well thank you very much for that update ivor bernard tull kill for us. i will of course say it's not just your panel that is on high alert russia's far east which is situated close to japan or it is to the north of japan may potentially be affected by any radiation if it does leak the artes correspondent is joining us live from the region effectively you know search over here for us i think will just tell us oh well salim is quite close so how are people reacting to these initial reports. tell us that we are in the not in the immediate proximity but this is the part of russia which is the closest to japan and which is the closest to. the place where the nuclear power plant tragedy is now unfolding and it's not quite clear what the consequences of a possible potential cattlemen contamination could be and despite local authorities are reporting that residents remain calm and business goes around as usual here in the city of usual supply lines which is the capital of the region that includes it's a highly income trap and the coral islands it seems however t

from the supply region and our correspondent in japan ivor that it is standing by that hello there ivor can you hear us now. oh yeah all right great. ok i'll just. try actually we're now heading straight for all the foreign journalists journalists can cross wanting. to break and get. out of here because of the very real now. of a nuclear meltdown at the fukushima plant and a major radiation leak the whole country already here. in tokyo they've measured small amounts of just substance in the french embassy has warned that. radiation couldn't hit you in ten hours and that three hundred kilometers south of the. sun and so. we've come across heading for the exit now we're doing very unwise to stick around. and this morning it was plan. previously in fact we had the latest was that a source of reactor number four which is used to house used fuel rods and what's significant about is. normally a reactor and seventy fuel rods which contain radioactive substances this one hundred seven hundred eighty three for the greater potential of a serious radiation leak managed to put the fire out right no

rocked by its worst ever post-war disaster that's left thousands of people dead or missing or he's ivor bennett has more. right now they're still trying to reconnect power to the site so they can get those cooling systems up and running and bring the temperature down inside the reactor seems like the only way they're now going to prevent or could be a real nuclear disaster now focusing on reactor number two because this morning they actually saw smoke rising from the reactor they don't know what the cause was of but they don't think it was an explosion because that wasn't heard clearly the temperature inside is very hot sauce they've already managed to do was to lay a power cable from the main bridge a kilometer long cable to try and restore power but they haven't managed to connect there are yet the radiation is very high still and also the outer casing of the reactor the containment vessel was badly damaged in the explosion that happened earlier this week now in the meantime they are trying everything they can to try and keep the temperature down trying to cool the reactors there. but

who is in a moscow for us hi there again ivor can you just give us the latest from tokyo. as you said there the latest is that they've said that the roof the roof of the reactor has actually collapsed and that's again suggesting that there has been this explosion we've seen the pictures the explosion it's very powerful there that plume of smoke is rising into the sky and also we've heard that one of the four walls of the reactor has also collapsed now the government is clearly worried that of the potential new chance a nuclear meltdown may outgrow a reactor so they've just issued a. warning in advice to people if they are in the area in a facility to cover their mouth and nose so as to not. inhale any of the radioactive particles also they should cover up any exposed skin and then tap water as well at the moment such is that level of precaution here another report just been issued on japanese television is that. officials measure the level of radiation at the entrance of the plant about two and a half hours ago and they said that if you spend an hour there and you it's rec

earthquake triggering a tsunami and a disaster that left thousands of people dead or missing or he's ivor bennett has more from japan so what's the latest in the happening at the nuclear facility. well right now they're still trying to reconnect power to the site so they can get those cooling systems up and running and bring the temperature down inside the reactors that seems like the only way they're now going to prevent what could be a real nuclear disaster now focusing on reactor number two because this warning about actually saw smoke rising from the reactor they don't know what the cause cause was about i don't think it was an explosion because that wasn't heard but this clearly the temperature inside is very hot sauce they've already managed to do that was yesterday afternoon was to lay a power cable from the main cook bridge a kilometer long cable. to try and restore power but they haven't managed to connect it up yet they thought it takes around fifteen hours it's now been about twenty the problems they face is because radiation is very high still and also the out of casing of the

