going on for, how much water has leaked from the tanks. the monitoring of the plant is not everything that it could be, and the company in charge of the clean up and the japanese government overseeing it all has to do something about standards there. let me di agrees for a moment to explain where i am and why i'm standing here. this town somewhere between 17 to 20 kilometers from the plant itself is one of the exclusion zones, perhaps you could say the mild

the leak at japan's fukushima plant is worse than originally described. it's raising it's warning about the severity of toxic water leaking from that plant. >>> and legalized pot in washington is turning into a very big business. how everyone from pot growers and sellers to the state government are reaping the rewards. >> fire officials in idaho say they have turned the dyed against the wildfire near sun valley. they cleared the way for hundreds of people in that area to return home meanwhile, across the western u.s. thousands of firefighters are working to bring 50 other wildfires under control. at this point the fires have been contained in colorado bringing the total number of states involved to ten. we have more with what they're up against. >> it's dawn, and just 37 degrees. some 240 men and women are preparing for another day on the fire line. grabbing a quick coffee and breakfast before the morning briefing. cole is the person in charge here. he's the branch director of the fire, the number one firefighting priority in the country. his job descript

remember, fukushima and also chernobyl were both level sevens.aunches into the atmosphere. this was an ugly, ugly event. it was a seven. but after the cleanup a couple of years, now it's back down to a one. with this dumping or this losing of some of the water and possibly into the ground water and into the ocean, eventually, this could go up to the three. three mile island was a five. seven, the only two sevens, chernobyl and fukushima. it's not over. this may take 1,000 years to truly clean up everything. so we're going to have these little bumps in the road, without a question. >> still a very dangerous situation. thank you, chad. appreciate that. >>> scientists, they want to know why dozens of dolphins have now washed up this summer along the east coast beaches. >> go ahead. feel his teeth there, brian. nice, nice sharp teeth. we look under the tongue. make sure there's nothing. some of the viruses cause lesions. >> we're going to tell you what scientists think is happening to them, up next. [ male announcer ] this is claira. to prove to you

caroline reports. >> reporter: 300 cubic meters of water has leaked from the fukushima plant.he authority says they have upgraded their assessment to a serious nuclear incident. they still don't know for sure how the radioactive water got out, but enough water to fill an olympic-sized pool in a week has somehow breached the tanks. they suspect the water got through a rubber valve connected to a gutter, and now the water gathering outside is so toxic it would expose a person to more radiation in an hour than is healthy in five years. >> translator: we could say that we found a radiation level strong enough to give someone a five-year dose of radiation within one hour. >> reporter: contaminated water was also said to be leaking into the sea. they have been trying to deal with leaks of varying severity, when the nuclear plant pushed them into crisis in 2011. this suggests that they are a long way to go before the area is anywhere safe again. >>> doctors without boarders has ended all of its operations in sew mally because of increasing violence. now a new wave of attacked has for

anita, al jazerra, fukushima province. >> and still ahead, don't eat less but stay the course.on dieters from one of the country's leading centers for weight management. liberia's high school students are having major problems taking tests. why thousands of not passing college entry examples? exams. for the first time in three decades, snow and rainfall on a chilean desert. >> good morning again, i automatic morgan radford and these are some of the stories we are filling right now. the united states says syria used chemical weapons on its own people. second of state john kerry is calling it a moral obscenity. out of control wild fires are spreading in northern california, where they have already burned nearly 225 square miles. the blaze is edging closer to a reservoir where san francisco gets its drinking water. extreme flooding in eastern mexico has claimed the lives of 13 people. eight-inches of rain has also caused land slides all the way in the veracruz province of the country. doctors at duke university are experimenting with a new way to deal with obesity. they are encour

seth doane visited a radioactive area near fukushima with a former resident. a nuclear danger zone, returning there becomes about checkpoints, equipment and protective suits, only residents are allowed in. we so asked akita okawara to be our guide. homeowners can make just ten trips a year, no more than five hours each. >> and these are streets you've come down your whole life. what goes through your mind now driving toward your own home? it used to be a very beautiful place, he told us. it makes me very, very sad. vegetation has reclaimed the roads near his home of 50 years. >> this is your house right here? the only sounds were insects in the eerie kicking of our radiation meter. nearly 2 1/2 years later, bills sat unopen, in this house occupied by animals. there's a newspaper from 2011. is this march -- oh, my gosh, march 11th, 2011. this was the day of the disaster. okawara and his family thought they'd be gone only a few hours. pictures of his three kids laden in radioactive dust hang in the living room. i want people around the world to understand what f

