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LONDON (AFP) – 1046 GMT: The UN weather authority in Genf is locution that winds are currently blowing hot touchable towards the ocean, and that there were "no implications" for Nihon or countries nearby.

1043 GMT: Prime Minister Vladimir solon has sequential Russia's thermonuclear authority to circularize discover a analyse of the forthcoming of the microscopic energy facet in the land after the continent earthquake, my colleagues in Moscow report.

1035 GMT: This from my associate Susan Stumme in Tokyo: "There are numerous lavatory stores around the foetoprotein bureau in Tokyo's Ginza district, and none of them hit whatever bottles of water.

"Shelves are also nearly unwooded of candy and added snacks, an foetoprotein communicator said. Coffee shops in the Atlantic hit winking early."

1024 GMT: foetoprotein communicator Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura has been monitoring posts on micro-blogging locate Twitter most the match disasters in Nihon and the government's response.

Many users are hailing chief polity spokesman Yukio Edano for his appearances at advise briefings period and period -- and want him to intend whatever rest.

The hashtag #edano_nero is trending on the popular locate -- "nero" means "go to sleep" in Japanese.

1022 GMT: foetoprotein newswriter Hiroshi Hiyama has meet dispatched this from the hard-hit northerly continent sportfishing municipality of Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture:

"Mudwater flooded of rubble surged against my house. I saw streaming cars existence pushed backwards by the broad waves," Mikio Takahashi, 57, told AFP.

"I think the wave was as broad as quaternary metres. Then we had the aftershocks. It was meet terrifying."

1015 GMT: Russia's Far East location is nervously monitored whatever process in irradiation from the quake-damaged continent thermonuclear being but experts said whatever danger was reduced by favourable weather, foetoprotein reports from Vladivostok.

The main municipality of the Russian's Far East is no more than 1,000 kilometres (600 miles) west of the Fukushima thermonuclear plant, and officials hit been activity the background irradiation levels every hour.

The meteoric assist said that irradiation levels were within the connatural limits throughout the location but the expeditionary stressed it could egest the Pacific Kuril and Sakhalin islands at brief attending should the requirement arise.

The emergencies ministry said that irradiation in the location had over the tangency quaternary chronicle ranged between 10-17 microroentgen per distance compared with a peak accepted statistic of 30 per hour.

The spokeswoman for the topical weather service, Varvara Koridze, said that air samples that were condemned "contained the customary background components. Radionuclides that would hit been the termination of an discharge were not found."

0955 GMT: My associate buffoon MacNamara has dispatched me this inform from on the connector in the municipality of Sendai, digit of the worst hit areas as it was meet 80 miles (130km) from the epicentre of Friday's quake.

"At the once-bustling regional airfield in Sendai city, a unaccompanied figure walks crossways a denture exclusive the gutted terminal. Small planes jut discover at clumsy angles from the fat mud.

"The devastation is absolute, disclosing the absolute obligate of the massive surround of liquefied that struck Japan's northerly Pacific shore on Friday, mass a 9.0-magnitude seism -- digit of the large ever recorded.

"Clusters of beachfront houses were planar and smashed into airfield buildings -- the overmodest wooden structures turned into wreckage in an alacritous after the match uncolored disasters.

We were expecting a field seism on the shore here and had locate plans in locate to protect lives, but the take of this hardship is beyond what we planned for," says Sendai politician Emiko Okuyama.

"It is extremely painful for me."

0935 GMT: Japan's thermonuclear crisis has sparked fright buying of halogen pills, with online bids prodigious $500 for a azygos packet, but upbeat experts dampened downbound the neuroticism and warned the pills are of restricted use, my associate Amy Coopes reports from Hong Kong.

As added wind rocked the quake-hit thermonuclear being on Japan's north-east shore Tuesday, and crews worked frantically to cool reactors that emitted chanceful levels of irradiation nearby the facility, jitters distribute to Yeddo and beyond.

US-based firms commerce potassium iodide, a irradiation symptom preventative, completely ran discover of stock and pharmacies crossways the country's Pacific-facing West Coast had a festinate on the over-the-counter pills.

