you are looking at the map of fukushima prefecture where the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant is situated. a quick wrapup of what has been happening since saturday night. 28,000 people have evacuated their homes to other areas to avoid possible radiation from the fukushima daiichi i nuclear power plant. as of wednesday, 31,000 fukushima prefecture had accepted 28,152 evacuees in addition to those who had taken shelter in those move municipalities by saturday night. many temporary shelters in the prefecture were too crowded to accept the newcomers. at a shelter about 100 kilometer from the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant, 295 evacuees joined the 38 people who went there straight after the quake. some of the newcomers say they have to go there because the first shelter they went to was overcrowd. they say some have not received any radioactive screening tests. there are a number of people trying to evacuate to other prefectures is on the rise. they have 17 hotels for evacuees from fukushima to stay at. 26700 people have already taken shelter in narita. >> my home is 21 kilome

the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant tepco is preparing to restore power source from outside. which was explained at the news conference. at the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant, the biggest trouble was that the tower collapsed an the power distribution panel and the facilities were submerged in water due to tsunami and they were broken. so attempts to cool down the nuclear fuel was no longer available. so that's the biggest trouble causing these issues. so tepco is trying to bring new cable from the tohoku electric power company's power transmission lines and they are going to replace the power transmission panels and at number one and number two reactors, they are going to restore and install necessary facilities by the end of the day. these are the fire engines on stand by to go to the plant. these fire engines seem to belong to the tokyo fire department. they are going to discharge water at the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant. as far as we can see on the screen, there are about ten fire engines standing by here. they are going to discuss safety measures with tepc

the fukushima office of the tokyo electric power company, the operator of the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant says no abnormalities or troubles have been report sod far. >>> the death toll from the march 11th quake and tsunami has risen to 9,300. the national police agency says 9,301 deaths have been confirmed and 13,700 people are unaccounted for, including those who were swept away by the massive tsunami. search efforts are hampered by debris and severed roads. over 220,000 people are in emergency shelters around the country. in the three worst hit prefectures, miyagi, i wait and fukushima, there are 1,000 shelters housing 190,000 people, many evacuees are suffering from shortages of food, water and essentials. on wednesday morning, temperatures in some of the devastated areas plunged to zero degrees celsius. >>> words of encouragement from u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton. she says she is certain that japan will overcome its difficulties and make a comeback. >> it's been inspiring to see how the japanese people have responded under the most difficult of historic experiences. i have

> traces of plutonium have been detected in soil samples from the compounds of the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant. the operator of the plant, tokyo electric power company, says the level detected is very low and does not pose a threat to human health. the government said it will conduct further monitoring to see its possible effects. >> translator: concentration of the detected plutonium is comparable to the environmental fallo fallout, it is comparable to the level that will be found in our environment. however, if you look at the types of plutonium, the composition is different from the general fallout. because of this we believe this plutonium is likely to come from the reactor. higher level of plutonium, we need to take additional measures, so our intention for now is to continue on with the monitoring on the site. >>> chief cabinet secretary edano also said the fact that plutonium was detected proves that fuel rods had temporarily melted down in the reactor and that this is a grave situation. he said the government is making all-out efforts to prevent further possible effects in the surround

power company continued to survey. >>> tokyo electric power company has resumed work to bring electricity to the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant as part of efforts to regain cooling functions. by monday workers had attached power cables to all six reactors, but with the number three and number four reactors still being sprayed with water monday it may be some time before the electricity can be switched on. >> translator: we are now joined by nuclear expert showita iwata of the university of tokyo. thank you very much for coming. first of all, what is the progress to -- of the effort to restore power? well, yesterday we've seen smoke. we still need to be very careful. some events still continue. however, generally speaking, the direction of the events are that we are -- things are becoming under control. the biggest difference we have from chernobyl is that the chain reaction shut down immediately after the event. therefore, it is not going to be a major accident, as we have seen in chernobyl. so temperature and substances are the subjects of control that needs to be controlled, and hoping that we can find solutions to this pro

fukushima nuclear plant. i've been to explosions at the fukushima power plant today so far and following that second one really seriously is a major radiation leak now just recently chief cabinet secretary for japan has been speaking to the press very frequently saying that the radiation levels around the plant have been dropping but following that second explosion they did peak at four hundred times the maximum level. one should be exposed to over the course of a whole year now so widespread radiation contamination and radiation sickness levels seems. really hyped the warning levels as seem to be around one million so around half there are now but it does seem like the radiation levels are decreasing however the number of foreign news crews i've been to today and a number of experts unfortunately can you think they don't believe what the japanese government is saying the general wisdom is. from those who live here and live in it for a number of years and what they're saying is they don't really trust the information they received they think we're reading through the light reading between the lines and from wh