the real risk is at fukushima. the meltdown of three nuclear reactors turned nearby towns into still lives. the threat now is offshore to japanese seafood. fishing is a $14 billion industry. dr. kens byler of the woods hole oceanographic institute says he's finding high levels of radiation in fish like flounder near the plant. >> the levels we see in the ocean looking back towards the shore, are high enough that they must be sustained by a small but continued leak from the reactor site. >> reporter: today most of the fukushima fishery remains closed. now there are reports the power company is considering freezing the ground around the plant. essentially building a mile-long ice wall underground. something that's never been tried before to keep the water out. one scientist i spoke to today dismissed this idea as grasping at straws, just more evidence that the power company failed to anticipate this problem, lester, and now cannot solve it. >> disturbing is an understatement. anne, thank you. >>> we're back in a mome

fukushima daichi in march of two thousand and one. wow that is quite a one hundred times now how much and what sort of radiation is leaking into the pacific i know there's all different types if you can explain a little detail well clearly what we've seen now as the movement of radioactive hydrogen tritium which is a mobile radioactive isotope but clearly. radioactive cesium one thirty four one thirty seven strontium ninety we're seeing a full range of radioactive contaminants now moving which indicate that the damaged cores of these reactors the meltdowns themselves have are now contributing to the contamination of the pacific ocean and groundwater that's moving abroad of a rate of about three hundred to four hundred. metric tons per day so but these numbers are really only approximations and will vary but clearly a lot of radioactivity is moving through groundwater into the ocean now why is the plan continuing to leak you'd think they would have or maybe they already have taken steps to contaminate some of this they get well they th

two years after the tsunami, fukushima is still leaking large amounts of radioactive water. the region nearby is a no-man's- land. but seth doane went back with a man whose home is now in a radioactive ghost town. >> reporter: when home is inside a nuclear danger zone, returning there is about checkpoints and protective suits. only residents are allowed in so we asked this man to be our guide. homeowners can make just ten trips a year-- no more than five hours each. these are streets you drove through your whole life. what goes through your mind driving to your old home? "it used to be a very beautiful place," he told us. "it makes me very, very sad." vegetation has reclaimed the roads near his home of 50 years. this is your house right here. the only sounds were insects and the eerie ticking of our radiation meter. nearly two and a half years later, bills sat unopened in this house occupied only by animals. there's a newspaper here from 2011. is this march -- oh, my gosh. march 11, 2011. this was the day of the disaster. >> reporter: he and his family thought they'd be gone

. ♪ >>> workers at the fukushima daiichi nuclear plant discovered they have a bigger cleanup effort onheir hands following a leak of highly radioactive water. they found out last week that the toxic water had seeped out of a storage tank, one of hundreds on site. now they've learned it may have flowed in two directions. last monday crews found more than 300 tons of highly radioactive waste water had leaked from the tank. the water escaped a low barrier through a valve used to drain rainwater. workers detected high levels of radiation inside a nearby ditch. now officials with tokyo electric power company say inspectors observed high levels near a valve on the other side of the tank. officials fear contaminated water may have flowed out of there, too. and they worry the runoff may have seeped into the ground. so they've decided to remove soil from a wider area than they had planned. they still don't know what caused the leak or how far the contamination spread. they suspect some of the water may have flowed into the ocean through the drainage ditch. >>> tepco officials have hinted it wil

the japanese government is forced to step in and help the operator of the crippled fukushima power plant container recently revealed massive leak of radioactive water. plus. london reaches for the scalpel as the u.k.'s national health service comes under scrutiny following a series of malpractise scandals. it is five pm in moscow you're watching our team with me marina joshie welcome to the program now the united nations has launched an investigation into the reported slaughter of kurdish civilians by al-qaeda affiliated groups in syria that comes from a comment made by the un to r.t. four hundred fifty kurds most of them women and children were allegedly killed in the north east of the country has the details. according to various reports at least four hundred fifty people have been killed by the on their front in north eastern syria reports say that at least one hundred twenty of those are children now we have requested information from the united nations in regards to the situation we have received their response according to the united nations they their team is in the region investi

the alert level at fukushima is said to be the highest since the time of the disaster. >> the degree to which the problem at fukushima has not been dealt with has laid bea ba, there are various elaboration of radio kitchen water in the drainage channels, even more disturbing because this is not some sort of uncharted, unexpected leak of water from god knows where. this is water used to treat three of the reactors which are in a constant state effectively of melt down. they use that to cool down because if you don't do that, it will lead to a more serious event or environmental hazard. they use these to keep these very seriously overheating plants at a manager temperature and they store the then radioactive water in one of a thousands tanks, and they found that one or proper several of these are not secured, and not safe to stand near for any number of hours into if groundwater and then they think there is a real danger it is getting into the sea as well because the plant is so close to the sea coast. mismanagement, the worry that perhaps the japanese people haven't been given the ent

like saying that things at fukushima were cool more than a year and a half ago?ot cool, spiraling out of control, there are hundreds of storage sites that have been collecting radiation-contaminated water that has been there ever since the de-commission. it is the radioactive fuel rods that get pumped into the storage bins, where it can be thoroughly decontaminated. that is the idea. but earlier, the experts noticed a puddle forming out of the storage tanks, the highly radioactive contamination leaking out of the plant. it is the amount that a person should be exposed to in five years. today, the question that it has leaked 300 tons of radioactive water, 300 tons have escaped into the surrounding area. and this is not the first issue they have had wh it comes to on owns the plant claimed that hundreds of them were leaking into the ocean, the ocean we all share. this new crisis at fukushima with all the radioactive matter leaking everywhere has caused the japanese government to raise this to a level 3 disaster. for context, the nuclear disaster in 1979 was a level

