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[01:09.000 --> 01:38.680]  Very good afternoon to the audience of the
[01:38.680 --> 01:43.400]  round table. Today we will be giving a follow-up to two important facts about its current state.
[01:43.400 --> 01:49.960]  The situation in Japan after that symptom of more than nine points on Richter's scale and that
[01:49.960 --> 01:55.640]  powerful tsunami that has left a whole social, political, economic drama and above all nuclear in
[01:55.640 --> 01:59.240]  that country. We will also be giving a follow-up to the situation in the Arab world,
[01:59.240 --> 02:04.880]  specifically in Libya, where international pressures continue on this conflict and also
[02:04.880 --> 02:10.360]  the loyal troops of leader Muammar al-Qadhafi continue to advance over the rebel zone.
[02:10.360 --> 02:16.400]  To talk about these topics, I have two guests today. Gladys Hernández, specialist in
[02:16.400 --> 02:21.360]  the research center of the world economy 100 and colleague Lionel Noval,
[02:21.360 --> 02:27.280]  journalist and analyst in international issues related to the Middle East and who has also been
[02:27.280 --> 02:36.400]  in charge of the Argentine press agency in many countries in that region. Today on the round table. The Japanese government
[02:36.400 --> 02:44.000]  talks about 3,400 dead and about 7,000 missing due to the earthquake and the tsunami that
[02:44.000 --> 02:49.560]  occurred on Friday in that country, with which the number of victims will certainly be more than 10,000.
[02:51.240 --> 02:54.760]  The earthquake, the incerti number, has strengthened from the Japanese economy,
[02:54.760 --> 02:58.720]  touched for more than two decades by the low growth and deflation.
[03:00.000 --> 03:05.840]  And the second most important city in Libya and the main opposite key lives in moments of tension.
[03:05.840 --> 03:11.560]  It is expected that in the coming days, the loyal forces of Muammar Gadhafi will enter that locality.
[03:14.440 --> 03:20.040]  And before I propose to read to you the most recent reflections of Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro
[03:20.040 --> 03:25.680]  on the disasters that threaten the world and that were published in the Cuban press this March 15,
[03:25.680 --> 03:33.760]  2011. Fidel says, if the speed of light did not exist, if the star closer to our sun did not have
[03:33.760 --> 03:40.240]  the light of the Earth four years ago, the only planet inhabited by our system, if the UFOs really existed,
[03:40.240 --> 03:45.360]  the imaginary visitors to the planet would continue to travel without understanding the things of our
[03:45.360 --> 03:51.280]  suffering humanity. It has been just a few centuries in the millennial history of man, no one knew what
[03:51.280 --> 03:56.920]  happened on the other side of the Terracid globe. Today we can know them instantaneously and sometimes
[03:56.920 --> 04:02.960]  they are events of great transcendence that affect all the peoples of the world. Without further introduction,
[04:02.960 --> 04:06.720]  I will limit myself to the most important news of the last two days.
[04:06.720 --> 04:15.720]  Telsur, March 13, 2011. The eruption of the volcano in Japan activates a new alarm. Japanese meteorological agency
[04:15.720 --> 04:21.200]  reported that the chimodake volcano located in the Yushu Island, northeast of Japan,
[04:21.200 --> 04:27.280]  rose this Sunday ashes and stones up to 4,000 meters high after two weeks of relatively
[04:27.280 --> 04:32.800]  calm and two days after the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit the country. It entered
[04:32.800 --> 04:38.960]  activity in January last for the first time in 52 years. According to a report from the BBC,
[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 --> 04:52.000]  of people fled from the surrounding panic bars. The seismic movement of magnitude 9.0
[04:52.000 --> 04:57.800]  on Richter's scale, according to Japan's meteorological agency, had already had repercussions in other
[04:57.800 --> 05:03.280]  volcanoes. Japan has been bombed by seismos, tsunamis and explosions in nuclear power plants.
