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[01:47.780 --> 01:54.180]  together on the Richter scale, and that powerful tsunami has left a social, political, economic
[01:54.180 --> 01:56.620]  and nuclear drama in that country.
[01:56.620 --> 02:01.500]  We will also be following the situation in the Arab world, specifically in Libya, where
[02:01.500 --> 02:06.500]  international pressures continue on this conflict, and also the loyal troops to leader
[02:06.500 --> 02:10.680]  Mohammed al-Ghadafi continue to advance in the rebel zone.
[02:10.680 --> 02:14.580]  To talk about these issues, I have two guests today.
[02:14.580 --> 02:20.660]  Gladys Hernández, specialist of the Center for World Economic Research, CIEM, and my colleague
[02:20.660 --> 02:26.900]  Leonel Nodal, journalist and analyst on international issues related to the Middle East, who has also
[02:26.900 --> 02:32.100]  been the correspondent of the Latin Press Agency in many countries in that region.
[02:32.100 --> 02:35.660]  Today, at La Mesa Redonda...
[02:35.660 --> 02:42.220]  The Japanese government speaks of around 3,400 deaths and about 7,000 missing due to the
[02:42.220 --> 02:46.980]  earthquake and the tsunami that shook that country on Friday, with which the number of
[02:46.980 --> 02:49.740]  victims will surely exceed 10,000.
[02:49.740 --> 02:56.300]  After the earthquake, uncertainty has taken over the Japanese economy, touched for more
[02:56.300 --> 02:58.860]  than two decades by low growth and deflation.
[02:58.860 --> 03:05.220]  And the second most important city in Libya and the main opposite enclave lives moments
[03:05.220 --> 03:06.220]  of tension.
[03:06.220 --> 03:10.460]  It is expected that in the next few days the loyal forces to Mohammed al-Ghadafi will enter
[03:10.460 --> 03:14.860]  that locality.
[03:14.860 --> 03:20.060]  And before I propose to read the most recent reflections of Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro
[03:20.060 --> 03:24.060]  Ruz, entitled The Disasters That Threaten the World and that were published in the Cuban
[03:24.060 --> 03:27.540]  press on March 15, 2011.
[03:27.540 --> 03:33.780]  Fidel says, if the speed of light did not exist, if the closest star to our sun was not
[03:33.780 --> 03:40.420]  four years away from Earth, the only planet inhabited in our system, if UFOs really existed,
[03:40.420 --> 03:44.540]  the imaginary visitors to the planet would continue their journey without understanding
[03:44.540 --> 03:47.220]  the things of our suffered humanity.
[03:47.220 --> 03:51.740]  Just a few centuries ago, in the millennial history of man, nobody knew what was happening
[03:51.740 --> 03:53.700]  on the other side of the globe.
[03:53.700 --> 03:59.300]  Today we can know them instantly, and sometimes they are events of great transcendence that
[03:59.300 --> 04:02.140]  affect all the peoples of the world.
[04:02.140 --> 04:06.260]  Without further introduction, I will limit myself to the most important news of the last
[04:06.260 --> 04:07.260]  two days.
[04:07.260 --> 04:10.660]  Telesur, March 13, 2011.
[04:10.660 --> 04:14.260]  Eruption of the volcano in Japan activates a new alarm.
[04:14.260 --> 04:19.180]  The Japanese Meteorological Agency reported that the Chimuedake Volcano, located on the
[04:19.180 --> 04:24.980]  island of Yushu, southeast of Japan, threw this Sunday ash and stones up to 4,000 meters
[04:24.980 --> 04:30.100]  high after two weeks of relative calm and two days after the devastating earthquake
[04:30.100 --> 04:32.700]  and the tsunami that struck the country.
[04:32.700 --> 04:37.340]  It was in activity last January for the first time in 52 years.
[04:37.340 --> 04:43.860]  According to a BBC report, constructions located in a radius of 4 kilometers away had suffered
[04:43.860 --> 04:48.820]  damage and hundreds of people fled the surrounding areas in panic.
[04:48.820 --> 04:55.060]  The seismic movement of magnitude 9.0 on the Richter scale, according to the Japan Meteorological
[04:55.060 --> 04:59.140]  Agency, already had repercussions on other volcanoes.
[04:59.140 --> 05:04.420]  Japan was overwhelmed by earthquakes, tsunamis and explosions in nuclear power plants.
[05:04.420 --> 05:08.940]  Sendai, Japan, March 14, 2011, AFP.
