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Creating confusion and causing deep concern about tekko knows to what extent the scale of the leaky radiation is coming from fukushima. it s trying to get clarification over the weekend but there s no guarantee, considering the fact that they have to get that right. this has been blasted by the nuclear safety watchdog, insisting if tekko can t get the readings itself they re going to send others in to get them, the iaea standing by to help them. there is concern for the worker safety, they haven t been given reading meters to see how much radiation they re being exposed to and there s greater concern for those workers as well. gregg dominic di-natale, thank you very much. martha: we ve been telling you stories of political unrest spreading across the middle east and every day, there is a new development in this. we ve also got new protests to show new jordan, a very close ally of the united states. what will we do, how will we react to that situation? ....
In this region. contamination in the beef industry as well. this comes as u.s. troops help in the grim search for victims, joint u.s.-japanese teams combing the devastation from the ground and air. so far, more than 10,000 people are confirmed dead, thousands more are still missing, and some say may never be found. dominic di-natale is live in osaka, japan. reporter: a massive amount of back pedaling from the japanese authorities, saying the food scare for the beef, 40 miles away from the fukushima plant was erroneously reported. they re saying in subsequent tests on that meat they found no levels of radioactive activity at radioactivity at all in the cows, in what they believe contained radiation at the time. they said second tests proved negative. there could be a problem with the examination in the first place. on top of that, we re hearing from tekko, plant operator, saying it gave ....
Plant. we are getting brand new images of the fukushima reactors and the situation taking a turn now for the worse with reports that ground quarter contamination is now 10,000 times higher than government standards. dominic di-natale, streaming live from osaka, japan. reporter: gregg, tekko, trying to get a grip on this crisis, is back pedaling on the level of 10,000 that caused alarm, particularly those up north likely to be affected by the radiation coming from the plant, but also the international agency as well, the iaea, it says its readings are false, it actually got them incorrect but doesn t know what the actual levels are in the groundwater and has to do further tests. this is the second time that tekko has falsely informed the public on levels of radiation and it s now ....
But the japanese authorities are insisting the levels they re finding are not a risk to human health. we re also hearing that tekko has suspended its attempts to contain the amount of radiation coming off of plant. it was going to spray the area with resin, but due to bad weather it hasn t been able to do that. it s going to try doing that again tomorrow, jenna. also, nicolas sarkozy, the french president, is in the country at the moment lending support from the g20 countries, with him, the ceo from akiva, the state-owned nuclear operating front, and lavere was saying it s not about the help they can give but what the nuclear facilities can learn about japan. listen to this: the priority is to stabilize the situation, from there, we will get experience that will help existing nuclear plants and those that have yet to be designed. in many countries, there ....