UK likely continue the Iceland in the billions

Icesave collapsed was the arm in Landsbanki line - the British Government said it has "the obligation to recover the money."New: In the Netherlands, said he consults with the United Kingdom on the repeal of the stepsIceland voters over a deal to repay depositors who lost money when savers in their country a collapsedBritain of the Bank and the Netherlands to the rescue that moneyThey lost now want their refund Iceland

London (CNN) - an increasingly bitter conflict between the United Kingdom and the Iceland more billions of dollars lost when banks collapsed is likely to find themselves in court, a Minister of the high British Government said Sunday.

The British Government has "the obligation to obtain money and we will continue to pursue what until we do," said Danny Alexander, Chief Secretary to the Treasury.

He was speaking Sunday after the Iceland voted to repeal a law aimed at resolving the dispute.

Six of 10 voters in the referendum on Saturday opposed the Act, the Government said in a statement Sunday, saying participation was high.

Alexander called Icelandic vote on Saturday "disappointing", adding, "we have a very difficult financial situation as a country...". This money would help. ?

"There is an ongoing legal process and we will continue thanks to these processes," he said on the BBC show "Andrew marr.

The results of the battle of the Icelandic of an internet bank collapse in October 2008.

Britain and the Netherlands come with more than 5 billion to bail out of savers in their own country, which has lost money in Icesave failure - a branch of Landsbanki online retail bank.

They are now trying to claim money from the Iceland.

Certain payments will go ahead later this year, Iceland of the Government said Sunday, explaining that they were not affected by the vote.

"These payments are expected to cover about a third of priority claims (applicant). In addition, the latest figures on its assets indicate that the succession (Landsbanki) will be able to pay more than 90% of applications for deposits, "the Government said in a news release.

Under a directive of the European Union, the Iceland must compensation to the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. The Icelandic Government said that it will honor its international obligations.

Netherlands Finance Minister Jan Kees de Jager is "very disappointed with the decision of the Icelandic electorate does not agree with the agreement concluded between the Iceland, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands,"the Ministry of finance Netherlands said Sunday."

"The time of the negotiations's over", de Jager said in the statement. "The Iceland remains obliged to repay." The question now is for the courts to decide. ?

The Ministry of finance Netherlands said that he consults on new steps United Kingdom.

The Iceland International Monetary Fund has lent 2.1 billion in November 2009 and said pay back the money for the British Governments and Dutch was a requirement of the loan.

The Iceland began to move to the application for accession to the European Union, which could block the Britain and the Netherlands.Bharati Naik of CNN have contributed to this report.

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Japan began the grim with flooded cities, likely thousands missing rescue mission

TOKYO - the teams searched rescue the matchstick rubble Saturday for thousands of missing people in flooded areas in the northeast of the Japan, starting one of the most complex relief in history.

A day after the earthquake of magnitude 8.9 and the massive tsunami, entire towns remained unattainable, and some were feared to be wiped off the map. Most estimates put the number of deaths to 1,700, but services new city police in the Prefecture of Miyagi - one of the most severely affected areas - saying that they expect the number exceeds 10 000 in this region alone.

About 200,000 people live in temporary shelters. A band of the main island of Honshu of Japan has almost no electricity, with meagre means of communicating. Many huts have no heat. Survivors in a primary school in the devastated city coastal Minamisanriku used chalk to write their message on a dirt playground: "SOS."

An explosion in a nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture and concerns possible radiation leak prompted evacuations within a radius of 12.5 km. Up to 160 people near Fukushima nuclear plants were exposed to radiation.

In other areas north of Tokyo, the nearest to the epicentre of the earthquake Friday, witnesses said the massive wave had swallowed and chewed up neighborhoods together. Attempts to reach those short on supplies, trapped or stranded were complicated by damage to roads and tracks.

About 9,500 people in Minamisanriku - city of 17,000 in Miyagi Prefecture - still unaccounted for, reported Kyodo News Agency, quoting local government officials. Telephone lines are dead in the schools. Images taken by helicopters allowed for a comparison of before - after: where there was once a fishing and tourist village, there is now a lake with only a few buildings camouflet from the murky black.

"Even medical relief will be a battle for a long time," said Toshikazu Yamamoto, an official of the Japanese Red Cross for disaster relief. "This earthquake is much larger than the Kobe earthquake [in 1995]." Kobe took 10, 15 years to recover, and he in fact has not recovered completely even now. This earthquake recovery will take a time long, long. ?

Tent plot damage only began the Japan dispatched 50,000 soldiers of the disaster area. The coastal town of Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, was completely submerged by water, according to the local authorities. A television journalist who arrived in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, said that the city had disappeared.

A train derailed in the Prefecture of Miyagi, nearest to the epicentre of the earthquake, has been waylaid on the side of a House. There was no report on the comings and goings of passengers.

With pretzeled roads and fuel a strong application intact roads along North, the Government will depend on ships and aircraft for the rescue work. Japan sends 195 aircraft and 25 ships to the disaster zone, according to Kyodo. U.S. ships will join them for search and rescue missions.

Japanese electricity companies warned of serious failures in the coming days, with the sources of energy supply diminished.

On Saturday, the coast northeast of the Japan, viewed from above, had the appearance of a dark scar. The more virulent wave sent a wall of water more of 20 feet high, to shore and she spread some six miles inland. 6 Hours of the morning, local time, the Prime Minister Naoto Kan surveyed the area by helicopter. On the ground said to cries of survivors trapped, houses has turned to the chips and overtaxed hospitals and shelters.

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