[05:08.940 --> 05:15.020]  A double explosion in reactor number 3 of Fukushima 1's nuclear power plant fed this
[05:15.020 --> 05:20.380]  Monday the fear of an atomic disaster in Japan, a country already overwhelmed by a earthquake
[05:20.380 --> 05:24.620]  and a tsunami that could have left more than 10,000 dead.
[05:24.620 --> 05:32.980]  The Tokyo Electric Power Telco, operator of Fukushima 1, 250 kilometers northeast of Tokyo,
[05:32.980 --> 05:38.540]  in parentheses, also admitted the possibility that reactor 2's fuel had entered
[05:38.540 --> 05:42.580]  fusion because of an opening in the cooling circuit.
[05:42.580 --> 05:46.940]  The government, on the other hand, minimized the possibility that an important explosion
[05:46.940 --> 05:49.900]  occurred in that reactor.
[05:49.900 --> 05:57.700]  Rescue teams found close to 2,000 bodies on the coast of Miyagi Prefecture, northwest,
[05:57.700 --> 06:03.860]  while millions of Japanese tried to survive without water, electricity, fuel, enough
[06:03.860 --> 06:09.620]  food, and hundreds of thousands were forced to stay in emergency centers because of the
[06:09.620 --> 06:12.500]  tsunami that destroyed their homes.
[06:12.500 --> 06:17.180]  Rescuers from all over the world arrived at the shipyard to collaborate with more than
[06:17.180 --> 06:23.180]  100,000 soldiers who try to provide assistance in a country that is still shaken by the replicas
[06:23.180 --> 06:29.300]  of the earthquake and permanently overwhelmed by the false alarms of new tsunamis.
[06:29.300 --> 06:34.940]  The fear of a nuclear disaster was added to the anguish caused by the devastation.
[06:34.940 --> 06:39.860]  The earthquake, the tsunami, the explosions in the power plants face the country at its
[06:39.860 --> 06:46.660]  most serious crisis since the end of World War II, said Prime Minister Naoto Kahn.
[06:46.660 --> 06:52.140]  An explosion had occurred on Saturday in reactor number one, which cost the lives of a technician
[06:52.140 --> 06:53.940]  and hurt 11.
[06:53.940 --> 07:00.100]  The fusion occurs because of the heating of the fuel bars, which begin to melt
[07:00.100 --> 07:01.460]  like candles.
[07:01.460 --> 07:07.860]  The authorities decreed the state of emergency in a second nuclear plant, the one in Onagawa,
[07:07.860 --> 07:10.140]  northeast of the country.
[07:10.140 --> 07:15.180]  Another nuclear power plant, the one in Tokai, suffered an accident in its cooling system.
[07:15.180 --> 07:21.940]  The earthquake of magnitude 8.9 and the subsequent tsunami of 10 meters high destroyed on Friday
[07:21.940 --> 07:25.100]  the northeast coast of the archipelago of Nippon.
[07:25.100 --> 07:30.180]  More than 10,000 people could have lost their lives in the coastal prefecture of Miyagi,
[07:30.180 --> 07:31.820]  northwest of Japan.
[07:31.820 --> 07:36.340]  At least 5.6 million homes remain without electricity.
[07:36.340 --> 07:37.340]  Data.
[07:37.340 --> 07:40.580]  What happens inside Japan's nuclear reactors?
[07:40.580 --> 07:41.740]  A question.
[07:41.740 --> 07:48.620]  March 14, Reuters, a second explosion shook the Japanese nuclear plant damaged by an earthquake
[07:48.620 --> 07:55.500]  where the authorities work desperately to prevent the fusion of the reactor core.
[07:55.500 --> 08:02.540]  The core of a reactor consists of a series of tubes or metal rods of zirconium that contain
[08:02.540 --> 08:09.060]  fuel pellets of uranium stored in what engineers call fuel equipment.
[08:09.060 --> 08:16.620]  The cooling system had several problems during the last three days in reactors 1, 2 and 3
[08:16.620 --> 08:18.820]  in the Fukushima plant.
[08:18.820 --> 08:24.620]  However, the natural degradation of radioactive materials in the reactor core continues to
[08:24.620 --> 08:30.980]  produce heat, called residual heat, which falls to a quarter of its original level during
[08:30.980 --> 08:34.900]  the first hour and then disappears more slowly.
