>> guest: after general king surrendered to the japanese on bataan, they -- japanese wanted to capture corregidor, which, as you could see on that map, was at the tip. they were very -- they turned their guns towards corregidor. they wanted to get the american troops out as quickly as they could. something, however, happened at that point that no one has really fully described. they took the troops from the point of the peninsula, the tip near corregidor, and started to march them off the peninsula, which, in itself, you could say, 'all right. that's a military strategy.' our american troops didn't have enough food or medicine during the four-month battle from january to april, so they were not in good physical shape to begin with. that's a very arduous walk along the coast, where it says cabadbaran and balanga. what happened, the japanese were moving them so quickly, if they wouldn't--they didn't feed them. they didn't give them water. it was tropical weather. if a man fell by the wayside, he was most likely murdered. so why they didn't put them on the trucks, why they didn't slow the

got a lot of time but certainly people are being critical in the way the japanese

governments i think both the japanese government and tepco have a strong interest in downplaying the problem in downplaying the threat and in town playing the impact i think that there's no doubt that we need an independent inquiry that will be honest and not protect tepco and also not protect the japanese government and downplay the incident that will give the people of japan and the region here the information that we need about exactly what happened so you talk about the japanese government downplaying the severity and possible long term consequences of this nuclear meltdown here puts a japan has established some measure of stability of or it's a runaway reactor is what they are talking about putting a temporary six month focus over the reactor over the facility but could that be toppled again it's a seismic area of ten children or tsunamis the situation worse and i can think absolutely the situation could worsen the situation is stable at the moment only in the sense that it car that is teetering on a cliff and hasn't fallen is stable because it hasn't fallen in yet the situation

of angels," the untold story of american nurses trapped on the tanned by the japanese. it tells the stories of army and navy nurses who were caught during the bombing of manila in the philippines by the japanese and their establishment of the jungle hospital for the numerous casualties. this lasts about an hour. c-span: elizabeth m. norman, author of "we band of angels," who are you talking about? >> guest: i'm talking about the army and navy nurses who were in the philippines when world war ii began, who surrendered to the japanese and are the largest group of american women pows in the history of our country. c-span: where's this picture from? >> guest: that's the picture taken of the army nurses when they were liberated from santo tomas interment camp in manila. they're on their way out of camp. c-span: and where did you get the idea for this book? >> guest: it grew out of two sources. my mother served in the spars in world war ii. and i was always very interested in her time in uniform. everybody's dads served in world war ii, but not too many mothers. so i had that

the japanese translator. clare boothe luce was very interested in homer lea and wrote introduction to the read release of his two books and helped elevate him to the status of forgotten profit. the third book he wrote, british former commander of the british army lord roberts asked could he write a book for the british like the "valor of ignorance" that they did for the americans? and he did. so here's this other book, the germans translated. kaiser wilhelm read it. they thought it was interesting. homer lea died in 1912. he was cremated and his last wishes were to be buried in china. didn't happen. his wife kept his ashes. she died in 1934. when the family donated a few papers to the hoover institution at stanford university they made it a condition to try to get the ashes to china. the mainland was out of the question, and likely a relative said come on over. they had a nice military ceremony. his ashes are currently interred in taiwan and the taiwanese government at the time said when the two chinas are re

japanese authorities have raised the severity rating to its highest level. japan boss nuclear agency previously rated a level 5 accident, compable to the three mile island accident. but an increase in the release of radiation has pushed it to level 7, the same as the infamous chernobyl accident from 1986. the japanese prime minister says it's time to focus on rebuilding the shattered country and feels there's reason for optimism at the the shima as well. >> fukushima is progressing toward stability and the emission of radioactive substances are on the decline. >> the government appears to be reassuring citizens. the cabinet minister staged a media event to demonstrate his confidence in locally grown produce. >> the food in the shops and supermarkets and here today is safe. >> but those living in emerging -- in emergency shelters do not appear to be buying the message. suspicion is growing that the situation is more serious than the government was willing to admit. recent developments provide no cause for optimism. >> let's get more on the inflation fears sto