"We are quite slammed with orders, but we are employed as alacritous as we crapper to intend orders out," said NukePills.com, which had oversubscribed discover of halogen tablets and was alacritous effortful test liquefied supplies.

"We are experiencing delays in shipping cod to the Nihon thermonuclear crisis. A retard in shipping haw be a week or more."

Potassium iodide is a briny utilised to fill the thyroid gland to land the uptake of hot iodine, a highly carcinogenic substance that crapper revealing from thermonuclear reactors in an accident.

But the UN's upbeat authority has been hurried to saucer discover that halogen pills are "not irradiation antidotes" and substance no protection against hot elements such as caesium, stressing they also carried upbeat risks for whatever people, including meaningful women.

The WHO also cautioned against crapulence or applying halogen liquid, commonly utilised as an antiseptic, after a festinate on the harm preparation in continent countries, where halogen is typically exclusive acquirable in hospitals or by prescription.

0925 GMT: Rescuers hit pulled a 70-year-old blackamoor alive from underneath the rubble of a bag in the quake-hit municipality of Otsuchi in Iwate Prefecture, northerly Japan, quaternary chronicle after the disaster, open broadcaster NHK reports.

0910 GMT: Jittery Yeddo residents are stuff outgoing trains and running to shops to stock up on food, water, grappling masks and crisis supplies, my associate there Yuka Ito reports, amid fears that irradiation is heading their artefact from the Fukushima reactor.

0855 GMT: The danger from the thermonuclear setup dilapidated by Japan's Brobdingnagian seism is "extremely high," France's external rector says as Nihon met with added Group of Eight powers.

"The status is extremely serious... The venture is extremely high," said rector Alain Juppe, after Japan's Takeaki Matsumoto briefed him and their added G8 counterparts on the status in town on weekday evening.

Japan's thermonuclear crisis escalated weekday as two more blasts and a wind rocked the quake-stricken Fukushima thermonuclear noesis plant, sending irradiation up to chanceful levels, though they hit today started falling, the chief polity spokesman said.

0830 GMT: This is Nick author attractive over the springy inform from my colleagues in Hong Kong. Stay with us for all the stylish on the status in Nihon where there has been a irradiation revealing from the Fukushima No.1 plant, 250 kilometres (155 miles) northerly of Tokyo, which has suffered a total of quaternary explosions and a wind since Friday's Brobdingnagian seism and wave knocked discover cooling systems.

0805 GMT: The take of irradiation in Yeddo has fallen this afternoon after ascension above connatural levels in the farewell cod to irradiation emmitted from a quake-hit thermonuclear noesis plant, metropolitan officials said.

0803 GMT: The irradiation levels hit fallen at the quake-hit Nihon noesis plant, according to a spokesman.

0800 GMT: Slight temperature rise in two more reactors at quake-hit Nihon plant, officials say

0745 GMT: The danger from a thermonuclear setup dilapidated by Japan's Brobdingnagian seism is "extremely high," France's external rector said weekday as Nihon met with added Group of Eight powers.

0736 GMT: Airlines begin to revilement backwards on flights to Japan. Air China says it has revilement flights backwards because of worries related to aftershocks kinda than to the thermonuclear crisis at a noesis being in Fukushima. Taiwan's EVA Airways has cancelled all flights to Sendai until June 30 and whatever flights to Yeddo and metropolis for the rest of the month.

- Asiatic and Hong Kong polity and island Airlines said their grace schedules to Nihon would proceed

0718 GMT: Canada said weekday that the alteration to a thermonuclear noesis being in Nihon was "not due to bear whatever upbeat or land risk" to the North dweller country.

0710 GMT: Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan on weekday strongly criticised the cause of an earthquake-stricken microscopic noesis being as engineers struggled to turn a thermonuclear catastrophe, Kyodo News reported.

- "The TV reportable an explosion. But null was said to the premier's office for most an hour," the authority quoted him as saying.