blackout it's all part of the plan to keep the country's crippled electricity grid operational artie's ivor bennett is in sendai one of the tiles worst affected by the huge wave. we don't know the full extent of the damage a second blast in the third reactor the fukushima number one the initial reports are that the the actual reactor three itself the bessel containing the radioactive materials isn't damaged that's what he's. supposed to also. surrounding the reactor has collapsed. and the damaged we don't know how much radiation is. either but it's basically still is intact which he seems to be according to japanese media that it's not the full scale nuclear catastrophe that was. earlier today soon as it was reported on japanese radio. in the taxi i was coming back from the coast. immediately afterwards the advice was to stay inside here in sendai i don't know but i can actually hear this haneke being shown by people lining up for markets one queue we saw at the main market in the center of town with a kilometer long no exaggeration people being queuing up overnight to try and stock up on t

against time to restore the cooling systems to stop the reactors from reaching nuclear meltdown or he's ivor bennett is in japan where people are struggling to come to terms with the destruction from last week's earthquake and tsunami plus the massive loss of life. the japanese nuclear agency has now raised the alert level or the fukushima plant from a four to a five this is on the international scale of nuclear accidents which runs from zero to seven and will be in the only seven in history what a rating of five means is they will have wider consequences so now it's not just considered to be a localized problem i don't know exactly what these consequences will be yet but they raise that they are rated it because two or five because they believe there could be quick damage done to the cause of reactors two and three as for the attempts to call it well they're still ongoing they're trying everything they can at the plant they haven't yet managed to reconnect how they've been trying to do that for the last almost forty eight hours now they have all those through power cable from the main grid

radiation is said to be rising and maybe a series of aftershocks continue to rock the country archy's ivor bennett has the latest from tokyo. actually the city is still shaking you're being a number of aftershocks just this morning event one the last one about twenty minutes ago the whole room was shaking as i walked downstairs the line if things were shaking and it's very hard to actually walk in a straight line you're swaying and injuring a night there and couple of aftershocks so strong in fact that it will be out there and i could actually hear the room creaking and things are falling from the roof outside so the city is still experiencing aftershocks nandan actually inflicting damage on the city now and from what i've seen that this very little surface damage here but the transport infrastructure is definitely still suffering when trying to arrange transport now to sendai to the epicenter where that the quake hit days ago . all the trains none of the trains going to the north of the country they're not working and they're still very unsure of what actual transport links they can run w

ivor what's the latest that you can tell us. the latest news you got here is good news in fact as a government spokesman at the fukushima one power plant has in the last hour or two come out and said that the nuclear reactor there is not damage that was the main fear and in fact the radiation levels there are decreasing since the explosion happened bit earlier today their main fear earlier was that the reactor itself had exploded in xplosion was the damage and if that was the case then radiation would have been leaking and then we would have had nuclear meltdown on our hands and that was actually a major concern until now because radioactive elements cesium and iodine both great actually kulas that were in their reactor they were remnants of those found outside so the fear was that early cooling system a failed the backup generators that also failed and then the reactor itself went into meltdown and started to leak it appears that's not the case now and the radiation levels have also dropped earlier today there were so to be a t

are possible we can all hope for more good news from japan now thanks very much for that perspective ivor bennett life for us and others like. why did your pen fail to predict the sheer size of the most powerful earthquake in its history before it happened already as you're getting rose in from the physics or via earth institute stay with us. it was several negative factors coincided first the japanese are perhaps best equipped in the world against earthquakes as they are living on a continuous seismic hotbed they predicted an earthquake but nobody expected the magna charta nine which is unique and normally not mature age is forecast the difference between eight and nine is a logarithmic scale each digit increment means a ten time increase of energy so nature played a mean joke with them before the eleven march quake a quake on the ninth of march in the same zone was considerably weaker only seven point seven which is still big. they decided the forecast had been fulfilled and they relaxed a much stronger quake occurred soon afterwards. find out what other devastating surprises nature cou

an important breakthrough in efforts to prevent a catastrophe at that tsunami hit facility artie's ivor bennett has the latest. even though they have attached power cables to two reactors reactors one and two there's no guarantee that the cooling systems will actually work because they fear the electronics inside those cooling ponds and they have been damaged in the earth and all the ensuing explosions at those reactors and so what they're doing is not just turning on extras tea just yet because they feel if they do it could mouth function even more in the pumps and they so that in very wary of for starting a power supposed because they really need those plants to work and that's the only realistic way they're going to get the situation under control and the temperatures inside the reactor is that what they're doing in the meantime they're still spraying water into the reactors so go either partment thirteen hours straight two thousand tons of all of the interaction number three but there's only so much that can do because already this evening we've heard that pressure inside reactor nu

