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[01:27.720 --> 01:41.320]  Very good afternoon to the audience of the round table. Today we will be following two
[01:41.320 --> 01:45.960]  facts of its importance, of its current state. The situation in Japan after that
[01:45.960 --> 01:51.360]  symptom of more than nine points on the Richter scale and that powerful tsunami that has left
[01:51.360 --> 01:57.040]  a whole political, economic and above all nuclear drama in that country. We will also be
[01:57.040 --> 02:02.680]  following the situation in the Arab world, specifically in Libya, where international pressures
[02:02.680 --> 02:08.200]  continue on this conflict and also the loyal troops to leader Muhammad al-Qadhafi continue
[02:08.200 --> 02:13.920]  to advance over the rebel zone. To talk about these topics, I have two guests today.
[02:13.920 --> 02:18.640]  Gladys Hernández, specialist in the research center of the world economy,
[02:18.640 --> 02:25.400]  100 and colleague Lionel Nodal, journalist and analyst in international issues related to the
[02:25.400 --> 02:30.920]  Middle East and which has also been responsible for the Latin press agency in many countries in that
[02:30.920 --> 02:40.720]  region. Today on the round table. The Japanese government talks about around 3,400 dead and about 7,000
[02:40.720 --> 02:45.560]  disappeared due to the earthquake and the tsunami that occurred on Friday in that country,
[02:45.560 --> 02:49.560]  with what the number of victims will surely exceed 10,000.
[02:49.560 --> 02:54.840]  After the earthquake, the incertidum has been empowered by the Japanese economy,
[02:54.840 --> 02:58.560]  played for more than two decades by the low growth and by the deflation.
[02:59.920 --> 03:05.320]  And the second most important city in Libya and the main opposite key lives moments of
[03:05.320 --> 03:10.440]  tension. It is expected that in the next few days, the loyal forces to Muhammad al-Qadhafi will enter
[03:10.440 --> 03:18.720]  that locality. And before I propose to give the lecture to the most recent reflections of the
[03:18.720 --> 03:22.560]  commander-in-chief Fidel Castro-Ruz, titled the disasters that threaten the world and that were
[03:22.560 --> 03:29.520]  published in the Cuban press this March 15, 2011. Fidel says, if the speed of light
[03:29.520 --> 03:35.320]  did not exist, if the star closer to our sun did not have four years of earth's light,
[03:35.320 --> 03:41.880]  a single planet inhabited by our system, if the UFOs really existed, the imaginary visitors
[03:41.880 --> 03:46.320]  to the planet would continue to travel without understanding the things of our suffering humanity.
[03:46.320 --> 03:51.720]  It has been just a few centuries in the millennial history of man, no one knew what was happening
[03:51.720 --> 03:57.400]  on the other side of the globe. Today we can know them instantaneously and sometimes they are
[03:57.400 --> 04:02.960]  events of great transcendence that affect all the peoples of the world. Without further introduction,
[04:02.960 --> 04:06.680]  I will limit myself to the most important news of the last two days.
[04:06.680 --> 04:15.280]  On March 13, 2011, the eruption of the volcano in Japan activates a new alarm. The Japanese meteorological
[04:15.280 --> 04:21.200]  team reported that the chimodake volcano, located in the Yushu Island in the east of Japan,
[04:21.200 --> 04:27.320]  erupted this Sunday in ashes and stones up to 4000 meters high after two weeks of relatively
[04:27.320 --> 04:32.760]  calm and two days after the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck the country. It entered
[04:32.760 --> 04:38.960]  activity in January last year for the first time in 52 years. According to a BBC report,
[04:38.960 --> 04:44.880]  constructions located on a radius of four kilometers from the distance had suffered damage and hundreds
[04:44.880 --> 04:52.200]  of people fled from the surroundings in panic. The seismic movement of magnitude 9.0 on the
[04:52.200 --> 04:57.800]  Richter scale, according to Japan's meteorological agency, had already had repercussions on other
[04:57.800 --> 05:03.280]  volcanoes. Japan has been bombed by seismos, tsunamis and explosions in nuclear power plants.