[05:03.280 --> 05:12.120]  Sendai, Japan, March 14, 2011, AFP. A double explosion in reactor number three of the nuclear
[05:12.120 --> 05:18.040]  power plant of Fukushima-1 fed this Monday the fear of an atomic disaster in Japan,
[05:18.040 --> 05:23.920]  a country already bombed by a seismic and a tsunami that could have left more than 10,000 dead.
[05:23.920 --> 05:32.840]  Tokyo Electric Power TELPCO, operator of Fukushima-1, 250 kilometers northeast of Tokyo,
[05:32.840 --> 05:38.600]  among parentheses, also admitted the possibility that the fuel of reactor 2 had entered the
[05:38.600 --> 05:45.280]  fusion due to a leak in the cooling circuit. The government on its side minimized the possibility
[05:45.280 --> 05:52.160]  that an important explosion would occur in that reactor. The rescue teams found about
[05:52.160 --> 05:59.240]  2,000 corpses on the coast of Miyagi prefecture northeast, in which millions of Japanese
[05:59.240 --> 06:05.480]  tried to survive without water, electricity, fuel, food, enough and hundreds of thousands
[06:05.480 --> 06:11.760]  were forced to lie in centers of emergency due to the tsunami that destroyed their homes.
[06:11.760 --> 06:17.800]  Socorrists from all over the world came to the chipielago to collaborate with more than 100,000
[06:17.800 --> 06:23.160]  soldiers who are trying to provide assistance in a country that is still besieged by the replicas
[06:23.160 --> 06:28.600]  of the earthquake and in permanent assault due to the false alarms of new tsunamis.
[06:28.600 --> 06:34.200]  The fear of a nuclear disaster was added to the anguish caused by devastation.
[06:34.200 --> 06:40.480]  The seismic, the tsunami, the explosions in the centers face the country in its most serious
[06:40.480 --> 06:45.880]  crisis since the end of World War II, said the Prime Minister Naoto Kam.
[06:45.880 --> 06:51.440]  An explosion had occurred on Saturday in reactor number 1, which cost life to a
[06:51.440 --> 06:56.880]  technical error at 11. The fusion occurs because of the heating of the
[06:56.880 --> 07:03.960]  fuel bars that begin to melt like candles. The authorities decreed the state of emergency
[07:03.960 --> 07:10.520]  in a second nuclear plant, the one in Onagawa, northeast of the country. Another nuclear
[07:10.520 --> 07:16.280]  plant, the Tokai plant, suffered an avarice in its cooling system. The earthquake of magnitude
[07:16.280 --> 07:23.640]  8.9 and the subsequent tsunami of 10 meters high tore the north-east coast of the chipielago
[07:23.640 --> 07:28.320]  Nippon on Friday. More than 10,000 people could have lost their lives in Miyagi coastal
[07:28.320 --> 07:36.360]  perfection, northwest of Japan. At least 5.6 million homes are still without electricity.
[07:36.360 --> 07:44.400]  Data. What happens in Japan nuclear reactors? A question. March 14, Reuters. A second
[07:44.400 --> 07:48.960]  explosion occurred on the Japanese nuclear plant damaged by a earthquake, where the
[07:48.960 --> 07:55.480]  authorities work in a desperate way to avoid the fusion of the nuclear of the reactors.
[07:55.480 --> 08:01.680]  The nuclear of a reactor consists of a series of tubes or metal bars of its circumnium
[08:01.680 --> 08:09.080]  that contain fuel pellets, stored uranium in which the engineers call fuel teams.