fukushima threat comes as a number of e.u. countries have been increasing their nuclear capacity as a way out of dependence on foreign oil and natural gas shipments. as updates about the ongoing struggle at the fukushima power plantscontinue to flood in, concern is growing in europe. especially in the nations traditionally opposed to nuclear power. >> the talks heated up quickly. we have to test how resilient they are to earthquakes and how their coating systems function. what about the reactors at the show and electricity generators and so on? >> nuclear power has seen a reemergence and finland has already approved the construction of new stations. 30% of the european union's total energy needs are covered by nuclear power. france is europe's nuclear giant. 70% of its electricity comes from nuclear power. that may explain the french government's guarded reaction to the events in japan.at the moment we don't hae the information we need to form a clear picture. >> france is also hosting the e.u.'s most ambush tious and expensive nuclear project to date. work is underway on an experimental fusion reactor. the european commission is pumping $7 billion into the project, but now may have to reconsider. let's move on to

the situation at the fukushima number 1 nuclear power plant. please listen to my message calmly. the fukushima nuclear power plant, as has been explained so far, after the earthquake and tsunami the nuclear reactors have shut down, and ordinarily the emergency diesel engines that should have been used to cool down the reactors have all gone out of function. every possible method has been used to cool down the reactor. however, for reactor number 1 and reactor number 3 hydrogen came out, causing a hydrogen explosion. and also for reactor 4 we have seen fire. and radiation has spread from these reactors and the reading of the level seems very high. and there is still a very high risk of further radioactive material coming out from the fukushima number 1 nuclear power pla plant. a 20-kilometer radius has become an area for evacuation. most of the people have evacuated from this area we need now for everybody to move out of the 20-kilometer radius from the number one plant. and in areas from 20 to 30 kilometers from the power plant, depending on what happens at the power plant, we wou

to the russian academy of sciences we are talking about the the nuclear disaster in japan i mean the fukushima power nuclear power plant that is worrying many many people thousands of people hundreds of thousands around the world thinking what's going to happen next after the blasts caused by that earthquake actually twenty five years ago after the true novel disaster sorrow anti-nuclear feelings have returned following events at the fukushima power plant in japan spotlights you know the need of that as more. the worst nuclear accident in history the nine hundred eighty six turn not go disaster resulted in the significant truly saw of radioactivity into the atmosphere twenty eight emergency workers died of radiation poisoning and hundreds of others faced serious health problems the poisonous cloud from the plant eventually spread over large parts of europe a catastrophe raised concerns about the safety of the nuclear power industry the feeling was so strong that for many years after the true novel disaster nuclear power was out of the question for many countries however worries about climate change have seen a shift in

to a nuclear meltdown but to cool be overheating reactors at the tsunami damaged fukushima power plant but it's bringing no immediate success and has led to fears the scale of the disaster is being downplayed. and the head of the u.n. and nuclear watchdog finally heads to japan in which criticism the atomic agency has failed to get on top of the crisis. unfolding the fukushima disaster could disability damage the image and the bank account the u.s. funds are designed to station in two years already rethinking its business dealings with general electric. and in libya pro-government forces regain a mole ground from rebels russia is pushing for a u.n. cease fire resolution after declaring colonel gadhafi persona non grata. all next year on our program spotlight focuses on how people around the world are growing slightly more apprehensive about nuclear energy certainly in the light of japan's disaster. hello again oh welcome to spotlight the interview show on our teeth i would love and today me and my guests will discuss what people call the true novel sin. following the explosions on the

as the core of reaction about three of the fukushima nuclear power plant may have been damaged the country is now expanding the voluntary evacuation zone around the site saying the area is receiving a year's dose of radiation per day. as the latest from japan. it's been exactly two weeks since an earthquake and then a tsunami devastated the fukushima nuclear power plant out unfortunately the engineers still haven't been able to neutralize the threat we have received news that the integrity of one of the cause of the reactors has been compromised meaning that radiation cannot possibly leak out this is a troublesome reactor number three this is a reactor which operates on plutonium it's also the reactor which i mentioned smoke over the past few days perhaps these are early indicators of what has just been reported as well in connection with these events attract the three workers at the other reactors have also pulled back there has been a loss of control was the to the dangers which are posed that if people thought outside the station as soon as the accident took place the government is trea

media to fear of a third blast of the fukushima nuclear power plant have abated after steve was pointing to an unstable reacted to cool it down to its systems failed eleven people were injured on monday morning in a second blast obviously to see prince friday for devotees make. two pounds and people have. piles of still missing more but a hundred aftershocks of the magnitude of by hit japan since friday that make a quake rescue service is stretched the limits are around the country. emergency officials are on high alert as a russian spy raised in fact early in the region close to japan's pulled are concerned about the threat of nuclear contamination. japan's economy is such a suffer significant losses after being hit by one of the worst earthquakes in its history more in business in twenty minutes. the news libya's rebels and losing ground as colonel gadhafi forces push through your position the stronghold in the east but with no plan of action allied constant struggle local c b n c they're rare instance. a very warm welcome to you this is are you live from moscow with me alice heard the