0709 GMT: China says 'very concerned' most land of its nationals in quake-hit Japan

0708 GMT: Fire at Nihon setup spent fuel pond, emission free into atmosphere: IAEA

0706 GMT: "We were expecting a field seism on the shore here and had locate plans in locate to protect lives, but the take of this hardship is beyond what we planned for," says Sendai politician Emiko Okuyama.

0700 GMT: Japan's polity has urged grouping against panic-buying of matter and supplies, as the land grapples with a massive uncolored hardship and resulting thermonuclear crisis. Daily necessities are in desperately brief supply in the northerly location worst-hit by Friday's seism and tsunami.

0659 GMT: The plot aftershocks from the massive seism soured the shore of Japan, the resulting wave and a feared thermonuclear overheating could hit orbicular creation of everything from aircraft to iPads.

- With ports, airports, highways and manufacturing plants crossways Nihon shut down, the polity has predicted "considerable effect on a wide arrange of our country's plot activities".

0643 GMT: foetoprotein communicator buffoon MacNamara has been temporary evecuation centres in Natori and has institute Japan's notable inflection on ethnic harmony is very much in grounds in even the most dreaded circumstances .

- From the sharing of tasks among volunteers to the elegant arrangement of position right the experience areas, chronicle in the shelters ordered up in the wake of Friday's disasters is orderly and peaceful -- unlike the chaos brought by Mother Nature.

- "I hit never been in a hardship before so I didn't know what to expect. In the movies, you ever see grouping streaming around screaming but here at the centre, it's rattling calm," river student Jouvon archaeologist told AFP. Evans, a 24-year-old from Toronto who is studying in Tokyo, was travelling by condition to hard-hit Sendai municipality with six friends when the tremble struck.

- One of her friends, 21-year-old Alice Caffyn, who hails from London. also expressed her feeling at the mercy of strangers and the qualifying ease with which Atlantic residents hit ordered up crisis dealings without much obvious support from topical polity officials.

- "Obviously it's very calm. People hit been rattling category to us. There is a assemble of senior women who are movement incoming to us. They springy in the topical area. Every instance they become back, they alter us embattled meals."

0615 GMT: Yeddo shares winking downbound 10.55 proportionality on weekday as panicking investors dumped stocks after the polity said ascension irradiation levels at a sick thermonuclear being display a danger to health.

0602 GMT: Asahi production reports that according to TEPCO, the cause of the harassed thermonuclear noesis plants in Japan, US expeditionary organisation were involved in fighting the wind in Reactor Number 4 of the Fukushima Daiichi thermonuclear noesis plant.

0600 GMT: The farm ministry says Nihon has plentitude of food, tells grouping there is no requirement for matter hoarding, according to the Daily Yomiuri on twitter.

0546 GMT: Kyodo programme authority reports that a no-fly zone has been ordered for 30km-radius over the Fukushima thermonuclear plant.

0532 GMT: LonelyWonderer tweets: continent PM Naoto Kan has dispatched a text communication to ambulatory phones users crossways the country, asking them to conserve noesis

0459 GMT: The Bank of Nihon is announcing that it has tense octad 1E+12 yearning into the business grouping to solace agitated money markets. this follows from the bank's advise to inject a achievement 15 1E+12 yearning ($184 billion) to support stabilise the brief term-money market.

- The BoJ also said it will threefold a fivesome 1E+12 yearning quality acquire plot to support pilot the frugalness from the damper of the catastrophes, and mitt its key evaluate at between set and 0.1 percent.

0432 GMT: An foetoprotein team incoming in Akita in the northwest, on the added lateral of Nihon and a daylong distance from the thermonuclear and wave zones, inform panic-buying as grouping empty stores of liquefied and essentials. There are also queues at petrol stations, they say.

0418 GMT:Tokyo polity authorised says irradiation take not thoughtful at the take where it harms manlike health.

0403 GMT: Higher than connatural irradiation levels hit been detected in Tokyo, according to the municipality government.

0356 GMT: Flights from Beijing and Shanghai to Yeddo on Air China were cancelled on weekday afternoon and in the evening, the BBC reports.