[08:09.080 --> 08:14.280]  The cooling of support had problems several times during the last three days in the
[08:14.280 --> 08:21.520]  reactors 1, 2 and 3 in the Fukushima plant. However, the natural degradation of radioactive
[08:21.520 --> 08:28.160]  materials in the reactor core continues to produce heat, called residual heat, which
[08:28.160 --> 08:33.080]  falls to a quarter of its original level during the first hour and then disappears
[08:33.080 --> 08:40.880]  more slowly. Normally, that heat is eliminated by refrigeration bombs, which in the Fukushima
[08:40.880 --> 08:48.400]  plant lost its energy supply due to the earthquake, tsunami or both. It was that hydrogen gas
[08:48.400 --> 08:54.400]  that caused the two explosions in the Fukushima plant in unit 1 on Saturday and in reactor
[08:54.400 --> 09:01.480]  3 on Monday, according to experts and employees. If a steel dome were to be broken inside
[09:01.480 --> 09:07.720]  a reactor, radiation levels would rise, but at this point there is no enough heat
[09:07.720 --> 09:13.600]  to destroy them, they say experts. There is still the risk that the nuclear is found,
[09:13.600 --> 09:20.120]  which could cause a lot or even impossible to remove the fuel, which is what happened
[09:20.120 --> 09:28.760]  in 3 My Island in Pennsylvania in 1979, F-14 of March. The United States went far away
[09:28.760 --> 09:35.240]  from the Japanese coast by detecting radioactivity in 17 military units. The Pentagon reported
[09:35.240 --> 09:41.040]  that 17 military units that participated in the assistance work in Japan gave positive
[09:41.040 --> 09:46.640]  lower levels of radioactivity and that ordered temporarily repositioning the ships of the
[09:46.640 --> 09:54.400]  7th fleet with base in the Japanese city of Yokuzuka. The U.S. aircraft carrier Ronald
[09:54.400 --> 10:01.440]  Reagan was 160 kilometers to the northeast of the energy plant at the time of the escape
[10:01.440 --> 10:06.800]  after the tsunami that followed the earthquake of 9 degrees on the Richter scale that occurred
[10:06.800 --> 10:12.720]  in Japan. Fight for refrigeration reactors 2 and 3 of Fukushima and increase the number of
[10:12.720 --> 10:19.840]  dead. International reaction, March 14 of the F-agency, the responsible for the reactor
[10:19.840 --> 10:27.040]  2 of the Fukushima Japanese Center, try to refrigerate it after it could have suffered
[10:27.040 --> 10:32.800]  today a partial fusion due to overheating, as well as freeze the reactor 3 where there
[10:32.800 --> 10:38.120]  was an explosion that did not produce escape from radioactivity. While authorities are
[10:38.120 --> 10:43.760]  panicking to control nuclear risk, the number of dead victims of the earthquake that
[10:43.760 --> 10:50.360]  has caused the worst tragedy in Japan since World War II. The tremor could feel
[10:50.360 --> 10:56.240]  strong in Tokyo, the largest city in the world, with more than 30 million inhabitants, where
[10:56.240 --> 11:01.400]  the environment is sad and citizens resort to alternative means of transport, such as
[11:01.400 --> 11:07.000]  the bicycle, before the cuts of the electricity supply. Meteorological agency of the country
[11:07.000 --> 11:13.600]  warned the Japanese population of a week of replicas and 70 percent of probabilities
[11:13.600 --> 11:20.480]  that up to this Wednesday a 7-degree earthquake is recorded in Japan. Germany suspends for
[11:20.480 --> 11:28.040]  three months nuclear extension plans. Berlin, March 14, DPA German agency. The accident
[11:28.040 --> 11:33.120]  recorded this weekend in the Japanese plant of Fukushima due to the earthquake and
[11:33.120 --> 11:38.200]  later tsunami, which devastated the Asian country on Friday, has completely changed
[11:38.200 --> 11:43.840]  the global situation, said Merkel. Japan's accidents show that what we believe
[11:43.840 --> 11:49.600]  impossible is possible and the risks that we consider unlikely are not so unlikely,
[11:49.600 --> 11:55.960]  continues to point out. AFP, Yemen, three dead protesters, including a 12-year-old
[11:55.960 --> 12:11.080]  child, and hundreds were injured on Saturday in Yemen, where the victims accused the police
[12:11.080 --> 12:18.040]  of using toxic gases to dispel them. A manifestant died and about 300 were injured or
[12:18.040 --> 12:24.880]  intoxicated by gases. According to the UN, 37 protesters and at least six policemen died
[12:24.880 --> 12:30.760]  from the beginning of the riots in Yemen. Abu Dhabi, March 14, Reuters, the height of
[12:30.760 --> 12:36.960]  the prices of the crude, the recent and precipitated reduction of serial global assistance, could
[12:36.960 --> 12:42.760]  point out to a crisis of its minister, said the director of the FAB organization in English,
[12:42.760 --> 12:49.520]  Jack Thief, Reuters. The highest prices are worrying and we have a strong decrease
[12:49.520 --> 12:58.760]  in the number of deaths. London AFP AP, the Bayes System PLC, with central offices
[12:58.760 --> 13:05.040]  in Great Britain, subordinated Saudi Arabia's authorities to get millions of arms contracts
[13:05.040 --> 13:10.960]  according to a US diplomatic telegram, filtered and distributed by WikiLeaks.