[05:03.280 --> 05:12.040]  Sendai, Japan, on March 14, 2011, an explosion in reactor number 3 of the Fukushima-1 nuclear
[05:12.040 --> 05:18.920]  power plant, powered this Monday the fear of an atomic disaster in Japan, a country
[05:18.920 --> 05:24.560]  already bombed by a seismic and a tsunami that could have left more than 10,000 dead.
[05:24.560 --> 05:32.880]  Tokyo Electric Power TELPCO, Fukushima-1 operator, 250 kilometers northeast of Tokyo,
[05:32.880 --> 05:38.520]  among other things, also admitted the possibility that the fuel of reactor 2 would have entered
[05:38.520 --> 05:44.680]  fusion due to a leak in the cooling circuit. The government, on its side, minimized the
[05:44.680 --> 05:49.840]  possibility that an important explosion would occur in that reactor.
[05:49.840 --> 05:57.680]  The rescue teams found about 2,000 corpses on the coast of Miyagi's prefecture, northwest,
[05:57.680 --> 06:03.400]  while millions of Japanese people tried to survive without water, electricity, fuel,
[06:03.400 --> 06:09.440]  food, enough, and hundreds of thousands were forced to lie in emergency centers because
[06:09.440 --> 06:14.840]  of the tsunami that destroyed their homes. All the world's rescue teams arrived at
[06:14.840 --> 06:20.680]  the shipyard to collaborate with more than 100,000 soldiers who are trying to provide assistance
[06:20.680 --> 06:26.160]  in a country that is still besieged by the earthquakes and in permanent assault by
[06:26.160 --> 06:31.840]  the false alarms of new tsunamis. The fear of a nuclear disaster was added to the
[06:31.840 --> 06:38.480]  anguishes caused by devastation. The earthquake, the tsunami, the explosions in the centers
[06:38.480 --> 06:44.120]  face the country in its most serious crisis since the end of World War II, said the
[06:44.120 --> 06:50.160]  Prime Minister Naoto Kahn. An explosion had occurred on Saturday in reactor 1, which
[06:50.160 --> 06:56.680]  cost life, to a technical failure and went to 11. The fusion was caused by the heating
[06:56.680 --> 07:03.240]  of the fuel bars that begin to melt like candles. The authorities decreed the state
[07:03.240 --> 07:10.120]  of emergency in a second nuclear plant, the one in Onagawa, northeast of the country. Another
[07:10.120 --> 07:15.720]  nuclear plant, the one in Tokai, suffered an injury in its cooling system. The earthquake
[07:15.720 --> 07:22.840]  of magnitude 8.9 and the subsequent tsunami of 10 meters high struck the north-east coast
[07:22.840 --> 07:27.880]  of the Nippon archipelago. More than 10,000 people could have lost their lives in the
[07:27.880 --> 07:36.480]  north-west coast of Japan. At least 5.6 million homes continue without electricity.
[07:36.480 --> 07:44.080]  Data, what happens within the nuclear reactors of Japan? A question, March 14, Reuters. A
[07:44.080 --> 07:48.920]  second explosion occurred at the Japanese nuclear plant damaged by a earthquake, where
[07:48.920 --> 07:55.480]  the authorities work in a desperate way to avoid the fusion of the nuclear of the reactors.
