. >> in the last 12 hours, the news from hire shima has -- hire shima has continued to get worse. workers thought only a handful of people were under these mudslides. now they think the number is closer to 50. it seems like whole families were buried as they slept. for the rescuers, it's hard to know where to start digging amidst all of this. many houses have been completely obliterated. time is rapidly running out. >> we have to be extremely careful here as we are looking at the potential secondary disaster due to weather conditions. so, yes, we can say rescue and search operations are going through a difficult patch right now. >> harrowing stories have also begun to emerge of what happened here on wednesday morning. this is the spot where a father handed his 3-year-old son to a fireman only to see both swept away and killed seconds later by a fresh landslide. everyone here talks of the astonishing speed with which this all happened. and of the extraordinary amount of rain that caused it. nearly 10 inches in just four hours. japan is an extremely mountainous country and landslide

. >> reporter: on the eve of her wedding, shima is at a relaxed picnic, surrounded by her family.guest is not a relative. joe of the new york police department is as close to family as anyone here. >> i think you might be the daughter he never had. >> i love him. i do. and his wife helen. she means just as much to me as he does. >> reporter: 20 years ago the two met under what could have been tragic circumstances. when he hshe stopped breathing, saved her life. she was just two months old. >> it was only a matter of moments that all this took place. but it felt like it was an instant. >> reporter: in that moment, a friendship formed that survived time and distance. the family stayed in touch. and he never missed her birth y birthday, not one. he saved more than a dozen lives in the 45 years he's been a police officer. but with none of those families has he bonded like he has with this one. the palestinian-american family calls barka her american father and they meet. when shima walks down the aisle today, joe barka from new york will be there. >> i'll be misty eyed, i'm sure. i ha

chernobyl so we must protect our children i talk to local authorities in different places and focus shima with no one would listen to me they believe what the government says while in reality relation is still there and it is killing our children. they are dying of heart conditions ask leukaemia fire oil complications and lots of kids are extremely exhausted after school others are simply unable to attend the eat less is those that want the authorities are still hiding the truth from us and i don't know why they have children of their own . heard so much to know that they can't protect our children. that the new company but i understand many children who have been evacuated are now living in if the question the district again new schools have a thing for their children and you're saying that they're facing radiation there is anything may be done to help the children affected by the nuclear fallout. one night to actually both the central government and the graphic sure authorities say there is no radiation. they're not doing anything to do it emotional day and they're not going to do anyth

this and then this happened when i first met the management of the former shima power plant i asked him about the possibilities of a nuclear accident pretending that i didn't know anything about it and it turned out they were unable to answer many of my questions frankly that's when it first crossed my mind of their management didn't have a contingency plan to mr it was then i realized the facility could be dangerous what they missed. but mr is a goner i would like to go back in time march eleventh two thousand and eleven the day of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit japan where were you that day what do you remember. i wasn't in fatah but that day that i was in a town nearby on official business there or you missed and that's when the earthquake hit mr. what exactly did you see around you then. as for the aftermath of the earthquake you know there were no destroyed buildings or other wreckage but i saw all that on my way back to. as soon as it happened i jumped into my car and drove home i managed to get there before the bigots and i became and i mean it was only later tha

special drills in case there's a fire at a plant i think it's the central government and the focus shima briffa care authorities now bear the brunt of responsibility for what happened and as for thomas mayor and it was my responsibility to take care of the people of my city i had no time to get any advice i tried talking to professor authorities but there was absolutely chaos because it was impossible to hold a meeting with an organ donor here so i chose to act on my own and i decided to start with evacuating people as far from radiation as possible missed. your town has moved to a new location to the neighboring city of. is it safe there and do you see this as a new start for these people. what they. consider i'd like to show you a table with radiation levels around chernobyl really levels around fukushima are four times higher than in chernobyl your so i think it's too early for people to come back to focus. to us here you can see radiation levels in our region. this is the epicenter of the earthquake and we already is fifty to one hundred kilometers even two hundred kilometers in fact

state last operating nuclear power station to avoid sharing the same fate of the focus shima tragedy had to r.t. dot com to find out more. public anger in the u.s. at the military star police response to peaceful rallies over the shooting of an unarmed black teenager refuses to subside the protests that followed michael brown's funeral have been peaceful but more nationwide rallies against police brutality are planned for tuesday the citizens all over the world will take to the streets demanding security forces stop using tear gas and heavy weapons during rallies and they are planning to protest near police stations and u.s. embassies. amid the unrest in ferguson two police officers have been suspended for their harsh rhetoric so one went on twitter to say that protestors should be killed like rabid dogs another appears to have posted a video two years ago in which he says that he's a killer who is ready to kill anybody political columnist ted rall believes that the approach of the predominantly white police force in ferguson made the rallies inevitable. what we're talking about is a

states last operating nuclear power station to avoid sharing the same fate of the focus shima tragedy had to r.t. dot com to find out more. in london the problem of gang crime may have been falling but the problem of gang culture is still very much real that's leading to fears of a ticking time bomb under farmer picks up the story. gang crime and shocking scenes like these were becoming rarer in london cheatings it fall in by a half an stabbings by a third over the last two years but community leaders and nice sounding the alarm over recent tune in violence and ironically some blame operation trident the police launched to tackle gangs after the london riots in twenty eleven what tried have done taken out many of the low low level to put soldiers that used meat on the street and the small amount of drugs and let the boy people are fighting over it out for it and the people who are now stepping into that void are more violent than the one that it's a concern borne out in recent crime figures in parts of north london knife crime has risen by thirty percent in the last twelve months whil