. >>> japanese and u.s. rescue teams are intensifying their search for u.s. bodies in what could be the last chance to find victims swept out to sea. an estimated 16,000 people are still missing, after an earthquake and tsunami ravaged japan. for the next three days, 120 aircraft and 65 ships the scour the hardest-hit areas. >> the japanese side does the actual recovery. we don't actually put hands on any remains. but we can help find them. >> reporter: near the crippled fukushima daichi nuclear plant, search teams are wearing protective gear to guard against radiation. people within 12 miles have been evacuated. six miles beyond that, evacuation is voluntary. >> reporter: japanese officials say the order will probably remain in effect for months. the plant's owner released this video, taken 18 eight days -- taken eight days ago, which shows the extensive damage inside one of the reactors. smoke rises from the complex. >> reporter: japan's prime minister admits, even he doesn't know if the plant is stabilized. radiation has contaminated vegetables, beef and s

i mean it's quite clear that this is an international disaster obviously the japanese government and the industry are primarily responsible and yet since people around the world are at risk we now all need to be chipping in so certainly support and assistance from the russian government as important as it is from the u.s. government and other governments but part of the issue here is that when you have governments like korea saying don't dump this waste into the ocean that also means the japanese government needs to be listening to its neighbors what does this mean for the nuclear industry as a whole now. well i think that this really really calls into question the notion that nuclear power is safe and clean it's clearly not safe and it's clearly not clean i think that what we see already is in financial markets around the world but nobody has any desire to be investing in new nuclear power plants so i think that really the issue now is how do we begin to bring nuclear power plants offline how do we begin to bring renewable and efficiency technologies of the twenty first century i kn

here in san francisco, admission is charged for golden gate park that the japanese tea garden and the conservatory of flowers. in golden gate park but also charge to enter the academy of sciences and other major museums and attractions around town, including the exploratory them, moloch, and white tower. i will turn the presentation over to our director of finance and administration. even with anticipated start of challenges, we expect a gross between $350,000.400000 dollars this year. one quarter of a million dollars. -- $350,000.400000 dollars -- $350,000 and $400,000 this year. >> as phillips said, i am willing to talk about the framework for the admissions program. staffing. revenue expenditures and attendance. then i will take just a quick minute to respond to the budget analyst report on this item. the department entered into a grant agreement with the botanical society in august of 2010. amongst other things, it required the botanical society to remit all admissions revenue collected to the department on a weekly basis, which they do. under the terms of the agreement, the socie

how japanese carmakers a facing. production difficulties here in russia are due to the shortage of parts after the earthquake disaster this that has cut his russian outward by eighty percent as components become thinner on the ground so yoder is expected to follow suit of decreasing its global production by thirty percent meanwhile watches car sales jumped seventy seven percent in the first quarter fears of a shortage and popular japanese models are pushing sales higher industry analysts say other manufacturers could be in trouble as japanese made parts they used in many corporations. that's all for now i'll be back with more at twenty past the hour traffic. the books. submit. twenty five years of fall outs. from the most devastating nuclear disaster in the history of the bulge of the century on this monday morning learned from its mistakes. the bags of chernobyl. above the arctic. if. it. is easy to. come. to. six. wealthy british style the best but i suppose it's priceless.

you have a middle ground in the japanese sinking. it really does not fall down ideological lines, but it is an attendant to the transformation in northeast asia that is ongoing. the ambitions of japan have to be central to the process, but it has been limited in the past. what all of us who watch japan are trying to grapple with is the idea of a loaf of bread being baked. the question in my my mind's -- in my mind, are we seen schools of thought that are challenging what was there before? in my mind, the autonomous have always been there. they have just not been a prophetic agenda. -- pragmatic agenda. where is it going to come from? i have not heard anything yet, and hopefully will disagree with me, that suggests we move out of the four traditional schools of thought in japan. i think we are still in that middle ground, but the agents have shifted. i will not answer your question about 311 and its aftermath, but so much of our scholarship on japan has attempted to interpret the domestic policy preferences here. postwar ideology, whe

