Japan

As Japan’s nuclear body raises the level of the nuclear crisis from 4 to 5 on a scale of 7, the International Atomic Energy Agency announces it will meet on Monday.

Latest updates, pictures and video from Japan as earthquake and tsunami recovery efforts are hampered by an escalating nuclear crisis.

As Japan struggles to keep the nuclear crisis from spiralling out of control, Krishnan Guru-Murthy looks at the way facts has been controlled and asks whether officials have concealed information.

Fears of a meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant are causing trauma and travel chaos across tsunami-stricken Japan as foreign governments tell their nationals to evacuate.

As fear spreads in Japan, radiation expert Professor Gerry Thomas tells Channel 4 News: “We are panicking that poor, savaged population about radiation that is not going to harm them.”

Watch video of the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant, filmed by military helicopters dumping water on it, as a nuclear expert tells Channel 4 News elements of the response are “shambolic”.

Eyewitness footage of the tsunami striking Northern Japan and the subsequent scramble to rescue men, women and children from the flooded streets.

Footage filmed inside a moving car as the tsunami hits the road and covers the vehicle. The driver, who survived, tells local media: “I could do nothing but keep driving, it was terrifying.”

What impact will Japan’s nuclear disaster have on future power station plans? Environmental psychologist Professor Nick Pidgeon, reports on how disasters like these alter our perception of risk.

Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson tells of the devastation encountered by the Channel 4 News team in the city of Kamaishi in northeast Japan.

UK Foreign Office suggest citizens in Japan leave the country as US officials sound stronger warnings on the threat from the Fukushima nuclear plant.

Radiation fears in Japan have sparked panic buying of potassium iodide tablets, but a radiation expert has told Channel 4 News it is “entirely unnecessary”.

Channel 4 News Alex Thomson reports from Kamaishi where blizzards and ice now blanket a village whose massive tsunami protection walls failed to save its people last Friday.

Crisis at Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan as officials warn radiation levels close to the plant are now high enough to impact human health. Follow our live blog to get the latest.

Science Correspondent Tom Clarke considers the far greater danger to human health if it transpires that nuclear fuel in storage pools at the stricken Japanese plant has undergone fission.