[08:34.900 --> 08:41.500]  Normally, that heat is eliminated by refrigeration pumps, which in the Fukushima plant lost the
[08:41.500 --> 08:47.060]  supply of emergency energy due to the earthquake, the tsunami or both.
[08:47.060 --> 08:52.660]  It was that hydrogen gas that caused the two explosions in the Fukushima plant in unit 1
[08:52.660 --> 08:58.900]  on Saturday and in reactor 3 on Monday, according to experts and officials.
[08:58.900 --> 09:04.860]  If a steel dome was broken inside a reactor, the levels of radiation would rise.
[09:04.860 --> 09:10.620]  But at this point, there is not enough heat to destroy them, experts say.
[09:10.620 --> 09:15.900]  There is still the risk that the core will melt, which could make it very difficult or even
[09:15.900 --> 09:22.620]  impossible to remove the fuel, which is what happened in Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania
[09:22.620 --> 09:27.580]  in 1979, March 14.
[09:27.580 --> 09:34.060]  The United States moves ships from the Japanese coast to detect radioactivity in 17 militaries.
[09:34.060 --> 09:39.700]  The Pentagon reported that 17 militaries who participate in the assistance work in Japan
[09:39.700 --> 09:46.420]  gave positive to low levels of radioactivity and ordered to temporarily reposition the ships
[09:46.420 --> 09:52.220]  of the seventh fleet based in the Japanese city of Yokosuka.
[09:52.220 --> 09:59.820]  The USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier concentrated 160 kilometers northeast of the plant of energy
[09:59.820 --> 10:05.260]  in the moment of the escape after the tsunami that followed the 9-degree earthquake on the
[10:05.260 --> 10:08.060]  Richter scale that shook Japan.
[10:08.060 --> 10:13.860]  They fight to cool reactors 2 and 3 in Fukushima and the number of deaths increases.
[10:13.860 --> 10:18.700]  International reaction, March 14, from the F agency.
[10:18.700 --> 10:26.100]  The responsible for reactor 2 of the Fukushima Japanese plant try to cool it after it could
[10:26.100 --> 10:33.340]  have suffered a partial fusion due to overheating, as they cool reactor 3, where there was an
[10:33.340 --> 10:36.660]  explosion that did not produce escape of radioactivity.
[10:36.660 --> 10:42.700]  While the authorities are eager to control the nuclear risk, the number of victims of
[10:42.700 --> 10:46.820]  the earthquake has grown, which has caused the worst tragedy in Japan since the Second
[10:46.820 --> 10:48.180]  World War.
[10:48.180 --> 10:53.380]  The earthquake could be felt with force in Tokyo, the largest city in the world with
[10:53.380 --> 10:58.940]  more than 30 million inhabitants, where the environment is saddening and citizens resort
[10:58.940 --> 11:05.260]  to alternative means of transport, such as bicycles, in the face of electric supply cuts.
[11:05.260 --> 11:10.820]  The country's meteorological agency has warned the Japanese population of a week of replicas
[11:10.820 --> 11:19.340]  and a 70% probability that until this Wednesday a 7-degree earthquake will occur in Japan.
[11:19.340 --> 11:23.620]  Germany suspends nuclear extension plans for three months.
[11:23.620 --> 11:27.540]  Berlin, March 14, German agency DPA.
[11:27.540 --> 11:32.300]  The accident recorded this weekend in the Japanese plant in Fukushima, as a result of
[11:32.300 --> 11:36.920]  the earthquake and subsequent tsunami that devastated the Asian country on Friday, has
[11:36.920 --> 11:41.020]  completely changed the global situation, said Merkel.
[11:41.020 --> 11:46.380]  Japan's accidents show that what we believe is impossible is possible, and the risks that
[11:46.380 --> 11:51.260]  we consider improbable are not so improbable, she continued to point out.
[11:51.260 --> 11:57.140]  AFP, Yemen, three demonstrators dead, including a 12-year-old boy.
[11:57.140 --> 12:01.460]  March 12, 2011, Sanaa AFP.
[12:01.460 --> 12:06.700]  Three demonstrators died, including a 12-year-old boy and hundreds were injured on Saturday
[12:06.700 --> 12:14.860]  in Yemen, where the victims accused the police of having used toxic gases to disperse them.
[12:14.860 --> 12:20.340]  A demonstrator died and about 300 were injured or intoxicated by the gases.
[12:20.340 --> 12:25.580]  According to the UN, 37 demonstrators and at least six policemen died from the beginning
[12:25.580 --> 12:27.380]  of the riots in Yemen.