well a possible radiation leak from the fukushima nuclear plant remains the biggest concern tonight ivor bennett is in tokyo for r.t. . in the last twenty four hours there have actually been around a hundred aftershocks or over that in fact a powerful one it was centered around fukushima district in fact measuring six on the magnitude scale so quite a large aftershock and this is well over twenty four hours since the initial earthquake and others say this one was centered and it turned out and the focal shima district which is where the new nuclear reactor explosion took place earlier today when he is a potential nuclear fallout we have heard since that there was no damage done in that explosion to the reactor itself if there was and then radiation would have been leaking and that was the initial fear in fact when they found cesium and radioactive iodine on the outside of the syllabus he told her there hasn't been any damage in that explosion to the reactor and radiation levels have since decreased and so much so in fact that. the authorities have been able to release some of the pressur

the sea nearby and they're increasing the government's warning people to get out of the area marty's ivor bennett spoke to a man who knows firsthand what the consequences could be. this man has borne the scars of nuclear disaster for most of his life as a resident of nagasaki you're shiria milwaukee has had liver and kidney problems since he was thirty five and he's already beaten cancer twice every time he falls ill now he feels it could be his last battle your shooter watches events unfold at fukushima fearing the true nature of the disaster is yet to show itself so you are saying that the result of the contamination won't just end of the event it will be handed down from generation to generation i have four daughters the first to have leukemia another has breast cancer but the results of a disaster will be shown in generations to come. you should know was just eleven when the bomb was dropped he survived the blast but was exposed to lethal levels of radiation on his two trips to the hypocenter first to find his father then to bury him despite everything he's pro nuclear power but still

ok well let's go back to our correspondents ivor bennett who is in tokyo for us live or just tell us the latest from where you are on the ground right now. as i just mentioned the latest breaking news here is that the unconfirmed reports that there has been explosion at the nuclear reactor in fukushima daiichi which is owned by the tokyo electronic power company now japanese media would go on television here showing pictures of white smoke coming out from that nuclear power plant and we don't know exactly what the damage is there but there were fears throughout the last few hours that. the power plant was going it's meltdown it's lost its ability to cool and warning now japanese media is in fact saying that radioactivity in the region has risen since the explosion twenty times and the company that runs the plant at tokyo electric electric power company they say that there have been several injuries to their employees but those are thank you very much for that update we will be going back to you throughout the day thank you ira bennett who is in tokyo for us. oh just a recap of what's

survive for more than double that amount and that was even in unseasonably wintry conditions or it is ivor van are reporting there for us from japan now one world renowned earthquake expert has told r.t. why depend failed to predict the sheer size of the most powerful quake in history before it happened. so for several negative titers coincides first the japanese are perhaps best equipped in the world against earthquakes is their living on the continuous seismic hotbed of when they predicted an earthquake but nobody expected the magnitude of knowing which is unique and normally magnitude ages for us to the difference between eight and snowing is a rhythmic scale each digit increment means a ten time increase of energy so that the nature played a mean joke with them before the eleven march quake a quake on the ninth of march in the same zone was considerably weaker only seven point seven truth which is still big a little bit they decided to forecast had been fulfilled didn't they relaxed a much stronger quake occurred soon afterwards we. find out what other devastating surprises nature coul

to interrupt you that's all we've got time for for now thank you very much for that update artie's ivor bennett in sendai. well the emergency services remain on high alert in russia's far eastern region close to northern japan our correspondent kathleen aggression is there for us. the imagines his ministry for the surprise region keeps saying that radiation levels are normal and they have an intensified their checks after they receive the news about the explosion as another reactor in focal shima but what is really worrisome is the change in the weather because what we see now is that the weather is changing dramatically in scenes that we can see now it is it's much better than it was in the early hours of monday but it was snowing how early in the morning there was at the top you could hardly see it some fifty meters from you and it was all sunny on sunday now it is snow everywhere as you can see so it looks like it too cold russian winter in january and these of course is bad news as we had been reporting the full day of the weekend from japan had been going in the direction of the pa