that story in business japanese carmakers raise production difficulties in russia due to the shortage of parts after the earthquake disaster book review the details in our business book and. this is r t coming to you live from the russian capital on marina joshing a quarter of a century ago the world awoke to the worst nuclear accident it had ever seen the explosion actually novel sent a huge plume of radioactive smoke across much of europe and leaving the land and thirty kilometer exclusion zone poisoned for thousands of years now is covering events around the day to mark the anniversary of the disaster of course. hello to any so well it looks like it's a sunny spring day in ukraine just as it was when disaster unfolded twenty five years ago. indeed in just over a month of course as the world witnessed a nuclear disaster unfold in japan attention shifts to ukraine as it marks the twenty fifth anniversary of the world's worst nuclear catastrophe that's when an explosion blew the roof off reactor number four spewing vast amounts of radiation into the air it's estimated some eight and a

two japanese singers took part in the concert are from the disaster areas. three-hour concert was broadcast live. organizers say by friday night, they received pledges of $2.4 million. >>> people in taiwan are also giving generously to help those affected by the quake and tsunami. they donated more than $100 million so far. >> translator: japan was generous to taiwan when we had a natural disaster. it's now taiwan's turn to show compassion. >> taiwan's foreign affairs office says governmental bodies, the red cross and private groups collected about $128 million as of friday. three weeks after the earthquake and tsunami, several million dollars are still being given every day in taiwan. 560 tons of relief supplies like blankets and water and power generators are being sent to affected areas. other efforts to help japanese disaster survivors are on the way from around the world. u.s. red cross had received $120 million in donations. >>> libyan rebels fighting the government forces say they won't agree to a cease-fire unless his forces leave towns and cities. n

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he spoke to dr robert jacobs a professor at the here assume at peace institute he says japanese at first to distance the crisis at fukushima from chernobyl are desperate attempts at damage control. the. crisis is not resolved i think that because of the process of the chernobyl anniversary the japanese government has been very interested to try to position the fukushima crisis as a less intense than the trouble crisis but by this period of time the chernobyl crisis had been resolved and there was it was the cleanup of this site but the ongoing incident was result much quicker than this currently in japan and we don't really know what the end game will be we really don't know exactly how this situation will go so it's absolutely impossible to say that it's that it's less than chernobyl. no of course those who were deployed in the cleanup effort in the immediate aftermath of the term noble disaster were putting their lives on the line to prevent the tragedy from spreading even further our teeth spoke to one of them.

added business japanese carmakers scale production in basra do the difficulties in getting ports as a result of the exact start will have that and more visibility and it's likely that . this is are coming to live from moscow i'm marina joshie welcome to the program quarter of a century ago the world will go to the worst nuclear accident it had ever seen explosion at church novel sent a huge pool of radioactive smoke across much of europe and leaving the lands thirty kilometer exclusion zone poisoned for thousands of years through the day arches and so now is in the ukrainian capital kiev covering events to mark the anniversary of the disaster. it started as a beautiful day as it is today but ended horribly when at one twenty three am an explosion blew the roof off the terminal build nuclear facility and a fire that ensued for some ten days after that spewed vast amounts of radiation into the air through at the immediate time of the accident thirty two lives were lost some thirty more in the weeks and months that followed but in total the number of deaths potentially resulting from the

japanese carmakers are facing production difficulties in russia due to the shortage of parts after the earthquake disaster and this one is cutting its russian output by eighty percent as components become thin of the ground so yoga is expected to follow suit after decreasing its global production by thirty percent meanwhile russia's car sales jumped seventy seven percent in the first quarter fears of a shortage in popular japanese models are pushing sales higher industry analysts say other manufacturers could be in trouble as japanese made parts are used in many corporations. the russian government seems to be having doubts over its decision to raise the tax burden on businesses prime minister vladimir putin admits the new rules which came into effect in january could deprive companies of incentives to invest it's a criticism that's being echoed by business leaders such as vice president at mobile phone. it's very important for us that consumers have access to mobile devices and mobile services with the lowest possible price because that is good for the corner as a whole it's good for