[12:27.380 --> 12:33.100]  In Abu Dhabi, March 14, Reuters, the rise in crude prices and the recent and precipitated
[12:33.100 --> 12:40.540]  reduction in global cereal assistance could lead to a supply crisis, said the director
[12:40.540 --> 12:44.900]  of the organization, FAO in English, Jacques-Thieu, Reuters.
[12:44.900 --> 12:51.660]  The higher prices are worrying and we have a strong decrease in existences.
[12:51.660 --> 13:00.220]  London AFP-AP, the defense company Biosystem PLC, with central offices in Great Britain,
[13:00.220 --> 13:06.300]  bribed Saudi Arabia authorities to get million-dollar contracts for weapons, according to an American
[13:06.300 --> 13:11.580]  diplomatic statement, leaked and spread by Wikileaks.
[13:11.580 --> 13:17.020]  The VAE, the largest defense contractor in Europe, had delivered more than 70 million
[13:17.020 --> 13:22.540]  pounds, $113 million, equivalent to a Saudi prince.
[13:22.540 --> 13:29.020]  F, Ashton does not rule out the possibility of imposing an air exclusion zone over Libya.
[13:29.020 --> 13:34.580]  The responsible for the foreign policy of the European Union, Katharine Ashton, did not rule
[13:34.580 --> 13:40.300]  out today in Cairo the possibility of imposing an air exclusion zone over Libya after meeting
[13:40.300 --> 13:44.380]  with the Secretary General of the Arab League, Amr Moussa.
[13:44.380 --> 13:52.100]  Tripoli, March 14, ANSA, the forces of Mohammed al-Gaddafi attacked today Abda-Bidya, east
[13:52.100 --> 13:57.940]  of Libya, and the locality of Suwara, northwest, while the National Council of the Opposition
[13:57.940 --> 14:03.300]  assured that it would recover positions and said it has international commitment to establish
[14:03.300 --> 14:05.700]  an air exclusion zone.
[14:05.700 --> 14:09.980]  The Council assured today that it obtained the commitment of the United States, Great
[14:09.980 --> 14:14.020]  Britain and France to have an air exclusion zone.
[14:14.020 --> 14:19.540]  General Ab al-Fattah Yunis, a member of the Rebellious Military Council, assured that they
[14:19.540 --> 14:24.580]  would recover positions in the coastal area and in the eastern region of the country.
[14:24.580 --> 14:29.180]  We will regain control of those cities and will soon feel that our army is advancing
[14:29.180 --> 14:30.860]  towards Sirte and Tripoli.
[14:30.860 --> 14:37.220]  100,000 volunteers joined the forces of Gaddafi, Tripoli, March 14, ANSA.
[14:37.220 --> 14:42.100]  About 100,000 volunteers joined the Libyan armed forces from the beginning of the combats
[14:42.100 --> 14:49.140]  between the troops that support Mohammed al-Gaddafi and rebel groups, said sources of government.
[14:49.140 --> 14:54.140]  Bahrain, opposition denounces occupation after arrival of Saudi soldiers.
[14:54.140 --> 15:01.620]  Manama, March 14, 2011 AFP, the people of Bahrain face a real danger, that of a war
[15:01.620 --> 15:07.820]  against Bahrainian citizens without declaration of war, the seven members of the opposition
[15:07.820 --> 15:11.740]  highlighted, including Wefak Chiita, in a statement.
[15:11.740 --> 15:18.020]  We consider the entry of every soldier, of every military vehicle to the land, air or
[15:18.020 --> 15:23.500]  maritime spaces of the Kingdom of Bahrain as a flagrant occupation, a conspiracy against
[15:23.500 --> 15:29.100]  the people of Bahrain disarmed and a violation of international agreements and agreements,
[15:29.100 --> 15:30.820]  added the opposition.
[15:30.820 --> 15:36.980]  More protests in Yemen, Bahrain and Morocco, Manama and Aden, March 13, ANSA.
[15:36.980 --> 15:42.180]  The demonstrations of protests continue today in Yemen, where three people died, Bahrain
[15:42.180 --> 15:48.220]  and Morocco in complaints against the governments of those countries, reported today local sources.
[15:48.220 --> 15:52.940]  In Saudi Arabia, dozens of people met today in the vicinity of the headquarters of the
[15:52.940 --> 15:57.860]  Ministry of the Interior in Riyadh, to ask for the release of a group of activists arrested
[15:57.860 --> 15:59.460]  by the police.
