Manitoba flood threat grows

It has a peaceful Easter weekend for many people living along rivers in Manitoba, and hundreds evacuated their homes because of flood waters.

Throughout the province, more than 1,600 people left their homes due to flooding or the threat of flooding. Many evacuees are residents of First Nations.

The First Nation in Roseau River, 100 kilometres south of Winnipeg, the whole of the community of about 850 people began to leave the reserve. Approximately 170 had left Saturday afternoon, while the rest were to leave Sunday and Monday.

Coordinator of flood Howard Nelson said the band Council has determined the reserve can be cut at any time. It is concerned in that its permanent dike could violate the community of the floods in as little as 15 minutes.

"According to the levels of the water we were do, us will probably lose our remaining access on the side is, so we called a complete evacuation," he said.

The Red River and Assiniboine mouse took their banks in some places.

The intensification of the fight against flooding along the Souris River downstream of Melita, who is currently in crest.

Flood provincial officials say the city mouse, Souris River and intersecting Plum Creek are likely to peak at the same time, which could be tomorrow. That would lead to water levels similar to the record breaking flooding of 1976.

On Saturday, three houses along Plum Creek have been sandbagged, and more tube dikes and Hesco barriers have been implemented.

Near the PAS, ice jams on the Carrot River, threatening homes. about 30 were sandbagged the dam of Bracken.

South of Winnipeg, officials have said, there are a handful of precautionary evacuations in the rural municipality of Morris. Some residents of Morris stay in hotels or with relatives this weekend because the 75 Highway, the main road in the city, is completely faded, leaving some inaccessible houses.

Houses in the town are protected by an Earth Bank, but the surrounding fields are now massive pools of water.

The dam is also causing headaches for truckers in this region of southern Manitoba who are striving to achieve the United States. They have to take 100 km of twists to reach the border.

The flooding also means that the churches across the Prairies will likely have less faithful Easter Sunday.

The Reverend Mary Gavin of the Anglican Church of St. John Fort said that water rising in the Valley of the river called means parishioners Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan, may not provide services on Sunday.

Ron Cox, Mayor of the nearby resort village of B-Say-Tah on the shores of Lake echo, said he missed the Friday service, because it was simply too worn uplift of sand bags every day and it provides may thus Miss Sunday services.

On the Echo Lake water levels have increased during the week, and Saskatchewan Watershed Authority, said levels on the river called are still dating.

Regina, workers of the city continued to deal with the flood of Wascana Creek where a body was drawn from a strong current Friday afternoon. Police have released few details coincide with the discovery, only say that the body was male and that the coroner was investigating.

The River Basin Authority said that it considers that the Creek could be almost peaked Saturday or Sunday.

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Advisor of said Japan decline of the nuclear threat: report - AFP

Advisor of said Japan decline of the nuclear threat: report (AFP) - 4 hours ago

TOKYO - The Japanese Advisor special of the Prime Minister on nuclear crisis says that the immediate risk of a leak of major radiation of the power plant of Fukushima decreased, the Wall Street Journal reported.

The Government could not say the situation had been completely stabilized at the factory, but after studying the possibility of a serious deterioration Tokyo was comfortable with the current of the evacuation policy, Goshi Hosono said the paper in an interview on Saturday.

"There is no way Tokyo or Kyoto will be in danger," said Hosono, Special Adviser to the Prime Minister Naoto Kan on the management of the nuclear crisis.

The atomic plant, where the reactor cooling systems have been eliminated, was struck by a series of explosions and radiation leak in the air, ground and sea in the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl world 25 years ago.

The Government imposed a 20 kilometre (12 mile) exclusion zone around the plant, giving legal weight to an exclusion zone for fear of the effect of exposure to radiation on residents long term last week.

More than 85,000 people have left for shelter areas around the plant, including a wider zone of 30 km, where people were said to remain in the Interior and later urged to leave.

Hosono said of the levels of radiation in damaged reactors must be lowered before work would be carried out, and they had to find ways to treat the water contaminated by radiation of efforts to cool the reactors and spent fuel rod pool.

Workers poured thousands of tons of radioactive water at low altitude, in the Pacific Ocean, the concern of contamination of the marine environment concerned neighbouring countries.

"Our objective is very clear: preventing the spread more radiation in the atmosphere and the ocean,"Hosono told the paper."."

"To achieve this, we need to restore stable cooling functions." It is technically extremely difficult. ?

Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Company, said that he does not expect a "cold shutdown" of all the reactors for another period of six to nine months.

Hosono said officials had begun to examine the causes and treatment of the nuclear accident.

"When we look at the accident, it will naturally become clear where the problems were, including issues with the Japan nuclear regulatory policy," he told the paper.