models industry analysts say other manufacturers could be in trouble as well as japanese made parts a used in many. so update for this hour but i'll be back with more in about fifteen minutes from now said stay with us for head like this up next. to. me. this time silent for decades. twenty five years ago the entire fifty thousand population over a gradient down a pretty hard one to microwave to within three hours. but now it wants to be recently some people started receiving post notices telling them to beat up letters at this post office in reaction. to stories of the world long gone it. doesn't have to be told to. me to the diaries of the ghost of our two. today is once again flared up the from these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations are all today please look. oh geez available in hotels coursed i'm going to know. this it is cold as photo east west. coast.

two years older than the damaged japanese plant.ow, with your long experience in protecting health and environment in new jersey, how confident can we be that the nuclear plants at our state are sufficiently safe to protect all of our people at all times? >> well, i would defer to the chairman on the safety issue except to say obviously, what was recently announced, which was that that plant was voluntarily -- the owners have agreed to shut it down, i think is part of the solution with respect to that particular facility. >> well, we're -- little reassurance honestly because if they said okay, we'll even cut short the period that the license covers, which means that there's an element of worry out there. there can't be -- >> senator, if i could just comment and my understanding of the part of the reason for not extending the plant operation was motivated by the cost and some of the economic factors. certainly from the nrc's perspective, we didn't see a safety reason to not operate beyond 2019 when the plant would operate. again, whe

two years older than the damaged japanese plant. now, with your long experience in protecting health and environment in new jersey, how confident can we be that the nuclear plants at our state are sufficiently safe to protect all of our people at all times? >> well, i would defer to the chairman on the safety issue except to say obviously, what was recently announced, which was that that plant was voluntarily -- the owners have agreed to shut it down, i think is part of the solution with respect to that particular facility. >> well, we're -- little reassurance honestly because if they said okay, we'll even cut short the period that the license covers, which means that there's an element of worry out there. there can't be -- >> senator, if i could just comment and my understanding of the part of the reason for not extending the plant operation was motivated by the cost and some of the economic factors. certainly from the nrc's perspective, we didn't see a safety reason to not operate beyond 2019 when the plant would operate. again, w

there's a lot of japanese, japanese-american folks in this area. >> reporter: there are signs written in japanese for hideki mat sue wi. expectations are high, just as they are every year. >> i guess we're excited every year to see what the a's can bring to us. >> i can't wait to go. >> so far, the team has collected or will donate $50,000 from those tickets sold to sunday's game, which is also japanese heritage day on sunday. reporting live, kraig debro,. >>> we have another baseball related note, a sad one. we learned this morning that a giants fan was beaten and critically injured after last night's season opener in los angeles. two men in dodgers gear followed three giants fans as they walked to their car after last night's dodgers victory. they said the attackers yelled slurs and started kicking and punching the men no one has been arrested. >>> the owner of a pleasant ton apartment complex says it will make safety changes after a toddler wandered away from his home. he crossed six lanes of traffic before ending up at a walmart parking lot. pleasantton police said the boy made it

the low here in march came a few days after warnings the japanese earthquake will hurt revenue. because of the closure and damage of two plants. national semi closed a fraction lower, but rocketed 73% higher after news of the deal hit the market after the close. at $25 per share, that would be n-s-m's highest price in 3.5 years. leading the overall market was leading the overall market was the materials sector, led by fertilizer maker c.f. industries, up another 2%. health care was strong, helped by johnson & johnson. j-n-j led the dow industries with this 1% gain. and speaking of dow leaders, walmart added 1%. bloomberg reports it may start selling groceries online. the f.a.a. has ordered new inspections of more 737 airlines after the fuselage rupture on a southwest airlines plane on friday. that problem led to a five-foot hole in the plane's roof. southwest's problems occurred on a 7-300 model. southwest canceled 70 flights today because of continued inspections. 57 planes were cleared for service again. the airline expects to be finished with inspectors late tomorrow. morning