[15:59.460 --> 16:06.020]  Manama, AP, tens of thousands of protesters in Bahrain surrounded a royal palace on Saturday,
[16:06.020 --> 16:11.100]  where they demanded political freedoms and the resignation of the king one day after
[16:11.100 --> 16:15.940]  the security forces repressed with violence a similar protest.
[16:15.940 --> 16:20.580]  The mobilizations in this country are similar to those in Egypt and Tunisia.
[16:20.580 --> 16:27.220]  Bahrain has a peculiar importance for Washington because there stands out the fifth fleet of
[16:27.220 --> 16:29.140]  the United States Army.
[16:29.140 --> 16:36.460]  The United Arab Emirates will send troops to Bahrain, Dubai, March 14, 2011 AFP.
[16:36.460 --> 16:41.980]  The United Arab Emirates announced on Monday that they will send troops to Bahrain to contribute
[16:41.980 --> 16:47.460]  to preserve order and stability in that neighboring country, to which they have already reached the
[16:47.460 --> 16:50.100]  same end of the Saudi military.
[16:50.100 --> 16:53.300]  Manama, March 14, 2011 AFP.
[16:53.300 --> 16:58.820]  The opposition of Bahrain said on Monday that any foreign military presence will be considered
[16:58.820 --> 17:04.220]  as an occupation when reacting to the arrival of Saudi troops to the kingdom.
[17:04.220 --> 17:10.260]  More than a billion Saudi soldiers, who are part of the common force of the Gulf Cooperation
[17:10.260 --> 17:16.900]  Council, CCG, arrived in Bahrain shaken by a wave of protests, according to the AFP,
[17:16.900 --> 17:19.460]  a Saudi responsible.
[17:19.460 --> 17:25.820]  Mexico AFP, the so-called rapid and furious operation in the United States, which presumably
[17:25.820 --> 17:32.220]  allowed the entry of almost 2,000 weapons to Mexico, put the relationship between both
[17:32.220 --> 17:35.700]  countries in a delicate moment, according to experts, and caused the unanimous annoyance
[17:35.700 --> 17:38.100]  of Mexican legislators.
[17:38.100 --> 17:43.660]  If the United States acted without including any Mexican importance, it is a totally unacceptable
[17:43.660 --> 17:51.140]  situation and a clear sign of distrust of Washington in the face of Mexican police forces,
[17:51.140 --> 17:56.460]  said the AFP Jorge Montaño, former ambassador to Mexico in the United States.
[17:56.460 --> 18:02.900]  Mexico faces a spiral of unprecedented violence that has left almost 35,000 deaths since December
[18:02.900 --> 18:09.180]  2006 in confrontations between drug traffickers and anti-narcotics operations, in addition
[18:09.180 --> 18:13.220]  to a hundred victims trapped in the crossfire.
[18:13.220 --> 18:18.740]  The Mexican Senate described the rapid and furious as an aggressive and unilateral operation
[18:18.740 --> 18:21.300]  and an aggravation of Mexico's sovereignty.
[18:21.300 --> 18:29.620]  On March 14, 15 and 4, tonight it was reported that reactor number 2 of the Fukushima 1 plant
[18:29.620 --> 18:36.020]  was melting after the emergency cooling systems failed, which aggravated the fears
[18:36.020 --> 18:38.340]  of radioactive contamination.
[18:38.340 --> 18:43.700]  On Saturday and Monday, there were explosions in reactors 1 and 3.
[18:43.700 --> 18:52.580]  Reactor number 2 works with a fuel called MoX oxide, which contains plutonium, a specially
[18:52.580 --> 18:54.500]  harmful substance for health.
[18:54.500 --> 19:01.940]  Roma 14, Italian agency ANSA, a total of 442 are the most active nuclear reactors in the
[19:01.940 --> 19:07.740]  world, concentrated in 29 countries and built by no more than 10 companies.
[19:07.740 --> 19:14.660]  Europe, whose governments began today to review their policy in the sector, has 148
[19:14.660 --> 19:16.860]  reactors active in 16 countries.
[19:16.860 --> 19:21.180]  The already active are added to 65 in construction phases.
[19:21.180 --> 19:26.260]  The world record for the number of nuclear reactors in operation is 30 in the United States
[19:26.260 --> 19:32.060]  with 104, followed by France 58 and Japan 54.
[19:32.060 --> 19:38.020]  Last hour news that just arrived in Cuba inform that there was a third explosion in Fukushima.