Hosono, Member of the Democratic Party of the Japan to power said that it was not the right time to decide whether the country should turn to non-nuclear energy sources or continue to continue to use atomic power.

I just don ' t think we can make a judgment dispassionate in the current atmosphere, "the cited book telling him."

"For the moment, we must maintain options and let the people decide in time".

DPJ Secretary General Katsuya Okada Friday, said the Government would review its policy of energy in the light of the disaster, but could be established with nuclear energy.

Japan poor in resources, very dependent on oil from the Middle East, brings about a third of its energy needs, nuclear power, but its high-tech companies are also world leaders in numerous environmental and energy technologies.

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Bric leaders say increasing commodity prices poses threat to global growth - Bloomberg

BRIC leaders called for "more attention to the risk of massive cross-border capital flows" and said that the Monetary Fund International should continue to look to overhaul the role of special drawing rights as an international reserve currency system. Photographer: Nelson Ching/Bloomberg.

The leaders of the Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, said excessively volatile commodity prices pose a threat to the global economy and called for greater regulation of derivatives markets.

Volatility "poses new risks for ongoing recovery of the global economy," the leaders said, according to a news release from their Summit at Chinese station of Sanya. The BRIC countries, such as the five is known, also called for greater vigilance on the impact of the movement of capital from developed economies in emerging markets and agree on a plan to make more loans in local currency.

Rising food and of fuel, prices are inflexible importers like China and the India to maintain low prices for their 2.6 billion people. Export of the country such as the Brazil, the Russia and the South Africa benefit from trade, but are concerned will that rely too heavily on resources stifle diversification of their economies, leaving vulnerable should stop the application.

"Budgetary prospects for emerging economies are more favourable, but this partly reflects the rear high asset and the prices of raw materials, low interest rates and strong capital inflows," International Monetary Fund said in a report this month. A "the reversal could leave exposed posts."

China is the largest importer in the world of soybeans and consumption of energy, according to oil imported to stimulate economic growth. In India, where hundreds of millions of people live in poverty, also said concerned about rising food prices.

"Regulation of the market for derivative products should therefore be strengthened to prevent activities capable of destabilizing the markets," said the document.

Corn, coffee and cotton prices were all more than doubled on the global markets last year, while crude oil prices are up 42% in London. Chicago Wheat futures are likely to increase by $8.60 a bushel before 31 December, 31% up from brokerage low, based in Paris this year, said OTCex group earlier this month. Corn can reach a record $ 10 per bushel, Alex Bos, an analyst of Macquarie Group Ltd. said on 6 April.

This year China expects to import of 57 million tonnes of soybeans, or almost 60 percent of world trade of animal feed and ingredient in tofu.

The release of BRICS called for greater cooperation on food safety to the lack of reliable information and timely time on the supply and demand. The international community was needed to work together to increase production, increase technological support and financing for the developing countries in "create a more equitable and just world."

In a separate agreement, the heads of the five development banks agreed on working a plan to increase the use of local when currencies make loans to the other.

"We talked about how to move more quickly to the use of national currencies," said Medvedev. "I just had a meeting with the President of the Brazil, and we have agreed to intensify work on a possible switch." We could think of such a system with the BRICs. ?

The combined gross domestic product of the five so-called BRICS nations Eclipse the economy of the United States at the end of 2014, International Monetary Fund projected published this week. The euro area will be exceeded this year, data showed. By 2016, the BRICs will have a combined GDP of $ 21 billion from a projection of 18.8 billion for the United States, according to the IMF.

Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov, said that more than US $100 barrel of oil prices are discouraging Russia diversify its economy. Ivanov, said the current price was unsustainable and that the budget of the Russia will fall into a deficit when it falls.

"When the rain of gold is poured over your head, you did are not motivated to diversify," Ivanov said in an interview on April 7 in Miami. "I would say I hate high oil and gasoline prices, but I am not happy with them.".

Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, said that it expects crude to decline later this year, as increases in prices curb demand.

Brent on average US $94 per barrel in the fourth quarter, analysts at the Bank, led by Blanch in Francisco based in New York, said in a report earlier this week. It is approximately 23% less than the current level of prices.

Gross Brent advanced to more than $127 a barrel on the ice London futures exchange this week, the highest level since August 2008 and approximately $20 price record of the year for 147.50 Brent $ per barrel.

Chinese President Hu Jintao and other leaders of bric also called for "more attention to the risks of cross-border capital flows" and said that the Monetary Fund massive International should continue to examine the role of special drawing rights as a system of reviewing international reserve currency.

"The structure of management of international financial institutions should reflect changes in the global economy, increasing the voice and representation of emerging economies and developing countries," said the press release.

At the Summit of Sanya, HU is joined by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, the Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, South African President Jacob Zuma and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

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