Evacuation of residents near nuclear plant

Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said that the evacuation of residents near the country's stricken nuclear plant will be "long-term," as Japan's nuclear crisis stretched into a third week, with no end in sight.

1 April 2011, 12:00am

Japan is struggling to regain control of a damaged nuclear plant north of Tokyo, which is leaking very high levels of radiation, after an earthquake and tsunami hit on 11 March. More than 27,973 people are dead or missing and hundreds of thousands have been left homeless as a result of the tsunami.