>>> you are watching nhk world "newsline." the operator of the fukushima daiichi power plant is stepping up the removal of radioactive water that hinders efforts to restore the plants cooling functions. tokyo electric power company is trying to remove contaminated water from the basements of the turbine buildings of the number one and number two and number three reactors. tepco wants to remove the water into storage tanks. contaminated water must be transferred first. work at the number two and number three reactors is expected to begin on saturday. at the number one reactor, contaminated water in the storage tank will be transferred to another one by saturday afternoon. on friday, workers began a test spraying of resin in areas around the reactors to contain radioactive materials released by hydrogen explosion. the same day, eight posts monitoring levels in the compound started functioning again for the first time since the tsunami struck three weeks ago. radiation levels will be made public on its web site. also on friday, d

this is "newsline." for april 1st, 11:00 a.m. i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. >>> they may postpone low priority work at the daiichi power plant because it doesn't have enough radiation monitors for workers. earlier it was found the company had broken government rules by not providing each worker at the plant with a radiation monitor. tepco says many of its monitors were damaged in the quake. >> this is the reactor building for unit four. the picture was taken on the 24th of march. this footage was newly released by tepco. this aerial photograph was taken on the same day. next to the reactor building of unit four, you can see this long arm. that is for the water spraying vehicle. and this footage was taken from a camera attached to the end of this long arm. as water is injected, more steam rises indicating that the water is getting into the spent fuel pool. at fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant, many were destroyed in the quake and there were not enough for everyone. in some work groups, only one member of the group wore a p