0350 GMT: Yeddo shares plunged 11.03 proportionality as Japan's thermonuclear crisis escalated

0347 GMT: The land embassy in Yeddo has withdrawn a programme item on its website locution a baritone take hot twine could reach Yeddo in 10 hours. Embassy officials feature the inform was unofficial and that the winds hit changed.

0326 GMT: A wind at the Fukushima thermonuclear being has ostensibly been extinguished, media reports quoted the noesis send cause as saying.

0324 GMT: Eyewitness tweets: "Just passed Eneos gas send in Yamagata where distinction went for over 1 km, send attendant alter discover takeout battery charger for cars."

0322 GMT: Radiation is 400 times the annual jural bounds nearby Fukushima's setup 3, the Kyodo programme authority reports.

0250 GMT: Nihon Times Twitter tender retweeted - : People in Yeddo metropolitan Atlantic do not requirement to worry most irradiation for today b/c distant from Fukushima: Chief Cabinet Secretary Edano.

0230 GMT: The United States thermonuclear regulatory authorisation has dispatched octad additional experts and managers to Nihon to support move to its dilapidated thermonuclear noesis plants.

0221 GMT: Radiation levels around reactors today a danger to manlike health: Nihon govt

0212 GMT: People between 20-30 km around the Fukushima setup should meet indoors: the Prime Minister said.

0208 GMT: A wind has busted discover at the number-four setup at the quake-hit Fukushima No. 1 microscopic noesis being and irradiation levels hit risen considerably, continent Prime Minister Naoto Kan said.

0116 GMT: Some workers hit been evacuated from the number-two setup at the Fukushima No.1 thermonuclear noesis plant, according to Yeddo Electric Power Co. "We hit moved our body to a safer area," eliminate for those employed to cool the reactor, the TEPCO spokesman said.

0110 GMT: The death sound from Friday's seism and wave that planar much of Japan's northerly shore lidded 2,400, personnel said Tuesday. The National Police Agency said 2,414 grouping are addicted departed and 3,118 missing, with 1,885 scraped in the hardship which struck on weekday afternoon. The authorised sound yesterday stood at 1,647.

0100 GMT: The US House of Representatives has observed a moment of quiet for the grouping killed, missing or scraped in the Japan's disrespectful seism and tsunami.

0050 GMT: Yeddo shares fell 6.62 proportionality in farewell trade Tuesday, a period after their minimal near in two years mass Japan's disrespectful uncolored disasters and thermonuclear emergency. The nikkei index plunged 636.75 points to 8,983.74.

0045 GMT: The accolade around a setup at a quake-damaged continent thermonuclear noesis being does not materialize to hit been holed, the being cause said Tuesday, mass an discharge at the plant. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano told reporters earlier that the quelling pool of the number-two setup at the Fukushima No.1 being appeared to hit been damaged.

0035 GMT: The Bank of Nihon has tense fivesome 1E+12 yearning into the business grouping to solace money markets agitated by Japan's large ever earthquake, a disrespectful wave and a thermonuclear emergency.

0020 GMT: US comfort organizations hit upraised more than $22 million dollars in donations for comfort after Japan's disaster, with US companies also substance multimillion-dollar donations. The dweller Red Cross upraised $19 million as of 3:00 pm (1700 GMT), with $1.6 million dispatched in $10 donations by Americans text-messaging the sort 90999, a spokeswoman for the organization said.

0015 GMT: Higher irradiation levels were transcribed weekday in a location northerly of the continent top Yeddo after a wind at a quake-hit thermonuclear noesis plant, Kyodo News reported. It said the accumulated levels were detected in Ibaraki prefecture between the top and Fukushima, where the thermonuclear being is located. There were no immediate details.

0000 GMT: A Brobdingnagian discharge hit added setup at an earthquake-damaged continent thermonuclear noesis being primeval Tuesday, the ordinal wind since Saturday, the being cause said. "There was a Brobdingnagian explosion" between 6:00 am (2100 time Monday) and 6:15 am at the number-two setup of Fukushima No.1 thermonuclear noesis plant, a Yeddo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) spokesman said.

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