[07:55.480 --> 08:01.760]  The nuclear of a reactor consists of a series of tubes or metal bars of circumnium that
[08:01.760 --> 08:09.160]  contain fuel pellets of stored uranium in which engineers call fuel teams. The
[08:09.160 --> 08:14.880]  refligeration of support had problems several times during the last three days in the reactors
[08:14.880 --> 08:22.440]  1, 2 and 3 in the Fukushima plant. However, the natural degradation of radioactive materials
[08:22.440 --> 08:29.480]  in the reactor core continues to produce heat, called residual heat, which falls to a quarter
[08:29.480 --> 08:36.040]  of its original level during the first hour and then disappears slower. Normally, that
[08:36.040 --> 08:42.040]  heat is eliminated by refrigeration bombs, which in the Fukushima plant lost the supply
[08:42.040 --> 08:49.120]  of emergency energy due to earthquakes, tsunamis or both. It was that hydrogen gas that caused
[08:49.120 --> 08:55.920]  the two explosions in the Fukushima plant on Saturday 1 in the reactor 3 on Monday,
[08:55.920 --> 09:03.200]  according to experts and employees. If a steel dome breaks inside a reactor, the
[09:03.200 --> 09:09.240]  radiation levels would rise, but at this point there is no enough heat to destroy them,
[09:09.240 --> 09:14.040]  according to experts. There is still the risk that the nuclear is found, which could
[09:14.040 --> 09:20.760]  cause a lot or even impossible to remove the fuel, which is what happened in Three
[09:20.760 --> 09:29.400]  My Island in Pennsylvania in 1979, F-14, in March. The United States went far away from
[09:29.400 --> 09:35.400]  Japanese coasts when detecting radioactivity in 17 military. The Pentagon reported that
[09:35.400 --> 09:41.840]  17 military, who participated in the assistance work in Japan, gave a positive to low level
[09:41.840 --> 09:47.920]  of radioactivity and ordered to temporarily reposition the ships of the seventh fleet
[09:47.920 --> 09:55.120]  based on the Japanese city of Yokuzuka. The U.S.S. aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan
[09:55.120 --> 10:01.440]  concentrated 160 kilometers to the northeast of the energy plant at the time of the escape
[10:01.440 --> 10:06.360]  after the tsunami, which followed the earthquake of nine degrees on the Richter scale, which
[10:06.360 --> 10:12.520]  occurred in Japan. Fight to refrigerate reactors 2 and 3 of Fukushima and increase the number
[10:12.520 --> 10:19.960]  of deaths. International reaction, March 14 of the F-agency, the responsible of reactor
[10:19.960 --> 10:27.040]  2 of the Fukushima Japanese Central, try to refrigerate it after it could have suffered
[10:27.040 --> 10:33.120]  a partial leak due to overheating, as well as cooling the reactor 3, where there was
[10:33.120 --> 10:38.760]  an explosion that did not produce radioactivity escape. While authorities are panicking to
[10:38.760 --> 10:44.780]  control nuclear risk, the number of dead victims of the earthquake that has caused the worst
[10:44.780 --> 10:51.880]  tragedy in Japan since World War II. The tremor was felt with force in Tokyo, the
[10:51.880 --> 10:57.040]  largest city in the world with more than 30 million inhabitants, where the environment is
[10:57.040 --> 11:03.120]  sad. The citizens resort to means of alternative transport, such as the bicycle, to the cuts
[11:03.120 --> 11:09.240]  of the electric supply. Meteorological agency of the country warned the Japanese population
[11:09.240 --> 11:15.080]  of a week of replicas and 70% of probabilities that a earthquake of 7 degrees in Japan will
[11:15.080 --> 11:25.880]  be recorded. Germany suspends nuclear extension plans for three months. Berlin, March 14,
[11:25.880 --> 11:32.320]  German DPA. The recorded accident this weekend in the Japanese plant of Fukushima, due to
[11:32.320 --> 11:36.920]  the earthquake and subsequent tsunami that devastated the Asian country on Friday, has
[11:36.920 --> 11:43.040]  completely changed the global situation, said Merkel. Japan's accidents show that what
[11:43.040 --> 11:48.480]  we believe is impossible is possible, and the risks that we consider unlikely are not
[11:48.480 --> 11:54.960]  as unlikely as they continue to punctualize. AFP, Yemen, three dead protesters, including
[11:54.960 --> 12:03.520]  a 12-year-old child. March 12, 2011, Sanaa AFP. Three protesters died, including a
[12:03.520 --> 12:10.360]  12-year-old child, and hundreds were injured on Saturday in Yemen, where the victims accused
[12:10.360 --> 12:17.440]  the police of using toxic gases to dispersal them. A manifestant died and about 300 were
[12:17.440 --> 12:23.360]  injured or intoxicated by gases. According to the UN, 37 protesters and at least six
[12:23.360 --> 12:27.520]  policemen died from the beginning of the riots in Yemen.