. >> a leak of japan's fukushima nuclear plant force authorities to put it on the highest alert since the 2011 tsunami. ♪ hello, other top stories in al jazeera. corruption charges should be dropped against mubarak. >> reporting from inside a prison where i've been speaking to convicted insurgents. >> and introducing the icow, we're in kenya to find out about the new technology that is transforming traditional farming. >> japan's nuclear regulator on wednesday upgraded its evaluation of a radioactive water link o leak to a level the sensitive level. it's the highest alert since the meltdown of 2011 tsunami. >> 300 cubic meters of water contaminated by radiation leaked from the fukushima plant. authorities say they've upgraded their assessment to a serious nuclear incident. they're still not sure how the water got out but enough to fill an olympic sized pool in a week has some how reached the metal tanks. they suspect the water got through a valve connected to a gutter, and now the water gathering outside is so toxic it would expose a person to more radiation in an hour than is healthy

it's nuclear infrastructure. >> reporter: up the coast from the damaged fukushima reactor. it's reactors are intact but shut down. all about two of japan's 50 reactors are off the safety checks while the public debates abandoning nuclear energy completely. >> i'm against nuclear power. it's too dangerous and too close to the sea. >> it's hard, but we all know it's a risk. >> reporter: japan has a love-hate relationship with nuclear power. one reason, national di sas dis. japanese know the dilemma is a lack of alternatives. imported oil and gas cost the fortuncountry a fortune. japanese nuclear energying was supposed to be proficient and reliable until the fukushima nuclear disaster exposed all its flaws. opinion polls show the opposition to turning the power plants back on remain strong at over 50%. but more people are coming around to living with nuclear power again. that's what japan's prime minister shinzo abe wants. he's going to gulf states to sell them technology. he wants the reactors back home back working and to build more. it's a economic necessity. >> they're bui

. >>> workers at the fukushima daiichi nuclear plant are trying to find out how hundreds of tons of radioactive water leaked from a storage tank. ncht. >>> supporters of the ousted egyptian president continue their protest after the group's spiritual leader was detained. pakistan's former president indicted on murder charges related to the assassination of benazir bhutto. >>> workers at the fukushima daiichi nuclear plant face another challenge. a storage tank has lost 300 tons of highly radioactive water. the plant's operator says it's the worst leak they've had since the nuclear accident two years ago. a low wall surrounds tanks near reactor number four. workers found a puddle forming outside of it. officials from the tokyo electric power company say one tank lost 300 tons of water. they're trying to find out how. tepco officials say the water inside the tank was treated to reduce radioactive cesium, but they found that the leaked water still had high levels of radioactive materials. tepco officials say they think most of the water has seeped into the ground, but they say it's unlikely that i

ukraine yans after the 1986 accident provides a great example with dealing with the accident at fukushima. >> kishida told recorders he realized the effort to contain the aftereffects of the chernobyl accident continues to this day. >>> even though nearly 30 years have passed since the accident at chernobyl, radiation levels are still high around the plant. a no-entry zone extends 30 kilometers from the site. about 30 firefighters and plant workers died soon after the accident due to acute radiation exposure. more than 160,000 people were forced to move out of contaminated areas. they continue to live on government subsidies. a u.n. survey suggest many children in the area have developed thyroid cancer. others have developed heart and circumstance la tory diseases. some complain of physical disorders including headaches and dizziness. the ukrainian government provides support to about 2 million people. >>> japan is ready to continue doing its part in anti-piracy operations under way by multi-national forces off so mail yo. shinzo abe made a visit to the region over the weekend. abe met th

. >>> the owners of japan's fukushima nuclear plants says it needs outside assistance to deal with a leak of radio cuff water. >>> anita mcnarr has more. >> what we understand is tepco the japanese power generating company and indeed the japanese government have not got on top of the fukushima daichi reactor problem at all. this particular leak we are talking about is from water that ha was supposed to be safely contained after being used to cool one of the three nuclear reactors essentially in the stage of ongoing melt down. if that water isn't used to do this job the consequences for japan, the consequences for the region and the wider country will be very, very grave, indeed. they can't afford to let these plants get any more critical again. but this then highly radioactive water was supposed to be stored safely in tanks and now the japanese public and the wider world are discovering it hasn't been stored safely as well and at least one of the tanks is leaking. the fukushima plant has not been secured and stabilized and slowly as the months go by the company that is supposed to be