[19:38.020 --> 19:47.100]  F, March 15, 20 and 13, is feared radioactive leak by nuclear fusion of a reactor in Fukushima.
[19:47.100 --> 19:52.780]  Tokyo, March 15, Spanish agency EFE, the company operating the Fukushima nuclear power plant,
[19:52.780 --> 19:58.300]  northeast of Japan, recognized today that it fears a radioactive leak by a possible fusion
[19:58.300 --> 20:03.580]  of the reactor number 2, which this morning suffered an explosion.
[20:03.580 --> 20:09.140]  Tokyo Electric Power, TEPCO, admitted that it could have emitted radiation after being
[20:09.140 --> 20:14.460]  damaged the structure that surrounds the reactor number 2, while the levels of radioactivity
[20:14.460 --> 20:21.880]  in the area marked 8,217 microsieverts per hour compared to the 500 allowed.
[20:21.880 --> 20:27.500]  You can observe the complex situation reigning in the Arab world, in whose peoples has unleashed
[20:27.500 --> 20:30.460]  a revolutionary wave, continues Fidel.
[20:30.460 --> 20:34.980]  The Saudi king supports the war of the Otan in Libya, while in Bahrain the Otan supports
[20:34.980 --> 20:36.860]  the Saudi invasion.
[20:36.860 --> 20:41.460]  The blood of the Arab peoples will be spilled on the benefit of the great transnational
[20:41.460 --> 20:46.780]  of the United States, while oil prices will reach unpredictable limits.
[20:46.780 --> 20:52.740]  As wars break out in the areas of greater production and nuclear disasters,
[20:52.740 --> 20:57.860]  the people of Japan multiply the resistance of the peoples to the proliferation of nuclear plants.
[20:57.860 --> 21:03.180]  The collapse and the capitalist consumer societies in their neoliberal and imperialist phase are
[21:03.180 --> 21:09.220]  leading the world to a dead end, where climate change and the growing cost of food
[21:09.220 --> 21:14.580]  lead thousands of millions of people to the worst poverty index.
[21:14.580 --> 21:22.100]  Fidel Castro Ruz, March 14, 2011, 9.35, Meridian past.
[21:22.100 --> 21:27.420]  And having concluded the reflections of our Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz, we begin
[21:27.420 --> 21:33.040]  our round table, the topics that occupy our round table, the first of them, the situation
[21:33.040 --> 21:49.900]  in Japan.
[21:49.900 --> 21:55.620]  And before starting our analysis with our guest, Gladys, I propose to read some of
[21:55.620 --> 21:58.740]  the most recent information that is known about Japan.
[21:58.740 --> 22:04.100]  A very strong replica is coming from the province of Chikuosa in the southeast of Tokyo.
[22:04.100 --> 22:08.980]  It says that an earthquake of 6 degrees in the open scale of Richter has occurred this
[22:08.980 --> 22:13.060]  Tuesday in the southwest of Tokyo in the province of Chikuoka, according to the meteorological
[22:13.060 --> 22:18.620]  agency of Japan, and it says that the earthquake has also caused material damage in that region.
[22:18.620 --> 22:22.460]  The Fukushima nuclear power plant, of which so much has been talked about these days,
[22:22.460 --> 22:28.100]  and also Fidel refers to it in his reflections, reached the level of 6 nuclear alert.
[22:28.100 --> 22:33.500]  Let us remember that they are within the level 7 scale, it is the highest, and Fukushima reaches
[22:33.500 --> 22:35.020]  level number 6.
[22:35.020 --> 22:39.500]  And it is also said, according to some press media, that the economic impact of the catastrophe
[22:39.500 --> 22:44.740]  in Japan will exceed 2% of the gross domestic product of this country.
[22:44.740 --> 22:51.660]  But the economic repercussion in that country is the following material that we propose.
[22:51.660 --> 22:52.660]  Well...
[22:52.660 --> 22:57.620]  They suffer very serious damage, in three of them there have been explosions, such as this
[22:57.620 --> 22:59.620]  from yesterday in reactor 3.
[22:59.620 --> 23:03.180]  The last one was last night in reactor 2, and it is the most serious of all because it has
[23:03.180 --> 23:08.260]  damaged the concrete wall that protects the reactor so that there are no radioactive escapes.