[12:27.520 --> 12:33.120]  Abu Dhabai, March 14, Reuters, the rise of the prices of the crude, the recent and precipitated
[12:33.120 --> 12:39.880]  reduction of the global assistance of cereals, could lead to a crisis of its minister, said
[12:39.880 --> 12:45.360]  the director of the Organization, Favre, in English, Jack Tewf, at Reuters. The highest
[12:45.360 --> 12:51.880]  prices are worrying and we have a strong decrease in the existence.
[12:51.880 --> 13:01.360]  London AFP. The Biasystem PLC, with central offices in Great Britain, subordinated authorities
[13:01.360 --> 13:07.000]  from Saudi Arabia to get contracts millionaires of weapons, according to a diplomatic, US-led
[13:07.000 --> 13:11.040]  government, filtered and distributed by WikiLeaks.
[13:11.040 --> 13:17.000]  Abu Dhabai, the biggest defense contractor in Europe, had delivered more than 70 million
[13:17.000 --> 13:23.080]  pounds, 113 million dollars, equivalent to a Saudi prince.
[13:23.080 --> 13:29.000]  AFP. Aston does not discard the possibility of imposing an air exclusion zone on Libya.
[13:29.000 --> 13:33.760]  The responsible for the foreign policy of the European Union, Catherine Aston, did not
[13:33.760 --> 13:40.280]  discard today in Cairo the possibility of imposing an air exclusion zone on Libya after meeting
[13:40.280 --> 13:44.480]  with the Secretary General of the Arab League, Amr Moussa.
[13:44.480 --> 13:52.120]  Tripoli, March 14, ANSA. The forces of Muhammad al-Qadhafi attacked today Abu Dhabi, east
[13:52.120 --> 13:57.920]  of Libya and the location of Subwara, northwest, while the National Council of the Opposition
[13:57.920 --> 14:03.280]  assured that it will recover positions and said that it has international commitment to establish
[14:03.280 --> 14:05.680]  an air exclusion zone.
[14:05.680 --> 14:10.000]  The Council assured today that it obtained the commitment from the United States, Great
[14:10.000 --> 14:14.000]  Britain and France to have an air exclusion zone.
[14:14.000 --> 14:20.220]  General Al-Fatah Yunis, member of the rebel military council, assured that it will recover
[14:20.220 --> 14:24.560]  positions in the coastal area and in the eastern region of the country.
[14:24.560 --> 14:29.360]  We will resume control of those cities and will soon feel that our army advances towards
[14:29.360 --> 14:37.200]  Syrta and Tripoli. 100,000 volunteers joined forces of Gadhafi, Tripoli, March 14, ANSA.
[14:37.200 --> 14:42.080]  Some 100,000 volunteers joined forces armed with Libya from the beginning of the combat
[14:42.080 --> 14:48.160]  between the troops that support Muhammad al-Qadhafi and rebel groups, said today sources of the
[14:48.160 --> 14:49.160]  government.
[14:49.160 --> 14:56.040]  Bahrain, Opposition denounces occupation after arrival of Saudi soldiers. Manama, March 14,
[14:56.040 --> 15:03.680]  2011, the town of Bahrain faces a real danger. The one of a war against the Bahrain citizens
[15:03.680 --> 15:08.480]  without declaration of war, highlighted the seven members of the opposition, including
[15:08.480 --> 15:11.680]  Wefak Chihita, in a statement.
[15:11.680 --> 15:18.040]  We consider the entry of all soldiers, of all military vehicles to the land, air and
[15:18.040 --> 15:23.440]  maritime spaces of the Kingdom of Bahrain as a flagrant occupation, a conspiracy against
[15:23.440 --> 15:28.880]  the town of Bahrain, disarmament and a violation of agreements and international agreements,
[15:28.880 --> 15:30.800]  added the opposition.
[15:30.800 --> 15:38.280]  More protests in Yemen, Bahrain and Morocco. Manama and Aden, 13, ANSA. The protests
[15:38.280 --> 15:43.880]  continue today in Yemen, where three people died. Bahrain and Morocco, in complaints against
[15:43.880 --> 15:48.200]  the governments of those countries, reported today local sources.