fear for their help their homes their livelihood but how far does this devastation spread artie's ivor bennett is in japan and brings us the latest. this is a town as o.-r. i-a around half way between tokyo and fukushima i'm still one hundred fifty kilometers south of the nuclear power plant but already the radiation levels here over double that of those in tokyo the going to counter i've got just started beeping wildly and shortstops you know point five month receive it's per hour it's not harmful to one's health especially just yet but it is certainly a concern so much so that the army has started to hand out these face masks here but people are wearing you then they're going to make you look very for the radiation you can do much more to it all we can do is follow the media and trust the government. the tsunami did actually come in this story now and with escaped most of the damage however since the earthquake has been without drinking water here in the residents of the common fill up water they need from points like this in the town sets up by the army further up the coast it's a s

nearly impossible as the country tries to recover from the devastating earthquake and tsunami artie's ivor bennett is in japan tonight report. this queue of people is a kilometer long trying to stockpile what food is left in sendai most shelves are empty now the people here are getting ready to hide fearing an invisible killer radiation explosions at the fukushima daiichi power plant the country on the cusp of nuclear meltdown one damaged reactors outer casing and the final two reactors have now lost cooling capability to radiation levels peaks near the plant at four hundred times the amount normally absorbed in a year there are fears it will spread across the country for months unless you come out it's the same information and footage being broadcast on every channel you have just to guess many things for them and other places you can get them in the japanese sources there's some very strict censorship which doesn't let us understand the true picture and that's not helping. residents prepared to go to ground for news crews of fleeing this team from the zealand is heading for the airport b

police believe up to fifteen thousand people may have been killed in one prefecture alone archy's ivor bennett is a nagasaki where the locals are hoping nuclear workers well managed to prevent. they have managed to reconnect power cables to reactors number one and two now but in the last twenty four hours they had hoped to restore power itself electricity which they haven't done yet to the cooling systems so they get a call and systems up and running again and get the temperatures down inside the reactor because that's the only way it seems they're going to get this situation under control they haven't been able to do that yet because well there's been a lot of damage the reactors due to the earthquake the radiation levels they're battling there are very very high what's more it's not guaranteed but once that if they turn electricity on their parts will actually start working again because they might be damaged in the carrying out these checks now to see if there elektra's they will function properly once they turn it on sort of being very cautious about that is in the meantime all the

japan are in crisis mode so how are people surviving while they're surrounded by devastation artie's ivor van it gives us all the details on his experiences from the ground. the sheer force of the tsunami was hard to comprehend until i saw this vehicles and houses at impossible angles it was as if the ground surface had been ripped off. this woman told us they've never experienced such a powerful earthquake before and she feared for her life we weren't allowed out of the car at the coast the police were on high alert and suddenly there was panic. warnings of a five metre high wall of water heading our way go go go this man shouted at us we sped inland as fast as possible chased by others the last wave took just nine minutes after the earthquake to reach eight kilometers inland we didn't have long and this was a false alarm but those already on their knees are bracing themselves for more than the relief center in sendai the newly homeless a given blankets and a cardboard sheet all nineteen floors of this building a full with everyone from infants for the elderly. the night i spent here was

no military analyst ivor question that we could make a time out in a civil war. if that does not mean you have stopped a humanitarian disaster. you only do that when you take away the potential. as long as gaddafi is still in power, there is the potential for civil war, the possibility of of of radical insurgent, the crisis is still there. the president should acknowledge that in his speech. in a sense, not to be pejorative, but people reflect back when president bush got on the deck of the uss abraham lincoln, with the banner at "mission accomplished." if the president said our job is basically done here. we do not know if we stopped a humanitarian crisis, and we do not know what international community we will turn it over to. there was much good in the speech, that he did, after a week of conflict outlined what the plan was, the tasks ahead -- that was good, but he glossed over the vital questions. i think the administration still has a lot of work to do, and the notion that the hard part of american leadership is over -- i do not think that is true. the harde

no military analyst ivor question that we could make a time out in a civil war.at does not mean you have stopped a humanitarian disaster. you only do that when you take away the potential. as long as gaddafi is still in power, there is the potential for civil war, the possibility of of of radical insurgent, the crisis is still there. the president should acknowledge that in his speech. in a sense, not to be pejorative, but people reflect back when president bush got on the deck of the uss abraham lincoln, with the banner at "mission accomplished." if the president said our job is basically done here. we do not know if we stopped a humanitarian crisis, and we do not know what international community we will turn it over to. there was much good in the speech, that he did, after a week of conflict outlined what the plan was, the tasks ahead -- that was good, but he glossed over the vital questions. i think the administration still has a lot of work to do, and the notion that the hard part of american leadership is over -- i do not think that is true. the hardest par

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