more than 20,000 people showed up for japanese heritage day at the coliseum. the pregame ceremonies including taiko drummers, free t-shirts and hideki matsui appeared on the field. the a's raised $50,000 for japanese relief efforts and will donate one dollar for every ticket sold to earthquake relief. >>> crews are close to re-opening highway 101 in hum bold county after tons of rock and boulders slit on to the roadway last week. highway 101 has been completely closed five miles north of gasherville, caltrans expects to re-open it to one-way controlled traffic 6:00 tomorrow morning. crews are continuing to monitor the stability of the hillside until the road is cleared. drivers are being urged to use interstate 5. >> the u.s. agrees to expand its participation in the fight in libya, and on the ground, how rebels were able to get an advantage over moammar gadhafi's well-train it armies. >>> the impact of a little green in a neighborhood. >> the cheers did not last long as charlie sheen takes the stage for the first leg of his 20-city tour. >> leigh: boy, what a

we accepted a generous donation of 17 coit fish for the japanese tea garden -- koi fish for the japanese tea garden. steve, you are heading up to to go next week to pick up the fish and transport them back to their new future home. it is an estimated value of 300 to $4 per fish. -- $400 per fish. we will have some celebration. on may 7, from noon until 3:00 p.m., we will be coasting at the "access to a venture -- adventure." our department is very proud of the work we are doing to meet the needs of families with children with special needs. we will be debuting camp adjour, which is designed specifically for kids on the autism spectrum. commissioner levitan has not arrived yet. stanford has been a tremendous partner, and i want to thank and acknowledge everyone from the stanford team and from rec and park for organizing this event in bringing a little luck to our historic stadium. a particular shot out to commissioner levitan, who was as excited as anyone out there. we had cheering squads. we have the varsity men's and women's basketball teams, volleyball teams, members of the bands. our

at least 20,000 fans showed up for japanese heritage day before the a's faced off against seattle. the pregame ceremonies including taiko drummers, free t-shirts, and hideki matsui appeared on the field before the first pitch. the a's have raised $50,000 and will donate $1 to every ticket sold to japanese earthquake relief efforts. >> a major recall of turkey burgers. some have already been sick 'ed, possible live by sam nellie. -- salmonella. the baby eagles who are a huge hit on the internet. >> leigh: we're looking live now at angel island out there, spectacular views. a beautiful day. how much longer can we expect this kind of weather? we take a look at the seven-day forecast coming up. >> federal officials say the turkey burger may have been come dam -- contaminated with sam nellla. they're labeled all natural turkey burger with lean white meat. 12 people have become ill. if you bought one, you should return it to sam's club and get a full refund. we have more information on our web site, abc7news.com, under "see it on tv". >>> an eagles nest where three chicks have hatched is

an analogy to favor is the japanese government we saw in the wake of the tour noble the immediate wake of the chernobyl disaster we saw the have official soviet reaction was to. attempt to cover up and deny what was going on but once it became apparent the scale and scope of what was happening we saw that kick start a new era of glasnost and openness whereas we see the exact opposite thing happening here with the japanese government reaction to what's happening because i think the government has proven that it's not interested in giving me a free and open access to the site or to to the information coming out of there and amazingly enough that's pertaining even during this disaster even as the chief cabinet secretary donald is giving twice daily briefings on what's happening at fukushima those briefings are only open to meet the select group of japanese media organizations foreign media and independent journalists are being excluded from those meetings and are only getting access to secondhand information from administrative sources so it there is an incredible attempt to try to cover