[15:48.200 --> 15:53.440]  In Saudi Arabia, dozens of people gathered today near the headquarters of the Ministry
[15:53.440 --> 15:59.640]  of Interior in Riyadh to ask for the release of a group of activists arrested by the police.
[15:59.640 --> 16:06.080]  Manama, AAP. Decenas of thousands of protesters in Bahrain surrounded a royal palace on Saturday,
[16:06.080 --> 16:11.080]  where they demanded political freedoms and the resignation of the king one day after
[16:11.080 --> 16:16.040]  that security forces reprimanded with violence a similar protest.
[16:16.040 --> 16:22.840]  The mobilizations in this country are similar to Egypt and Tunisia. Bahrain has a peculiar
[16:22.840 --> 16:29.600]  importance for Washington because there stands out the fifth fleet of the United States army.
[16:29.600 --> 16:36.440]  United Arab Emirates are going to send troops to Bahrain. Dubai, March 14, 2011, AFP.
[16:36.440 --> 16:41.080]  The United Arab Emirates announced on Monday that they are going to send troops to Bahrain
[16:41.080 --> 16:48.040]  to preserve order and stability in that neighboring country, which has already reached the end of
[16:48.040 --> 16:54.440]  Saudi military. Manama, March 14, 2011, AFP. Bahrain's opposition
[16:54.440 --> 17:00.120]  said on Monday that any foreign military presence will be considered as an occupation
[17:00.120 --> 17:05.480]  when reacting to the arrival of Saudi troops to the kingdom. More than one billion Saudi
[17:05.480 --> 17:12.200]  troops, which are part of the common force of the Gulf Cooperation Council, arrived
[17:12.200 --> 17:18.160]  in Bahrain. They were welcomed by a wave of demonstrations, according to the AFP, a responsible
[17:18.160 --> 17:24.920]  Saudi. Mexico, AFP. The so-called rapid and furious operation in the United States, which
[17:24.920 --> 17:30.360]  presumably allowed the entry delivered to Mexico by almost 2,000 weapons, put in a
[17:30.360 --> 17:35.920]  delicate moment the relationship between both countries, according to experts, and caused the
[17:35.920 --> 17:40.360]  anger of Mexican legislators. If the United States act without including
[17:40.360 --> 17:46.240]  any Mexican importance, it is an totally unacceptable intermission and a clear
[17:46.240 --> 17:52.280]  evidence of Washington's distrust against Mexican police forces, said AFP Jorge
[17:52.280 --> 17:58.360]  Montaño, ex-Mexico ambassador in the United States. Mexico faces a spiral of unprecedented
[17:58.360 --> 18:05.560]  attacks that has left almost 35,000 deaths since December 2006 in confrontations between
[18:05.560 --> 18:11.320]  drug traffickers and anti-narcotic operations, in addition to hundreds of victims trapped
[18:11.320 --> 18:17.480]  in the crossfire. The Mexican Senate described rapid and furious as an aggressive, unilateral
[18:17.480 --> 18:21.400]  operation, and an aggravy to Mexico's sovereignty.
[18:21.400 --> 18:28.920]  On March 14, 15 and 4, this night, it was reported that reactor number two of the Central Fukushima
[18:28.920 --> 18:34.840]  1 was being destroyed after the emergency cooling systems were failed, which recorded
[18:34.840 --> 18:41.000]  the fears of radioactive contamination. On Saturday and this Monday, explosions occurred
[18:41.000 --> 18:47.440]  in reactors 1 and 3. Reactor number two works with a fuel called
[18:47.440 --> 18:54.840]  mezcla deóxidos, M-O-X, which contains plutonium, a substance especially harmful for health.