nuclear watch dog has decided to dispatch marine environment experts to fukushima to analyze sea water surrounding the troubled nuclear power plant. >> the situation remains very serious. it continues to be very serious. iaea is doing everything in por to help japan. >> a meeting of the international atomic energy agency in vienna wednesday agreed to spend the experts from the marine environmental laboratory in monaco this week. the decision follows a request by the japanese government. the iaea already sent 15 experts to japan to measure radiation levels in the air, food and soil in fukushima and the tokyo metropolitan area. it says it will provide more people as requested by the japanese government to examine the effects of the radiation leak. ai uchida is in studio to give us latest in business news. >> welcome to "newsline" business. tokyo stocks are hovering in a narrow range on thursday morning. investors are holding back from active trading to keep an eye on the impact of the recent disaster on corporate earnings. the nikkei ended the morning session at 9705, nearly unchanged from wednesday's close, with a loss of just 2 p

attention was focused for most of the day on an explosion at the fukushima nuclear power plant where officials say the containment vessel is intact with no imminent threat of a meltdown. sea water is being pump in to cool the core and an engineer was declared tonight at another reactor nearby. celia hatten is there with more on that part of the story. >> reporter: at the fukushima nuclear complex, radioactive smoke billowing from one react reactor, the power outage at another, has some japanese call this japan's chernobyl. the blast at unit 1 destroyed the outer container when the cooling system failed after workers released radioactive steam to ease the pressure. four workers were injured. japanese officials said an electricity out annual early sunday morning at another reactor in the same complex, unit 3, caused another emergency. without power, the cooling system failed. workers are trying to restore power and prevent the worst case, a meltdown. japan's nuclear safety agency is saying more than 100 people could have been exposed to radiation. but japan's prime minister, naoto kan,

fears grow of a meltdown at the fukushima nuclear power plant in japan after a second explosion at the damaged facility. fuel rods and another reactor in fukushima are the u.n. regular agency says no chain reaction is taking place there. japanese engineers are stepping up efforts to prevent a meltdown at the nuclear power plant damaged in last friday's earthquake. the fukushima plant has been hit by two explosions. the latest happened early on monday. rapidly falling water levels have exposed fuel rods in another reactor, increasing the risk of a core meltdown. >> it's the third day of japan's nuclear crisis, and the situation at the fukushima power plant remains critical. now there has been a second explosion there. aerial footage shows two damaged reactor structures. a surveillance camera captured the moment of the blast which blew apart the concrete building surrending the number three reactor. the japanese government says this was a hydrogen explosion. >> we assume that there was a similar explosion at the third reactor as the one that occurred at the first reactor. at this point,

nuclear situation in japan goes from bad to worse. spike in radiation levels means the withdraw from the fukushima power plant. while the japanese government insists there's no immediate danger of a questionable track record of telling the truth about nuclear problems means that not everyone is. also. government forces in libya will be taking even more land from the rebels most countries in the international community are against the no fly zone for the united states it's just. it without the life or more so we're just. looking to the program while japan it may be losing control i think fukushima nuclear power plant after radiation levels many times to stabilize the situation to stop the government's top spokesman said that one of the reactors key containment vessels is feared to have broken and radioactive material has leaked out the authorities had earlier been using military helicopters to drop water reactor water commission i don't. says many people are trying to flee from areas facing immediate danger. there's a bubbling undercurrent of anxiety and fear and it's a different kind of fear now because we're a

nuclear meltdown fears are growing in japan. the fukushima power plant under not just reactors at risk of fire and explosion were used to fuel rods are held its . forces say radiation levels near one of the reactors are now dangerous to human health with reports of one of the key containment levels protecting one of the reactors has been damaged around two hundred thousand people have now been evacuated from the surrounding area. four g.'s have been for nearly two thousand five hundred people dead so far more than a three thousand that are missing from the quake and devastating tsunami that hit northeast japan on. countries around the world all to help egypt hit by natural and manmade catastrophes some experts say this is another example of how the mankind's on able to handle the progress of science and the oil in the gulf of mexico action i'll call. a very warm welcome to you this is also a life from with me alice said that japan's prime minister has addressed the nation is fears intensify about a possible nuclear disaster as a power plant struck by las