[13:10.960 --> 13:20.080]  The Bayes, the biggest European defense contractor, had delivered more than 70 million pounds,
[13:20.080 --> 13:23.000]  the equivalent of 113 million dollars, to a Saudi prince.
[13:23.000 --> 13:29.080]  F. Aston does not discard the possibility of imposing an air exclusion zone on Libya. The
[13:29.080 --> 13:34.560]  responsible for the foreign policy of the European Union, Catherine Aston, did not discard
[13:34.560 --> 13:40.280]  today in Cairo the possibility of imposing an air exclusion zone on Libya after meeting
[13:40.280 --> 13:44.360]  with the Secretary General of the Arab League, Amr Moussa.
[13:44.360 --> 13:51.640]  Tripoli, March 14, ANSA, the forces of Muhammad al-Qadhafi, attacked today Abdabidya,
[13:51.640 --> 13:56.920]  east of Libya and the location of Subwara, northwest, while the National Council of
[13:56.920 --> 14:02.280]  Opposition assured that it will recover positions and said that it has international commitment
[14:02.280 --> 14:08.560]  to establish an air exclusion zone. The Council assured today that it obtained the commitment
[14:08.560 --> 14:14.680]  of the United States, Great Britain and France to have an air exclusion zone. The General
[14:14.680 --> 14:21.040]  Ab al-Fatah Yunis, member of the rebel military council, assured that they will recover positions
[14:21.040 --> 14:24.560]  in the coastal area and in the eastern region of the country.
[14:24.560 --> 14:29.280]  We will resume control of those cities and will soon feel that our army advances to
[14:29.280 --> 14:37.200]  Assyrt and Tripoli. 100,000 volunteers joined the forces of Gadhafi, Tripoli, March 14, ANSA.
[14:37.200 --> 14:42.240]  100,000 volunteers joined the armed forces of Libya from the beginning of the combats,
[14:42.240 --> 14:49.200]  among the troops that repel Muhammad al-Qadhafi and rebel groups, said today sources of government.
[14:49.200 --> 14:56.000]  Bahrain, opposition denounced occupation after arrival of Saudi soldiers. Manama, March 14,
[14:56.000 --> 15:02.040]  2011 AFP. The people of Bahrain face a real danger. The one of a war against the
[15:02.040 --> 15:07.920]  Bahrain citizens, without declaration of war, highlighted the seven members of the opposition,
[15:07.920 --> 15:14.520]  including Wefak Chihita, in a statement. We consider the entry of all soldiers,
[15:14.520 --> 15:20.040]  of all military vehicles to the terrestrial, air, or maritime spaces of the Bahrain kingdom
[15:20.040 --> 15:26.200]  as a flagrant occupation, a conspiracy against the people of Bahrain, disarmament and a violation
[15:26.200 --> 15:32.560]  of international agreements and agreements, added the opposition. More protests in Yemen, Bahrain
[15:32.560 --> 15:39.480]  and Morocco. Manama and Aden, 13, ANSA. Protest demonstrations continue today in Yemen,
[15:39.480 --> 15:44.760]  where three people died. Bahrain and Morocco, in complaints against the governments of those
[15:44.760 --> 15:51.040]  countries, reported today local sources. In Saudi Arabia, dozens of people gathered today
[15:51.040 --> 15:56.640]  near the headquarters of the Ministry of Interior in Riyadh to ask for the release of a group
[15:56.640 --> 16:02.880]  of activists arrested by the police. Manama, AFP. Tens of thousands of protesters
[16:02.880 --> 16:08.640]  in Bahrain surrounded a royal palace on Saturday, where they demanded political freedoms and
[16:08.640 --> 16:13.800]  the resignation of the king one day after the security forces reprimanded with violence
[16:13.800 --> 16:20.920]  a similar protest. The mobilizations in this country are similar to Egypt and Tunisia.