[23:08.260 --> 23:12.560]  So both this accident and the fire that has occurred in reactor 4 have been able to cause
[23:12.560 --> 23:17.180]  some escape, for now the Prime Minister has recognized in a press conference that the level
[23:17.180 --> 23:22.660]  of radiation in the area has increased.
[23:22.660 --> 23:26.140]  Then it has been the government's spokesman who has assured that the level of radiation
[23:26.140 --> 23:31.100]  is worrying for health, and until now the maximum French authority in nuclear security
[23:31.100 --> 23:36.220]  has said that the level of alert in Fukushima is 6 on a scale of 7, and that there have been
[23:36.220 --> 23:41.820]  two consecutive explosions, and not one, those suffered by reactor 2.
[23:41.820 --> 23:46.980]  In the central there are only 50 workers trying to avoid a tragedy, and the cities less
[23:46.980 --> 23:51.740]  than 20 kilometers from the central are deserted, but the concern, as we have been told by some
[23:51.740 --> 23:56.340]  Spanish residents in Tokyo, reaches there, 200 kilometers from Fukushima.
[23:56.340 --> 23:59.780]  The International Agency for Atomic Energy has said that in recent hours the radiation
[23:59.780 --> 24:04.700]  in the area has been reduced to half.
[24:04.700 --> 24:09.280]  First they evacuated those who lived 10 kilometers from Fukushima, then they have committed to
[24:09.280 --> 24:14.100]  rescuing soon those who live less than 20 kilometers from the central, and in recent
[24:14.100 --> 24:21.180]  hours the Prime Minister Naoto Kan has recommended this to those who live less than 30 kilometers.
[24:21.180 --> 24:26.140]  We would like to ask you to stay inside the buildings, at home or in the office.
[24:26.140 --> 24:29.540]  So far, you are seeing it, the security perimeter arrives for now.
[24:29.540 --> 24:34.300]  The Japanese government, through public television, recommended a few hours ago to close the
[24:34.300 --> 24:38.780]  windows, not to use ventilation systems, not to drink tap water, to be careful with
[24:38.780 --> 24:42.500]  the foods they ingest, and even not to hang their clothes outside.
[24:42.500 --> 24:47.820]  And the replicas are happening, a new strong earthquake has occurred in the Tokyo area.
[24:47.820 --> 24:54.780]  The Japanese government speaks of around 3,400 dead and about 7,000 missing due to the earthquake
[24:54.780 --> 24:59.780]  and the tsunami that shook that country on Friday, with which the number of victims will
[24:59.780 --> 25:02.300]  certainly exceed 10,000.
[25:02.300 --> 25:06.940]  Of the total confirmed deaths, only more than 1,000 have been identified.
[25:06.940 --> 25:12.380]  They are official sources, about 25,000 people have been rescued, including this man, whom
[25:12.380 --> 25:15.940]  they have found alive, almost 100 hours after the earthquake.
[25:15.940 --> 25:20.980]  On the fourth consecutive day, rescue teams face the triple task of removing the ruins
[25:20.980 --> 25:28.380]  and debris on the coast, in search of survivors or corpses, and also to help the victims
[25:28.380 --> 25:32.340]  in the areas that are isolated.
[25:32.340 --> 25:37.140]  In Tokyo, the activities are delayed gradually, despite the news that assures that the radiation
[25:37.140 --> 25:40.180]  emitted from Fukushima has reached the city.
[25:40.180 --> 25:45.140]  Residents feel fear for their health.
[25:45.140 --> 25:48.620]  This citizen assures that there is no need to worry about radiation due to the magnitude
[25:48.620 --> 25:49.620]  of the escape.
[25:49.620 --> 25:55.780]  However, he hopes that the government will tell them the truth about this.
[25:55.780 --> 26:01.660]  In the meantime, the supply of food and medicines is already observed in Tokyo, and the reserves
[26:01.660 --> 26:03.620]  for the coming weeks.
[26:03.620 --> 26:07.860]  The tragedy that Fukushima is experiencing is considered the worst nuclear accident since
[26:07.860 --> 26:11.900]  what happened in Chernobyl, Ukraine in 1986.
[26:11.900 --> 26:16.060]  In the streets of Suma, the devastation is part of the panorama.
[26:16.060 --> 26:21.500]  The high levels of radiation after the explosion of a third nuclear reactor in the Daiichi complex
[26:21.500 --> 26:27.000]  represent a serious threat to those who still remain in the area.
[26:27.000 --> 26:32.020]  In the destroyed coast of Fukushima, this housewife says that she does not know what to do and
[26:32.020 --> 26:33.980]  that she is worried about radiation.