top stories smart meltdown fears grow after fuel rods are exposed in fukushima nuclear power plant in japan despite the ongoing efforts to cool the reactor using siebel. the human cost of the devastation in japan is being felt with almost two thousand people confirmed dead following friday's make a quake and tsunami rescue teams from several countries including russia are helping search for an estimated fifteen thousand still missing. and in other news with gadhafi forces and simply remaining on the ground in eastern libya concerns grow but what's next for three their brothers will be community takes over the country again. i'll be back with the latest from japan in about fifteen minutes time sport now though units got the latest for you. thanks kevin barry welcome to sports today here on twenty four hour at sea i'm you know many of our headlines this hour. points of interest of course to settle for a one one draw with sylvia meeting after the weekend they lead rivals real madrid by just five points off the top of the. american dream nick watney secure is his biggest win of his career

at this hour at least four people have been injured following an explosion at the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant in japan the roof of the reactor collapse of the extent of the damages on no but they're on fears of a possible meltdown if only as friday's record eight point nine magnitude quake and resulting tsunami difference the number of deaths in japan stands at more than seven hundred reports claiming thousands on the set. of our welcome to you this is aussie live from moscow well first it was one of the world's strongest earthquake then a devastating tsunami now japan faces a nuclear catastrophe an explosion at the fukushima power plant means it's now facing complete meltdown he's either bennett has the latest from take a. here here now is the spread of radiation in the atmosphere and. these concerns is that why not one nuclear reactor but to now be evacuation area area around a second nuclear reactor number two has been extended to ten kilometers that reactor has been under a state of emergency for the last few hours because since the cooling system was knocked out after the earthquake the

the grid of all nuclear situation in japan goes from bad to worse there's a sudden spike in radiation levels i mean start for we've drawn from this struck in fukushima power plant. and all the japanese valves and since there's no immediate danger to transcribe all of telling the truth about cough nuclear problems means not everyone is convinced. also japan's nuclear concerns would stop a whole agency for a region on that for the whole album that could reach far and wide and leave its mark in years to come. and japanese shares with foundation sharply on wednesday after two consecutive days of the with the nikkei finishing up five point seven percent probably more like. government forces in libya will be taking even more lands on the rebels most countries in the international community are against imposing a no fly zone to the united nations is statements discussed it's. a very warm welcome to you this is our live from moscow now japan may be losing control of the fukushima nuclear power plant after a rise in radiation levels but attempts to stabilize the situation has been halted with the government's top spokesman said one of the key reactors containment vessel

critical work has reportedly been suspended in one of the reactors in japan's fukushima nuclear power plant as the radioactive threat skyrockets the fallout has apparently reached the nearby coast where the radiation levels in the sea now a thousand times higher than. those are top stories here but up next is the latest in our special series of go out with martin and he's not in the russian capital this time but he's in paris exploring the centuries long relationship between both cities and countries. hello or should i say home saw welcome to iris the riskiest have a strong relationship with frogs for centuries well in this race program of exploring the french capital taking a look at recent life history and culture. take a simple walk along the river saying today and you definitely hear the sound of excited russian tourists they devour the social scene here with its classical entertainments here consisting of ballet opera and all that it's easy to drool several comparisons to the grand jury of moscow. russians have been fascinated with french culture for centuries. explore the busy streets

prime minister's statement that a substantial amount of radiation was leaking from the fukushima nuclear power plant. and as a sea of red in europe on the back of panic selling that swept across tokyo in the aftermath of another explosion at the troubled fukushima nuclear power. frank has doubts the slumping more than five percent of the fitzy is not part behind with a two point seven percent loss this hour and here in russia both the r.t.s. in the minds of have been have begun tracking global losses after largely ignoring the chip these prices and monday energy shares are losing ground on decreasing oil prices let's now have a look at some individual share moves most banking shares are down those who are buying friend feed should be leading the fall both down the road three percent on my sets the trend just rules to nickel slightly are on the softer russian special holding mittal invest so the plans to buy shares in russia's largest nickel mining company. that's not the business bulletin join me in less than one asked for more business news. down here for sure t r we can use your body for one pod t

biggest gains have been posted by the shares most hit by the nuclear crisis tokyo electric power which operates the damaged fukushima plant jumped around sixteen percent and toshiba which has a role in building nuclear plants added more than eleven for a set here in russia stocks are lower this hour after posting modest gains at open on tuesday losing forty one per cent to my sex shutting around three quarters of a percent most of the blue chips lower with norilsk nickel and ross telecoms gallo around one percent looking ahead to how the russian markets are not markets are likely to perform in the near future michael stein from believes equities here are still offering a good value. given the increase in risk aversion and the increasing volatility that we've seen that investors are more most likely going to take cues from what's happening with western markets with a focus on what's happening in japan and also what's with what's happening in libya that said the russian equities are mean very cheap especially given the elevated oil prices that we have out there we think in the medium term you're going to see a strong perfor