[16:20.920 --> 16:27.280]  Yemen has a peculiar importance for Washington because there stands out the fifth fleet of the
[16:27.280 --> 16:34.360]  United States. United Arab Emirates are going to send troops to Bahrain. Dubai, March 14,
[16:34.360 --> 16:40.440]  2011, AFP. The United Arab Emirates announced on Monday that they are going to send troops
[16:40.440 --> 16:46.640]  to Bahrain to contribute to preserve order and stability in that neighboring country, which
[16:46.640 --> 16:53.840]  already arrived with the same Saudi military end. Manama, March 14, 2011, AFP. The opposition
[16:53.840 --> 16:58.840]  of Bahrain affirmed on Monday that any foreign military presence will be considered
[16:58.840 --> 17:04.360]  as an occupation when reacting to the arrival of Saudi troops to the kingdom. More than
[17:04.360 --> 17:10.680]  a billion Saudi soldiers who are part of the common force of the Gulf Cooperation Council
[17:10.680 --> 17:19.840]  came to Bahrain, welcomed by a wave of demonstrations, as indicated by the AFP, a responsible Saudi.
[17:19.840 --> 17:25.800]  Mexico AFP, the so-called rapid and furious operation in the United States, which presumably
[17:25.800 --> 17:31.840]  allowed the entry to Mexico to almost 2,000 weapons, put in a delicate moment the relationship
[17:31.840 --> 17:38.160]  between both countries, according to experts, and caused the discomfort of a Mexican legislator.
[17:38.160 --> 17:43.600]  And the United States, without including any Mexican importance, is a totally unacceptable
[17:43.600 --> 17:50.840]  intermission and a clear sample of Washington's distrust against Mexican police forces,
[17:50.840 --> 17:57.200]  commented on the AFP, Jorge Montaño, ex-Mexico ambassador in the United States. Mexico faces
[17:57.200 --> 18:02.880]  a spiral of unprecedented violence that has left almost 35,000 deaths since December
[18:02.880 --> 18:09.320]  2006, in confrontations between drug traffickers and anti-narcotic operations, in addition to
[18:09.320 --> 18:15.880]  a hundred victims trapped in the crossfire. The Mexican Senate described rapid and furious
[18:15.880 --> 18:21.320]  as an aggressive and unilateral operation, and an aggravation to the sovereignty of Mexico.
[18:21.320 --> 18:28.040]  IPS, March 14, 15 and 4. This night, it was reported that reactor number two of the
[18:28.040 --> 18:34.400]  Central Fukushima-1 was being destroyed after the emergency cooling systems were failed,
[18:34.400 --> 18:41.040]  which recorded the fears of radioactive contamination. On Saturday and this Monday, explosions occurred
[18:41.040 --> 18:47.440]  in reactors 1 and 3. Reactor number two works with fuel called
[18:47.440 --> 18:54.880]  oxidized M-O-X, which contains plutonium, a substance especially harmful for health.
[18:54.880 --> 19:01.920]  On March 14, the Italian agency ANSA, a total of 442 nuclear reactors are active in the
[19:01.920 --> 19:08.600]  world, concentrated in 29 countries and built by no more than 10 companies. Europe, whose
[19:08.600 --> 19:15.240]  governments began today to review its policy in the sector, has 148 active reactors in
[19:15.240 --> 19:22.040]  16 countries. To those already active, 65 are added in construction phases. The world record
[19:22.040 --> 19:28.200]  for a number of nuclear reactors in operation in the United States, with 104, followed by
[19:28.200 --> 19:32.120]  France, 58, and Japan, 54.