[18:54.840 --> 19:03.360]  Rome 14, Italian agency ANSA, a total of 442 nuclear reactors in the world, concentrated
[19:03.360 --> 19:09.760]  in 29 countries and built by no more than 10 companies. Europe, whose governments began
[19:09.760 --> 19:18.000]  to review its policy in the sector, has 148 active reactors in 16 countries. Already active,
[19:18.000 --> 19:23.720]  65 are added in construction phases. The world record for a number of nuclear reactors
[19:23.720 --> 19:32.120]  in operation in the United States, with 104, followed by France, 58, and Japan, 54.
[19:32.120 --> 19:40.080]  Notices from the last hour that they have just arrived in Cuba inform that there was a third
[19:40.080 --> 19:44.640]  explosion in Fukushima. F, 15 of March, 20 and 13, is feared of radioactive fusion of
[19:44.640 --> 19:50.800]  nuclear and a reactor in Fukushima. Tokyo, March 15, Spanish agency F, the operating company
[19:50.800 --> 19:56.120]  of the Fukushima nuclear power plant, north-east of Japan, recognized that it feared a radioactive
[19:56.120 --> 20:01.920]  fusion of a possible fusion of the nuclear reactor number two, which this morning suffered
[20:01.920 --> 20:08.440]  an explosion. Tokyo Electric Power, TEPCO, admitted that it may have emitted radiation
[20:08.440 --> 20:14.480]  after damaging the structure, which involves reactor number two, while the level of radioactivity
[20:14.480 --> 20:22.160]  in the area marked the 8,217 microsieverts per hour in front of the 500 allowed. It can
[20:22.160 --> 20:26.880]  be observed that the complex situation reigns in the Arab world, in which the peoples have
[20:26.880 --> 20:33.560]  unleashed a revolutionary wave. The Saudi king supports the war on the OTAN in Libya,
[20:33.560 --> 20:38.240]  while the OTAN supports the Saudi invasion in Bahrain. The blood of the Arab peoples
[20:38.240 --> 20:44.360]  will be drained in the benefit of the great US transnationals, while the oil prices will
[20:44.360 --> 20:51.040]  reach non-predecible limits as the wars are unleashed in the areas of greater production
[20:51.040 --> 20:56.040]  and nuclear disasters in Japan multiply the resistance of the peoples to the proliferation
[20:56.040 --> 21:01.640]  of nuclear plants. The defeat and the loss of capitalist consumption in its neoliberal
[21:01.640 --> 21:07.040]  and imperialist phase are taking the world to a road without a way out, where the climate
[21:07.040 --> 21:12.000]  change and the rising cost of food leads to thousands of millions of people towards
[21:12.000 --> 21:22.160]  the worst signs of poverty. Fidel Castro-Ruz, March 14, 2011, 9.35, Meridiano's past.
[21:22.160 --> 21:29.160]  Fidel Castro-Ruz, March 14, 2011, 9.35, Meridiano's past.
[21:52.160 --> 21:59.160]  Fidel Castro-Ruz, March 14, 2012, Meridiano's past.
[22:22.160 --> 22:29.160]  Fidel Castro-Ruz, March 14, 2012, Meridiano's past.
[22:53.160 --> 23:00.160]  In three of them, there have been explosions like this one yesterday in reactor 3. The last
[23:00.160 --> 23:03.760]  has been at night, at 2, and it is the most serious of all because it has damaged the wall
[23:03.760 --> 23:08.400]  of concrete that protects the reactor so that there are no radioactive escapes. So,
[23:08.400 --> 23:12.560]  both this accident and the fire that has been in reactor 4 have been able to cause
[23:12.560 --> 23:16.680]  some escape. For the time being, the Prime Minister has recognized in a press conference
[23:16.680 --> 23:22.960]  that the level of radiation in the area has increased. After that, it has been the
[23:22.960 --> 23:27.200]  government's report that has ensured that the level of radiation is worrying for
[23:27.200 --> 23:32.280]  health, and so far, the highest nuclear safety authority has said that the alert level
[23:32.280 --> 23:38.080]  in Fukushima is 6 on a scale of 7, and that there have been two consecutive explosions,
[23:38.080 --> 23:44.160]  and not one, which has suffered the reactor 2. In the center, there are only 50 workers
[23:44.160 --> 23:48.720]  trying to avoid a tragedy, and the cities less than 20 kilometers from the center are
[23:48.720 --> 23:53.440]  deserted, but the concern, as some Spanish residents in Tokyo have told us, reaches
[23:53.440 --> 23:58.240]  there, to 200 kilometers from Fukushima. The International Energy Agency has said
[23:58.240 --> 24:04.720]  that in the last hours, the radiation in the area has reduced to half.