despite the or thora these claims there are of having the situation under control the fukushima nuclear power plant has already seen explosions and that's despite advanced safety systems which the chernobyl reactor never had been we look towards the earthquake reaction was completely false he means. the reactors happened to be pretty and this is very an exception. i mean. if you see the decent interest that such a situation is unfolding in one of the world's most technologically advanced countries has heightened the sense of alarm internationally but some experts say one should look into how the japanese have been dealing with nuclear physics to get clues as to their continuing difficulties in dealing with a disaster so that technology is dead he told. the society the government regulators believe that the technology can be operated safely but there's a built in psychological complacency if you're operating something that's so inherently dangerous when you go to work every day do you keep thinking about how dangerous that technology is that would be over time rather damaging psychologically so in o

forty two and it is rising tonight perhaps was worrying now is the damage caused by the fukushima nuclear power plant the plant that lies about one hundred seventy miles that's two hundred seventy kilometers northeast of tokyo the tokyo electric power company reportedly saying tonight that pressure inside the reactor there one of those containment vessels is rising and there is a risk of a radiation leak a meantime the city of sendai has suffered most in this disaster with the worst of the death toll in casualties the fear that perhaps thousands of people could have perished today there's a major search and rescue operation under way involving military planes and ships we will bring you up to date on the situation in japan as it develops here in the arts international. there in. the universe and to give you the radio in the in the simone member of the bicycles and his spirit is there are. more used the engines. believe that exists in the region. also because the group in the vicinity of known differentiated so produces so much and so many changes in moving the pantsuit leukemia. my view out of the im

headlines for you it's not the fuel rods of the second reactor at the fukushima nuclear power plant in japan have been fully exposed for over two hours now officials report leading to fears of a meltdown about some reports so that attempts to cool the reactor using seymour to have also resumed. and the human cost of the devastation in japan is being felt with almost two thousand people confirmed dead following friday's mega quake and tsunami rescue teams from several countries including russia are helping search for an estimated fifty thousand still missing. and in other news we could duffy's forces they were gaining ground in the east of libya concerns grow over what's next if the leader condemned by the global community takes over the country once again. how about the latest news from japan in about fifteen minutes time it's talk sport now though and it's the only weekend of the a russian premier league season you know the next is for you. thanks karen great to have you with us this is sports today i mean you know neal these are some of the stories we're covering at this very hour. s

close to pam resumes efforts to stabilize the down its reactors at the fukushima nuclear power plant after work was suspended and probably unexplained smoking that's. also belgium is frozen river out of government as a dispute between two major ethnic communities continues fueling experts directions that the earth could spread across the rest of europe. now as japan struggles to regain control over the fukushima nuclear plant hit by the recent earthquake experts from around the world are debating the future of atomic energy r.t. talked to one of russia's leading scientists in the industry about the challenges it's now facing. the past nuclear disaster continue sending shock waves throughout the globe is that the patient that we are now joined by one of fascist leading nuclear experts get us off strong thank you very much for your time sir now many experts have already it compared the focus. to the chernobyl past how proper of this comparison it is in new york. in my opinion the entire atomic energy community and leaves there will not be a global catastrophe global background radiatio

engineers have been able to resume their efforts to connect power to older reactors at the fukushima nuclear power plant yesterday these efforts had to be stopped after smoke started billowing out of two of the reactors as soon as the power is reconnected several more starts to have to be taken with eventually the engineers are hoping that the water cooling systems will be able to be reactivated otherwise the focus has shifted to the impact of the radiation which has already been released the thirty's are saying that in some of there is around the plant the radiation levels are one thousand six hundred times higher than the should be normally villages in the settlements have been told not to drink that water because it contains possible radioactive elements instead they're being given bottled water there's also suspicion that some there marine life around the plant has been poisoned as well and that may pose some sort of risk to the fisheries we also heard scares over the weekend and afterwards i recall chal produce from that area may be contaminated as well now the thirty's are saying that the levels a

prime minister statements that are substantial amount of radiation was leaking from the fukushima nuclear power plant. its best sea of red in europe on the back of an exulting that swept across tokyo in the aftermath of another explosion at the troubled for the sheema nuclear plant frankest texas regaining some losses and large time trading but is still losing just over four percent and would say is now. car behind down two percent the south. and here in russia both the r.t.s. and the miles itself the government tracking global also soft and largely ignoring the japanese crisis on monday energy shares and losing ground on decreasing oil prices let's have a look at some individual show moves most banking shares are down bulls burbank and peter would be leading the full both are down the last three percent on the mite so it's bucking the trend as draws clinical around two percent of the r.t.s. that's after a russian metal holding metal you first started close to buy shares in russia's largest nickel mining company. and in order to support the japanese financial system the country's central bank says it