they decided to donate their airfare to the japanese players could come here. they arrived in los angeles yesterday. first trip to california and they will be staying with local families so they won't face any out-of-pocket expenses. >> it was horrible event. now, what they have gone through so much. it will be great for them to come here. >> it pretty much means, nice to meet you. treat me like friends. >> and they have spent time in learning what this they can from each other. >> kristen: awesome. that is kind of sportsmanship and dodgers and giants showed last year. >> subtract a few million dollars here and there. >> and million dollar day. if you like it sunny. >> breezy at the coast. pretty too nice day. and a little cooler than average but the promised warming trend is still slated for the weekend. beautiful pictures as we look back to san francisco this morning from mount tamalpais. you can see sausalito and even the bay bridge under the banner in the left hand corner. we mentioned it would be cooler this morning and 39 in napa. 40 in santa rosa. 41 in

but the japanese are really committed to nuclear and so there was a lot of a lot of vested interests that wanted to downplay it and i study the three mile island accident and i study chernobyl and now this one and it's pretty standard practice that when when things are breaking you seem to look for the best alternative as opposed to the most realistic one and i think the japanese wanted a nice outcome and believe whatever instruments gave them that indication if they don't have power to the fuel pool cooling systems that any of the reactors in uniform is the worst because that will has the freshest fuel it's the the most physically hot and on in addition unit floors got a crack in the side of it so they can even if they have water to cool it it's going to run out the crack that's the toughest the toughest problem on site right now. right going to follow all the latest developments on japan's nuclear crisis on our web site at r.t. dot com including a man who braved through the famous evacuations that the japanese tourist trains will run in the hope condolences of the script and passiv

coming up, containing the crisis, japanese officials say they've stopped radioactive water leaking fromhe damaged nuclear power plant into the sea. the clock is ticking. president obama warns of a government shutdown after failing to strike a budget bill. ♪ >> hello there. talks are continuing to try to convince laurent gbagbo to give up the presidency of ivory coast. there have been reports he's close to surrendering, but in an interview on french television, he insisted he won last year's election and not alassane ouattara. hundreds of civilians have died in the past few days after being caught up in the fighting between rival forces. the french government says a cease-fire is now in force in abidjan and the situation appears to be quiet. andrew harding is there for us and sent this report. >> battle weary. we found these troops resting at a petrol station in abidjan this morning. no one in the shattered city has had much sleep these past five days. this is the invading army fighting to instore ivory coast elected president. abruptly a radio announcer declares the battle is over. laur

and other people in the japanese government. we collaborate with them on the foreign exchange intervention, as you know. we are very admiring of the courage of the japanese people in responding to these situations, and of the central bank of japan, which has done a good job in providing liquidity and helping to stabilize financial markets in what are very significant disturbances to the economy. the implications for japan have been discussed at some length, and i think the governor recently talked about them. in the near term there will probably be a decline in japanese public reflecting the destruction, reflecting electricity problems, etc. we believe that will be relatively temporary and that the economy will start to come back, but this is a major blow and it will take a lot of effort on the part of the japanese people to restore the economy and to recovery for the united states we are looking at this very carefully. thus far, the main impact of the japanese situation on the u.s. economy has been through supply chains. we've

japanese men's choir delivered the national anthem today.hletic matzui and suzuk i were in the line up. the a's said they've raised more than $65,000 for the relief effort. >>> in news of the world tonight, in afghanistan anti american protests spread across the country today for the third day in a row. the violence has left 24 people dead. afghans are angry over the burning of a koran by a pastor last month. >>> in the west african nation, fighters prepared for a final assault to oust president louren bacbod. even though another man is the recognized winner of last month's election. 20miles separate the forces of the two men. in the last week, 400 people have died in the fighting. >>> the death toll rose today to 40 after a week of heavy rains that triggered flooding and landslides in 10 southern provinces. one entire village was buried under a slide. thousands of people have escaped their homes. >>> french investigators using under water robots say they found more pieces of an air france plane that crashed in the atlantic in 2009. air tran