[19:32.120 --> 19:36.120]  News from the last hour that they have just arrived in Cuba inform that there was a third
[19:36.120 --> 19:45.040]  explosion in Fukushima. F, March 15, 2013, 7m radioactive escape from the nuclear fusion
[19:45.040 --> 19:47.120]  of a reactor in Fukushima.
[19:47.120 --> 19:52.520]  On March 15, Tokyo, its Spanish agency F, the operating company of the Fukushima nuclear
[19:52.520 --> 19:57.920]  center, north-east of Japan, recognized that it feared an active radio escape due to a possible
[19:57.920 --> 20:03.640]  fusion of the nuclear reactor number two, which this morning suffered an explosion.
[20:03.640 --> 20:09.600]  Tokyo Electric Power TEPCO admitted that it may have emitted radiation after being damaged
[20:09.600 --> 20:14.640]  by the structure that involves reactor number two, while the levels of radioactivity in
[20:14.640 --> 20:21.920]  the area marked the 8,217 microsieverts per hour in front of the 500 allowed.
[20:21.920 --> 20:26.880]  The complex situation can be observed reigning in the Arab world, in which the peoples have
[20:26.880 --> 20:30.480]  unleashed a revolutionary wave. Fidel continues.
[20:30.480 --> 20:35.040]  The Saudi king supports the war of Laotan in Libya, while in Bahrain, Laotan supports
[20:35.040 --> 20:40.720]  the Saudi invasion. The blood of the Arab peoples will be drained for the benefit of the great
[20:40.720 --> 20:45.400]  transnational resources of the United States, while the oil prices will reach unpredictable
[20:45.400 --> 20:52.680]  limits as the wars are unleashed in areas of greater production and nuclear disasters
[20:52.680 --> 20:57.840]  from Japan multiply the resistance of the peoples to the proliferation of nuclear plants.
[20:57.840 --> 21:03.160]  The defeat and the society of capitalist consumption in its neoliberal and imperialist phase are
[21:03.160 --> 21:08.000]  taking the world to a road without exit, where the climate change and the growing cost
[21:08.000 --> 21:14.640]  of food lead to thousands of millions of people towards the worst signs of poverty.
[21:14.640 --> 21:22.080]  Fidel Castro-Ruz, March 14, 2011, 9.35, Meridian past.
[21:22.080 --> 21:27.440]  And now, the reflections of our commander-in-chief, Fidel Castro-Ruz, are concluded. We begin
[21:27.440 --> 21:33.040]  our round table, the topics that occupy our round table, the first of them, the situation
[21:33.040 --> 21:50.040]  in Japan.
[21:50.040 --> 21:56.400]  And before I start our analysis with our guest, Grady, I propose to read some of the most
[21:56.400 --> 22:01.680]  recent information that is known in Japan. A very strong replica from the province of
[22:01.680 --> 22:06.840]  Chikuosa in the northeast of Tokyo says that a 6-degree earthquake on the open scale
[22:06.840 --> 22:12.240]  of Richter occurred this Tuesday in the southwest of Tokyo, in the province of Chikuoka, according
[22:12.240 --> 22:17.040]  to the Japan Meteorological Agency. And it says that the tremor has also caused
[22:17.040 --> 22:21.540]  material damage in that region. The nuclear power plant of Fukushima, of which so much
[22:21.540 --> 22:25.640]  has been talked about these days and Fidel also refers to it in his reflections, reached
[22:25.640 --> 22:31.400]  the level of 6 nuclear alerts. Remember that they are within the level of 7, it is
[22:31.400 --> 22:36.760]  above, and Fukushima reaches the level of 6. And it is also talked about, according to some
[22:36.760 --> 22:43.280]  media, that the economic impact of the disaster in Japan will exceed 2% of the internal product
[22:43.280 --> 22:48.400]  of this country. About the economic repercussion in that country is the following material that
[22:48.400 --> 22:49.400]  we propose.