at this time when the wall there is watching with near the developments of japan's fukushima nuclear power plant experts say comparisons and examples in the past so maybe help foresee the future analysts tell us it's not yet sure not all but very comparable to another tragic accident which occurred in the united states in nineteen seventy nine i p three mile island power plant which is part of the state of pennsylvania and now i'm joined by take storm burke who was the governor of pennsylvania at the time sir thank you so much for joining us thank you guy and well first of all what do you think about the comparison but there's an. eerie similarity between what's happening in japan today and what happened in pennsylvania in one nine hundred seventy nine. there are obviously differences because we didn't have to deal with a record earthquake or aftershocks or following tsunami but the technical challenges are pretty much the same so what happened to this three mile island was a partial core of meltdown in one of the reactors how bad were the consequences back then at the time i we had no sense of

nuclear meltdown fears grow in japan after another blast of the fukushima power plant and it's not just reactors that respond to our fire an explosion way huge a fuel rolled so on balance. will force you say radiation levels near one of the reactors are dangerous to human health reports one of the new containment levels protecting one of the reactors has been down and around seem to be callous and. up an evacuation from the surrounding area. i will force you to have confirmed nearly two thousand five hundred people dead so far and more than seventeen thousand are the so called quake and devastating tsunami that hit northeastern japan on friday. countries around the world all the help to japan is by natural and manmade catastrophes some experts say this is another example of how mankind are unable to have been for progress in science sizing the oil spill in the gulf of mexico and turning up. a very well conceived this is our sea life from moscow i know i said it's japan's prime minister has addressed the nation is fears intensified about a possible nuclear power plant strong ai last frid

ready to hide fearing an invisible killer radiation explosions at the fukushima daiichi power plant could the country on the cusp of nuclear meltdown one damage to react without a casing and a final two reactors have now lost cooling capability to radiation levels peaks near the plants at four hundred times the amount normally absorbed in a year if it is it will spread across the country. it's the same information and footage being broadcast on every channel you have just a guess many things for them and other places you can get them in the japanese sources there's some very steep censorship which doesn't lead as understand the true picture and that's not helping. residents prepared to go to ground for news crews of fleeing this team from new zealand is heading finegan to airport but flights from there to sucker in tokyo are already fully booked for the next two days the exodus as the gun here on the west coast. has already closed. turning up get on the next available flight out of the country such as desperation to escape. we have to wait until morning to get the next flight to hardwire of what we have to wait outside but

fukushima power plant the fire is said to have damaged an area used to store spent nuclear fuel the course that or suffer struggling to cool it down and situation at all six reactors is said to be critical after the only two remaining cooling systems failed following the devastating quake and tsunami the blast facility number two which occurred this morning has reportedly dunnage the vessel. all of the reactor stoking fears of a nuclear meltdown which were already high since the explosions began the company that owns the plant has reportedly withdrawn over seven hundred workers leaving only fifty to deal with the disaster engineers have been using its sea water to cool the reactors in an attempt to avert a nuclear disaster but things are better reports from outside the danger zone. it seems like the whole of their entire nation is gripped by this situation at once very nervous and it could tear we're on the cusp of a nuclear catastrophe it could get into and absolute disaster in no one really knows which way to turn because following before the explosion earlier today over overall same exp

video footage taken about 20 minutes ago at the fukushima daiichi power plant that smoke is billowing from the power plant fukushima daiichi there. all i nuclear four at the number four building was dmept a storage pool when friday's quake hit the plant. we are talking about the number four reactor building at the moment, but we don't know where the smoke is coming from as of yet. we talking about what's happening since yesterday. the tremors stopped water circulation at number four reactor building. that is needed to cool the facility down and the company says the temperature of the pool has climbed to 84 degrees celsius, double the normal level. it says the water level in the pool may have dropped if the fuel rods are not fully submerged. there is a risk they will melt releasing radioactive substances. you are looking now at the footage taken by nhk helicopter about a half hour ago at the fukushima daiichi power plant. you can see that smoke is billowing from the power plant, from the fukushima daiichi power plant. we do not know which reactor it is coming from, but there were explosions coming from number one, number three and number four r

to japan now where the countryside is the core of reactions three of the fukushima nuclear power plant may have been damaged the operation there has been suspended as a development could lead to further radiation leaks are just the latest from japan . it's been exactly two weeks since an earthquake then a powerful tsunami devastated the fukushima nuclear power plant and japanese engineers still haven't been able to neutralize the threat we have received news that the integrity of one of the cause of the reactors has been compromised meaning that radiation cannot possibly leak out this is a troublesome reactor number three this is a reactor which operates on plutonium it's also the reactor which emitted smoke over the past few days perhaps these were early indicators of what has just been reported as well there has been a lot of controversy about the exact danger which is close to the people for outside the plant the government immediately after the accident instituted a twenty kilometer evacuation zone now they're planning to extend this to thirty kilometer evacuation zone they're sayi