[24:04.720 --> 24:09.240]  First they evacuated those who lived 10 kilometers from Fukushima, then they have been committed
[24:09.240 --> 24:14.120]  to rescue those who reside less than 20 kilometers from the center, and in the last
[24:14.120 --> 24:21.160]  hours, the Prime Minister Naoto Kan has recommended this to those who live less than 30 kilometers.
[24:21.160 --> 24:26.160]  We would like to ask you to stay inside the buildings, at home or in the office.
[24:26.160 --> 24:30.600]  Up to there, you are seeing it, the security perimeter arrives for now. The Japanese government,
[24:30.600 --> 24:35.040]  through the public television, recommended a few hours ago to close the windows, not
[24:35.040 --> 24:38.920]  to use ventilation systems, not to drink water from the ceiling, to be careful with the
[24:38.920 --> 24:44.440]  food they ingest, and even not to wear the clothes outside. And the replicas are happening,
[24:44.440 --> 24:48.760]  a new strong tremor has occurred in the area around Tokyo. The Japanese government
[24:48.760 --> 24:56.000]  speaks of around 3,400 dead and about 7,000 missing due to the earthquake and tsunami
[24:56.000 --> 25:00.400]  that occurred on Friday in that country, with which the number of victims will certainly
[25:00.400 --> 25:06.960]  exceed 10,000. Of the total of dead confirmed, something more than 1,000 have been identified.
[25:06.960 --> 25:12.440]  In Tokyo, the authorities have rescued about 25,000 people, including this man they have
[25:12.440 --> 25:17.640]  met with life, almost 100 hours after the earthquake. For the fourth consecutive day,
[25:17.640 --> 25:23.320]  rescue teams face the triple task of removing the ruins and debris on the coast in search
[25:23.320 --> 25:29.400]  of survivors or corpses, and also bringing help to the damaged in the areas that are
[25:29.400 --> 25:30.400]  isolated.
[25:30.400 --> 25:37.120]  In Tokyo, the activities are gradually renewed, despite the news that ensures that the radiation
[25:37.120 --> 25:45.120]  emitted from Fukushima has reached the city. Residents feel fear for their health.
[25:45.120 --> 25:48.600]  This citizen ensures that there is no need to worry about radiation due to the magnitude
[25:48.600 --> 25:55.680]  of the escape. However, he hopes that the government tells them the truth about this.
[25:55.680 --> 26:01.120]  In the meantime, food and medicine supply is already observed in Tokyo and the reserves
[26:01.120 --> 26:05.920]  are put in danger for the next few weeks. The tragedy that Fukushima lives is considered
[26:05.920 --> 26:11.920]  the worst nuclear accident since it occurred in Chernobyl, Ukraine in 1986.
[26:11.920 --> 26:17.080]  In the streets of Summa, devastation is part of the panorama. The high levels of radiation
[26:17.080 --> 26:22.640]  after the explosion of a third nuclear reactor in the Daishi complex represent a serious
[26:22.640 --> 26:29.680]  threat to those who still remain in the area. In the destroyed coast of Fukushima, this
[26:29.680 --> 26:34.480]  housewife says she doesn't know what to do and that she is worried about radiation.
[26:34.480 --> 26:41.600]  Well, and we saw some information from foreign TV about the situation in Japan, especially
[26:41.600 --> 26:46.680]  the social impact that has been very related to the thousands of lives that have been lost
[26:46.680 --> 26:51.600]  that have not yet been able to counteract and also with the impact that has had the
[26:51.600 --> 26:56.880]  tears in the explosions in nuclear plants in the nuclear reactors of several nuclear centers
[26:56.880 --> 27:02.120]  of that country, which of course has expanded the fear about the possibility of radiation
[27:02.120 --> 27:07.360]  and also of contamination in people. But there is also a fundamental economic impact,
[27:07.360 --> 27:12.440]  not only for Japan, for the Japanese economy, which has been presenting problems for several
[27:12.440 --> 27:18.480]  years, but also on an international and regional level. On that subject, I propose to talk
[27:18.480 --> 27:23.680]  with our specialist, but first see the material that I had previously promised you about this
[27:23.680 --> 27:24.680]  economic issue.