[22:49.400 --> 23:03.520]  The last one has been at night, at 2, and it is the most serious of all because it has damaged
[23:03.520 --> 23:08.360]  the concrete wall that protects the reactor so that there are no radioactive escapes. So
[23:08.360 --> 23:12.560]  both this accident and the fire that has been in the reactor 4 have been able to cause
[23:12.560 --> 23:17.720]  some escape. Soon the Prime Minister has recognized in a press conference that the level of radiation
[23:17.720 --> 23:22.640]  in the area has increased.
[23:22.640 --> 23:26.120]  After that has been the government's report that has ensured that the level of radiation
[23:26.120 --> 23:31.480]  is worrying for health, and until now the maximum nuclear safety authority has said
[23:31.480 --> 23:36.520]  that the alert level in Fukushima is 6 on a scale of 7, and that there have been two
[23:36.520 --> 23:42.360]  consecutive explosions, and not one, which has suffered the reactor 2. In the central
[23:42.360 --> 23:47.760]  city there are only 50 workers trying to avoid a tragedy, and the cities, at least 20 kilometers
[23:47.760 --> 23:52.640]  from the center, are deserted, but the concern, as some Spanish residents have told us
[23:52.640 --> 23:56.320]  in Tokyo, reaches there, at 200 kilometers from Fukushima.
[23:56.320 --> 23:59.800]  The International Agency for Atomic Energy has said that in the last few hours the radiation
[23:59.800 --> 24:04.720]  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 --> 24:14.480]  to rescue those who reside at least 20 kilometers from the center, and in the last few hours
[24:14.480 --> 24:21.160]  the Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, has recommended this to those who live at least 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]  Until then, what you are seeing reaches the security perimeter for now. The Japanese government,
[24:30.600 --> 24:36.080]  through public television, recommended a few hours, close the windows, do not use ventilation
[24:36.080 --> 24:41.000] , do not drink water from the tap, be careful with the food they ingest, and even do not
[24:41.000 --> 24:42.480]  wear the clothes outside.
[24:42.480 --> 24:47.800]  And the replicas are happening, a new strong tremor has occurred in the area of Tokyo.
[24:47.800 --> 24:54.760]  The Japanese government speaks of about 3,400 dead and about 7,000 missing due to the earthquake
[24:54.760 --> 25:00.040]  and tsunami that occurred on Friday in that country, so the number of victims will be for
[25:00.040 --> 25:02.280]  sure that it will exceed 10,000.
[25:02.280 --> 25:06.960]  The total of dead confirmed, something more than 1,000, have been identified. According
[25:06.960 --> 25:12.360]  to official sources, about 25,000 people have been rescued, including this man who
[25:12.360 --> 25:17.640]  has been found alive 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 taking help to the damaged in the areas that are
[25:29.400 --> 25:30.400]  isolated.
[25:30.400 --> 25:37.120]  In Tokyo, activities are renewed gradually, despite the news that they ensure that the radiation
[25:37.120 --> 25:45.120]  emitted from Fukushima 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, the government hopes to tell them the truth about this.
[25:55.680 --> 26:00.960]  In the meantime, food and medicine supplies are already observed in Tokyo and put in danger
[26:00.960 --> 26:05.960]  the reserves for the next few weeks. The tragedy that Fukushima lives is considered
[26:05.960 --> 26:11.920]  the worst nuclear accident since it occurred in Chernobyl, Ukraine in 1986.
[26:11.920 --> 26:17.120]  In the streets of Summa, devastation is part of the panorama. The levels of radiation
[26:17.120 --> 26:22.040]  raised after the explosion of a third nuclear reactor in the Daishi complex represent
[26:22.040 --> 26:29.680]  a serious threat to those who remain in the area. In the destroyed coast of Fukushima,
[26:29.680 --> 26:36.600]  this housewife says she does not know what to do and that she is worried about radiation.