and critical workers temporarily suspended one of the reactors in japan's fukushima nuclear power plant as radiation levels skyrocket. to live from moscow this saturday where it's twelve noon our top story the libyan health ministry claims at least one hundred fourteen people were killed in the first four days of the coalition's week long series of airstrikes report comes as nato gears up to replace the u.s. leading the campaign aimed at protecting civilians archies polls in tripoli were explosions were heard throughout the night. it was quite difficult getting here to this live position a woman has just stormed into the hotel where we're staying she's crying hysterically she says that she has just escaped from prison where she was badly beaten by gadhafi is made and now we have been hearing stories like this for the last two three weeks but it is quite unusual that someone's actually been able to have access to the foreign media we now understand that the security is trying to take her away so that we will not have direct access to her story in the early hours of today saturday they we

nuclear situation has taken another dark turn today after a second explosion rocked the fukushima nuclear power plant some one hundred fifty miles north of tokyo now the reactors are said to be intact but reports say that the nuclear fuel rods are now completely exposed and officials are warning that radioactive material could spread over the next several weeks they're going to pay and learn anything at all from the one nine hundred seventy nine three mile island nuclear accident in pennsylvania well who better to ask and then the man who handled that disaster himself former governor and u.s. attorney general dick thornburgh they think you so much for being here now there must be some sense of deja vu as you look at the stunning pictures coming out of byrd to pay. there there is a eerie kind of. correspondence between what's happening in japan and what we had to deal with three mile island in one nine hundred seventy nine technical challenges very cynical we want to bring the reactor to a cold shutdown and we want to prevent the leak of radioactive material and sounds easy but it's tensely difficult

mass i have earthquake and tsunami hit northeastern japan causing heavy damage to the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant. workers at the plant have to deal with high radiation levels as efforts to restart cooling systems in the athe reactor buildings. on thursday, three workers were take on the the hospital after being exposed to a high level of radiation. two of the men could be suffering from so-called beta burns. they are similar to regular burns but it could be several weeks before their severity and complications are known. the workers were standing on a flooded basement floor when they tried to reconnect power lines in the turbine building next to the number three reactor building. the radiation level on the surface of the water was 400 millisieverts. the maximum level of radiation exposure allowed for nuclear plant workers in japan is 100 millisieverts, but a health and labor ministry has recently raised the limit to 250 millisieverts for emergency crews at the fukushima plant. >>> translator: presuming the radiation level will be low enough the night of 24th, the workers did not realize the chan

nuclear situation has taken another dark turn today after a second explosion rocked the fukushima nuclear power plant some one hundred fifty miles north of tokyo now the reactors are said to be intact but reports say that the nuclear fuel rods are now completely exposed and officials are warning that the radioactive material could spread over the next several weeks so what is so can japan learn anything at all from the one nine hundred seventy nine three mile island nuclear disaster here in pennsylvania well who better to ask than the man who handled battles aster himself earlier i spoke to former governor and u.s. attorney general dick thornburgh and here's part of our conversation. technical challenges very simple you want to bring the reactor to a cold shutdown and you want to prevent the leak of radioactive material and sounds easy but it's tensely difficult as we're seeing in japan now how do you deal with myriad of information that's coming out in crisis like this i mean you have experts coming out of the woodwork pretending to know x. y. and z. about this you have media reports how does the go

the nuclear and industrial safety agency says that steam was rising from the four reactors as of 10:00 a.m. and that all of it was colorless. at the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant, work to cool down the storage pool after reactor building has been resumed. on wednesday, black smoke was seen rising from the number 3 reactor building. for safety reasons, work was suspended on restoring the cooling systems of reactor buildings one through four. the nuclear and industrial safety agency says at five 5:35 a.m. on thursday, the black smoke could no longer be seen. >> about the spent fuel pool on march 23rd, from 11:03 to 13:20, we injected about 35 tons of sea water to cool. and in addition, on today starting from 5:35 a.m., we are right now injecting 500 tons of water, sea water. and we have started this operation. regarding the number 3 reactor, for the reactor core, we have been using sea water to pour in -- we have been pouring in sea water but we intend to start pumping in fresh water, and that is expected to start today, using a pump that will be activated. >>> the agency said on wednesday the radiation level near the reactor building had not changed since the s