[26:33.980 --> 26:41.460]  Well, we saw some information from foreign TV channels about the situation in Japan,
[26:41.460 --> 26:46.180]  especially about the social impact that has been very related to the thousands of lives
[26:46.180 --> 26:50.580]  that have been lost that have not yet been counted, and also about the impact that has
[26:50.580 --> 26:55.540]  had on the spills, on the explosions, on the nuclear plants, on the nuclear reactors of
[26:55.540 --> 26:59.700]  various nuclear plants in that country, which of course has broadened the fear about the
[26:59.700 --> 27:04.580]  possibility of radiation and also of contamination in people.
[27:04.580 --> 27:09.740]  But there is also a fundamental economic impact, not only for Japan, for the Japanese economy
[27:09.740 --> 27:16.660]  that has been causing problems for several years, but also internationally and regionally.
[27:16.660 --> 27:21.380]  On that subject, I propose to talk to our specialist, but first to see the material
[27:21.380 --> 27:26.420]  that I had previously promised them on this economic issue.
[27:26.420 --> 27:30.980]  After the earthquake, uncertainty has taken over the Japanese economy, touched for more
[27:30.980 --> 27:33.580]  than two decades by low growth and deflation.
[27:33.580 --> 27:38.020]  It comes from what has been called a lost decade.
[27:38.020 --> 27:45.100]  Japan suffered a very, very strong crisis that has been taking a long time to recover.
[27:45.100 --> 27:51.500]  Japan, a market of 127 million people, leader in electronics and automobiles, is the third
[27:51.500 --> 27:52.500]  global economy.
[27:52.500 --> 27:56.780]  The road and road cuts keep a large part of the industry paralyzed, and this complicates
[27:56.780 --> 27:59.140]  the departure of its initial recovery.
[27:59.140 --> 28:04.900]  Japan, that crisis was beginning to emerge in the last year, but unfortunately this
[28:04.900 --> 28:07.540]  earthquake has interrupted that recovery.
[28:07.540 --> 28:11.940]  In the short term, the earthquake has touched the infrastructures and threatens tourism and
[28:11.940 --> 28:12.940]  consumption.
[28:12.940 --> 28:19.340]  The damage information is between 100,000 and 200,000 million euros, with magnitudes
[28:19.340 --> 28:21.300]  up to a certain point acceptable.
[28:21.300 --> 28:25.540]  The reconstruction of the country will shoot the already overflowing public debt, equivalent
[28:25.540 --> 28:28.180]  to 200% of the gross domestic product.
[28:28.180 --> 28:31.860]  Although the positive reading of analysts is that the investment will increase.
[28:31.860 --> 28:36.060]  Japanese insurance companies have to repatriate many of their investments that they had made
[28:36.060 --> 28:37.540]  abroad.
[28:37.540 --> 28:41.300]  That now causes a repatriation of debts.
[28:41.300 --> 28:46.140]  The catastrophe of Japan will be felt, experts say, in the results of insurance companies
[28:46.140 --> 28:47.140]  and energy companies.
[28:47.140 --> 28:52.020]  At the moment, Alas al-Yen has given more than 1.5% since Thursday.
[28:52.020 --> 28:55.780]  And well, the figures are impressive.
[28:55.780 --> 29:01.780]  The Japanese Central Bank, as we mentioned yesterday, has had to inject more than 180,000
[29:01.780 --> 29:07.380]  million dollars into the Japanese economy, and it is also said that the insurers of
[29:07.380 --> 29:12.100]  that country will have to repatriate more than 35,000 million dollars.
[29:12.100 --> 29:17.140]  What has been the impact, Gladys, you, who has been studying the economy of the region
[29:17.140 --> 29:20.300]  for so many years, specifically the Chinese economy, the Japanese economy, what has been
[29:20.300 --> 29:26.860]  the real impact of this natural catastrophe on the Japanese economy, which, as we said
[29:26.860 --> 29:30.860]  at the beginning, also already faced problems a few years ago?
[29:30.860 --> 29:34.620]  What were these problems and how is the situation now being recorded?
[29:34.620 --> 29:43.780]  Well, experts have started a series of arguments, comments, but well, in a good way, it would
[29:43.780 --> 29:51.780]  be totally irresponsible to make a detainment on the possible impacts of this catastrophe,
[29:51.780 --> 30:05.780]  because as we have been observing, it really turns out that the Japanese economy is in a