that equaled the chances of everybody you know what first of all i want to say sorry for the whole japanese nation. and if we're talking about the world championships. you know it's kind of interesting because when being ready for that kind of change it. now figure skating is very popular here in russia. maybe figure skating even the first place. a lot of sports which the most popular now in russia and we have lots of interesting skaters spatially skaters who've been skating before but anyway we have lots of shawls and figure skating now for which we're talking about. all the people around us talking about skating about some names. i would ask you you remember certainly the late sixty's and seventy's when soviet figure skate he was number one in the world it was a trial and a sleepover not really but you know about that everybody was watching i was recording figure skating on my own my tape recorder the because i wanted the melodies are one of the tunes i want to add value to paul maria things like that so can can we say there today figure skating is becoming ass popular as it was in the ti

our guard and projections for this year is that we budgeted $2.1 million in revenue from the japanese tea garden this year and this year, it will be slightly more than that. this is not money that is sitting around doing nothing, that is helping us to balance the $6.8 million target and will minimize, we will use that funding over budget to minimize service impacts in fiscal year 11-12. i think our approach is conservative but it helps us to balance from year to year. >> i would like to hear from the budget analyst on that. how confident are you in this debate? the fact that we are warning about one rainy month. normally, you don't want to have that come into play while you are analyzing. >> members of the committee, supervisor avalos, supervisor wiener, supervisor mirkarimi, i concur, and the projection could be wrong. we are simply stating that based on what their own projections are, there are 10 or 11 projections. this is a 50 + increase that we have said for this year. could we be wrong, absolutely? >> would you agree that in terms -- this had been around for 10 years and then al

the japanese prime minister has said that produce is safe to eat despite continuing radiation leaks. he said radiation levels were now dropping and consuming food from the area was one way to show support. japan has reclassified the nuclear threat to be the highest level on an international scale. our correspondent explains. >> as we look at the severity scale used by the authorities, you can see that before today, the leak was put at level five, an accident with wider consequences. it's been raised to level seven. after an assessment of the total radiation leaks so far. the other crisis was at cher noble. the first crisis happened the day after the tsunami. the cooling systems failed and spent fuel rods overheated. the authorities say upgrading to level seven was because the impact of raid yation had been widespread on the air, vegetables, and the ocean. workers still don't have the situation under complete control. yesterday they had to run for safety after a powerful aftershock. small amounts of radiation are still being released. the authorities say the risks of another major lea

. >>> ships and helicopters are searching the japanese coastline for bodies. more than 16,000 people are still missing after the disaster. officials have confirmed nearly 12,000 deaths. >>> the people of japan are still coming to grips with the uncertainties that the deadly earthquake has created but it didn't stop one group of local high school students from coming here. the students were hosted by the mcdonough school. today they said their final good-byes. abc's tim rutherford was there. >> reporter: ask any personal exchange student and they will say the personal bonds of exchange students run deep. the teenagers from tokyo said good-bye to the entire school before heading home tomorrow. the earthquake struck 10 days before the students' and visit. even in tokyo, far from the epicenter, they knew this one was different. >> everyone screamed. >> reporter: after much discussion, they decided to make the trip. >> the school the people came from canceled all activities except this one exchange, and that was because of the traditions that we had established ove

also japanese authorities predict several months of radiation leaks as people try to rise from the rubble of the quake disaster. and one of the other main news stories of the week russian security forces strike a serious blow to a terrorist stronghold of the north caucuses of the first on the verse three of the suicide bombings on the moscow metro. hello this is r.t. from moscow it's now eleven pm moscow time my name is kevin zero in with a news update for you and a recap of the top stories that shape the week and first program there are few forces in libya are attempting to recapture the country's third largest city of misrata it's the last rebel stronghold left in the west and has been under attack for weeks now our correspondent paula slater is in the capital tripoli with more. the word of bloodshed is increasingly being used to describe the situation in the last rebel held city in the west of this country the city of misrata now according to doctors on the scene they say that one person was killed and several people were wounded in the early hours of sunday morning when the government