comes from nearby villages, not from the area around the fukushima nuclear power plant. they are running low on food supplies. medical teams are on board, but considering what's happening to their village, they're going to need a lot of counseling, too. japanese soldiers deliver much-needed clean water to more than 1200 people taking refuge. their village was torn up and taken away by the tsunami. japanese police say the official death toll from the earthquake and tsunami two weeks ago has topped 10,000. with more than 17,000 listed as missing. "my house is near the ocean" she says, "the tsunami washed it away. my grandfather, my grandmother, and my dog are still missing." . she's among a quarter of a million people now living in shelters since the disaster. the number's gone down in the past two weeks. many survivors have left to live with family members. some elderly people who survived the initial disaster died in the days after from the bitter cold or lack of medication. conditions have improved dramatically over the past few days. but although they have shelter and

nuclear crises playing their country. experts are said to be exchanging information with the fukushima power plant and with government agencies. >> reporter: some progress at the damaged fukushima nuclear power plant. workers connected an external power cord to the facility, the goal is to revive cooling pumps. fire trucks are also spraying water on the units in an attempt to prevent overheating. officials retroactively raised the level to a level five. test flights show the worst contamination has not spread since the 19--mile evacuation zone. at this emergency shelter, 500 survivors have sought refuge 130 miles from the plant. many here are evacuees from villages around the nuclear site and hope they are far enough away to be safe. evacuees received three hot meals and medical attention, among a sea of blankets, a tiny square marks the space they have. "i wish i had taken more photo albums, she says." an 88-year-old, who has seen a lifetime of earthquakes said she thought the world was coming to an end. right after the tsunami hit, she got in her car and barely escaped the waves, she said i thought i was going to die. nobod

this morning, workers were evacuated from the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant.g huge economic aftershocks. the supply of manufactured goods and parts to the u.s. has been disrupted, and that's causing shortages and costing american jobs. manuel gallegus reports. >> reporter: it's an economic jolt from japan's quake here at home. 900 workers at this gm plant in louisiana are out of a job indefinitely, because the trucks they build use electronics from japan, and the quake has halted supply. most of japan's car factories were not directly damaged in the disaster. but honda, mazda, mitsubishi and toyota have all had to stop production. rolling blackouts are making power unreliable. honda says a third of its 110 suppliers are shut down. and much of the country is in no condition to get parts moving again soon. truck driver dennis upcraft delivers japanese cars from the port in long beach, california. images like these have him worried. >> after seeing what happened on the tv, and actually seeing the cars that i deliver get ruined, and talking with the people at the

meantime at walt patterson a nuclear physicist and associate fellow at chatham house he believes that the crisis at the fukushima power plant will have long lasting effects for the global nuclear industry this interview is coming up next hour but for now here's a preview. there's been quite a substantial body of opinion in japan including among sees mol adjusts but building nuclear plants anywhere in japan is not a good idea my personal feeling is that building nuclear plants anywhere is not a good idea for basically economic reasons they are very expensive they tend to be unreliable they are a kind of electricity which is very inflexible and difficult for an electricity system to use because you could lose a thousand megawatts in two minutes and in recent years of course that has been the major controversy about nuclear power investment all over the world private investors do not want to spend money on nuclear plants for quite understandable reasons they don't think you could get their money back but now the safety issue has come back again and that will complicate things even further. and that interview is coming your way

at this hour at least four people have been injured fall going to explosion at the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant in japan the roof of the reactor has collapsed and residents living within a ten kilometer radius are being evacuated but the extent of the damage is known but there are fears of a possible meltdown this follows friday's record even point nine magnitude earthquake and resulting massive tsunami well the official number of deaths in japan currently stands at more than seven hundred reports claiming thousands are missing. or watching our team and our continuing coverage of the events unfolding in japan well first it was one of the world's strongest earthquakes eight point nine on the richter scale then a devastating tsunami and now japan faces a nuclear catastrophe well an explosion has been confirmed at. our plants and it's now means that it is facing a complete meltdown bennett's has the latest from tokyo. the roof of the reactor has actually collapsed and that's again suggesting that has been this explosion we've seen the pictures the explosion it's very powerful there that plume of s

horrific events in japan which are still unfolding especially with this blast at the fukushima one nuclear power plants and reports of possible nuclear contamination in the entire region but at the moment russia's emergencies ministry has prepared a six jets to deliver rescuers a doctors medical equipment a mobile hospital to japan all is needed at the moment is a request from japanese authorities these jets have been on standby since friday on the personal order of the russian president has also ordered all a local emergency services and rescue services in russia's far east in the region especially on the cool islands which are right bear in japan's neighborhood just located just several miles to the north of japanese to east he ordered everybody to be on high alert and recently to get ready for any type of scenario when it comes to dealing with disasters russia does have experience both in dealing with earthquakes if we talk about cool islands alone they've been hit by earthquakes quite a lot of times before and also moscow has the experience in dealing with a nuclear disasters as well i'm talking ab