the catastrophe in japan with the head of the scientific seismological council that the russian academy of sciences. hello again of the welcome truth squad like the interview show on our feet i'm now going out and today we'll be talking about the earthquake in japan one of the worst disasters in japan says three has left thousands that is millions without basic utilities the humanitarian catastrophe could be accompanied by severe ecological problems two explosions had a nuclear plant of course fears of a radiation leak but may there still be another play any time soon and here's the president of the scientific face the logical council at the russian academy of sciences. last week japan was hit by a maggot quake that was followed by giants and the wave left central japan's infrastructure and economy badly crippled but the biggest danger is now coming from the northeast of the country where there have been a number of explosions at a damaged nuclear power plant people now if you're a possible nuclear meltdown bring radioactive contamination. please. our professor welcome to the show thank you very mu

through all atomic energy and in the sea outlook of environmentalist an advisor 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 powe

the institute for the problems of the safe development of the atomic power industry the russian academy of sciences and of course all. sending forth a wave of fear the atomic mushroom cloud the atomic bomb to throw a sinister shadow of the atomic power industry this is why people perceive the word atom as a threat they have long being scared by the atomic bomb today it's a dangerous source of energy very dangerous if you don't watch it but the oil industry and chemical industries are just as dangerous shock waves yesterday also spoke about those tsunamis come ashore and washed away three hundred thousand people can you imagine that i'm sure that all the world's atomic power plug disasters for the next one hundred years keep your fingers crossed won't cause as many casualties it's scary to live near the coastal city but is the coast deserted has no one come back it's a convenient place to live people fish people welcome to make money people are coming back to the coast of course an early warning system is being developed and some sort of an evacuation arrangement is being put in place reasonable or

machine when you clear power station this according to some experts from the russian academy of sciences means that the whole of the russian far east some part of china and to a large extent to a korean peninsula may be affected by the possible radiation emission from this reactor in japan so far as we've heard the government is saying that the situation is under control and also we've heard assurances from the american scientists who are saying that right now the wind is blowing westward from japan so should any accident happen then the whole of the radioactive material would probably find itself in the middle of the pacific not in the russian mainland or china or korea or anywhere else but indeed the wind can't you can't you know can change any minute and obviously if something happens at the station this could be far far ten times more serious than what happened at your novel. ok well let's just to remind you of the breaking news that nuclear safety commission has said that a meltdown to nuclear power plant is possible that they are watching the situation closely there has been just a

precious leading political analysts the director of the instance that is in city of of the russian academy of sciences the tally now we can't thank you very much for your time sir now so much has happened in such short period of time and people are still struggling to understand what is really happening in libya what's your take on the situation there as you said the situation is called unpredictable from my point of view it was a continuation of a very dramatic. changes that happened in the north of africa and all around the world actually but it's very important. to take into account that the two neighboring states neighboring states to libya egypt and tunisia they were just i mean are enough all these dramatic changes but what happened in my view first was a continuation of the events in tunisia and egypt but secondly it firstly secondly it was totally different because i think in egypt and both egypt and tunisia we had the sort of popular revolution so facebook youth was. the this new type of revolution one of the material that was behind this popular move was some group called one region nothing

of cindy, we have doctor aleksei yablokov. who is the leading russian expert on the consequences of the nuclear disaster at chernobyl. he is a member of the russian academy of sciences and served as the chair of the russian national security council in agency commission for ecology under president boris yeltsin. in 2009 he authored the book for people in the environment. a study that was first published in english by the newark academy of sciences. and this synthesizer the result in research studies on the effects of chernobyl nuclear disaster on the people and invite. and to his right, we have tatyana. my apology. i'm not going to double to pronounce her first name correctly. >> it is difficult. >> tie beyond is going to help with translation today for aleksei yablokov and she and her own right as a leader in making the public of the horrible consequences of nuclear accidents, and in russia able to the public. and she took part of the u.s., russia negotiations on nuclear issues and is a participant, participating doctors against atomic bombs in japan to draw attention to the victims of nuclear production. and she also work with the ngo women of europe our common fu