[27:24.680 --> 27:30.280]  After the earthquake, the incertidum has been empowered by the Japanese economy, played
[27:30.280 --> 27:33.520]  for more than two decades by the low growth and by the deflation.
[27:33.520 --> 27:39.720]  It comes from what has been called a lost decade. Japan has suffered a very, very strong
[27:39.720 --> 27:44.760]  crisis that is taking a long time to recover.
[27:44.760 --> 27:50.920]  Japan, a market of 127 million people, leader in electronics and automobiles, is the third
[27:50.920 --> 27:55.960]  world economy. The cuts in road lights remain paralyzed a large part of the industry
[27:55.960 --> 27:59.360]  and this complicates the display of its beginning to recover.
[27:59.360 --> 28:04.920]  Japan, that crisis was starting to come out in the last year, but unfortunately this
[28:04.920 --> 28:07.480]  earthquake has interrupted that recovery.
[28:07.480 --> 28:11.960]  In a short time, the earthquake has touched infrastructures and threatens tourism and
[28:11.960 --> 28:12.960]  consumption.
[28:12.960 --> 28:19.960]  The damage is between 100,000 and 200,000 million euros, with magnitude up to a certain
[28:19.960 --> 28:20.960]  point.
[28:20.960 --> 28:25.560]  The reconstruction of the country will shoot at the end of the public debt, equivalent
[28:25.560 --> 28:31.160]  to 200% of the gross domestic product, although the positive reading of analysts is that the
[28:31.160 --> 28:32.160]  investment will increase.
[28:32.160 --> 28:36.080]  The Japanese companies have to repatriate many of their investments that they had made
[28:36.080 --> 28:41.320]  abroad. That causes a repetition of divisions right now.
[28:41.320 --> 28:44.900]  The catastrophe of Japan will be left to feel, the experts say, and the accounts of
[28:44.900 --> 28:47.320]  insurance results and energy companies.
[28:47.320 --> 28:50.640]  At the moment, it has given to the yen that, since Thursday, has been revalued by more
[28:50.640 --> 28:53.640]  than 1.5%.
[28:53.640 --> 28:59.480]  And the figures are impressive. The central bank of Japan, we commented yesterday, has had
[28:59.480 --> 29:05.720]  to inject more than 180,000 million dollars into the Japanese economy and it is also
[29:05.720 --> 29:11.360]  said that the insurance companies of that country will have to inject more than 35,000 million
[29:11.360 --> 29:12.360]  dollars.
[29:12.360 --> 29:17.000]  What has been the impact, Gladys, that you, who have been studying the economy of the
[29:17.000 --> 29:20.040]  region for so many years, specifically the Chinese economy, the Japanese economy, what
[29:20.040 --> 29:26.480]  has been the real impact of this natural disaster in the Japanese economy that, as we
[29:26.480 --> 29:31.960]  said at the beginning, has already faced some problems, what are these problems and how
[29:31.960 --> 29:35.920]  is the situation now being recorded?
[29:35.920 --> 29:42.080]  Well, the experts have started a series of arguments, comments, but well, in good
[29:42.080 --> 29:50.200]  way it would be totally irresponsible to make a detainee approach on the possible
[29:50.200 --> 29:55.200]  impacts of this disaster because, as we have been observing, it really turns out
[29:55.200 --> 30:05.960]  that similar decisions are actually made, I would comment on that much, not on those
[30:05.960 --> 30:09.800]  other things that have happened in the last year, but it turns out that this is not
[30:09.800 --> 30:16.520]  a wishfuljäne in영 representations of stagnant crops, because of that.