[26:36.600 --> 26:41.640]  Well, and we saw some information from foreign TV about the situation in Japan, especially
[26:41.640 --> 26:46.720]  the social impact that has been very related to the thousands of lives that have been lost
[26:46.720 --> 26:52.120]  that have not yet been able to counteract and also with the impact that has had the
[26:52.120 --> 26:56.440]  tears in the explosions in the nuclear plants in the nuclear reactors of several nuclear
[26:56.440 --> 27:02.120]  centers in that country, which of course has expanded the fear of 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 --> 27:12.480]  not only for Japan, but for the Japanese economy that has been presenting problems for several
[27:12.480 --> 27:18.480]  years, but also on an international and regional level. On that topic, I propose to talk
[27:18.480 --> 27:23.560]  with our specialist, but first see the material that I had promised you previously about
[27:23.560 --> 27:24.720]  this economic issue.
[27:24.720 --> 27:30.320]  After the earthquake, the incertinum has been empowered by the Japanese economy, touched
[27:30.320 --> 27:33.520]  for more than two decades by the low growth and deflation.
[27:33.520 --> 27:40.040]  It comes from what has been called a lost decade. Japan suffered a very, very strong
[27:40.040 --> 27:45.000]  crisis, which is taking a lot of time to recover.
[27:45.000 --> 27:50.920]  Japan, a market of 127 million people, leader in electronics and automobiles, is the third
[27:50.920 --> 27:55.760]  world economy. The cuts in road lights remain paralyzed to a large part of the
[27:55.760 --> 27:59.160]  industry, and this complicates the display of its beginning to recover.
[27:59.160 --> 28:04.960]  Japan, that crisis was starting to come out in the last year, but unfortunately this
[28:04.960 --> 28:07.760]  earthquake has interrupted that recovery.
[28:07.760 --> 28:11.840]  In a short time, the earthquake has touched the infrastructure and threatens tourism
[28:11.840 --> 28:12.840]  and consumption.
[28:12.840 --> 28:18.240]  Estimations that there are of the damage are between 100,000 and 200,000 million euros,
[28:18.240 --> 28:21.320]  with magnitudes up to a certain acceptable point.
[28:21.320 --> 28:25.560]  The reconstruction of the country will shoot at the very end of the public debt, equivalent
[28:25.560 --> 28:30.440]  to 200% of the gross domestic product. Although the positive reading of the analysts
[28:30.440 --> 28:31.800]  is that the investment will increase.
[28:31.800 --> 28:35.800]  Japan's security companies have to repatriate many of their investments that they had
[28:35.800 --> 28:41.320]  done abroad. That causes a repatriation of shares right now.
[28:41.320 --> 28:44.880]  The catastrophe of Japan will stop feeling, the experts say, and the accounts of
[28:44.880 --> 28:47.600]  security results and energy companies.
[28:47.600 --> 28:49.160]  At the moment, it has given to the salient that more than a half percent has been revalued since
[28:49.160 --> 28:50.160]  Thursday.
[28:50.160 --> 28:58.800]  And well, the figures are impressive. The central bank of Japan, we commented on it
[28:58.800 --> 29:04.720]  yesterday, has had to inject more than 180 million dollars into the economy of Japan
[29:04.720 --> 29:09.720]  and it is also said that the insurers of that country will have to invest more than 35
[29:09.720 --> 29:12.080]  billion dollars.
[29:12.080 --> 29:16.760]  What has been the impact, Gladys, that you, who have been studying the economy of the
[29:16.760 --> 29:20.040]  region for so many years, specifically the Chinese economy, the Japanese economy?
[29:20.040 --> 29:26.200]  What has been the real impact of this natural disaster in the Japanese economy, which,
[29:26.200 --> 29:30.800]  as we said at the beginning, has already faced problems since a few years ago?
[29:30.800 --> 29:35.320]  What are these problems and how did the situation come to be recorded now?
[29:35.320 --> 29:42.040]  Well, the experts have started a series of arguments, comments, but well, in a good
[29:42.040 --> 29:50.680]  way it would be totally irresponsible to make a detainment on the possible impacts
[29:50.680 --> 30:01.840]  of this disaster because, as we have been observing, it really turns out to be...