hello. i'm nik gowing with bbc world news. our top stories. violent protests in rio de janeiro sparked by alleged police brutality. just two months before the football world cup. president obama's asian tour about to start. the american leader backs japan in its territorial dispute with china. the deal to come. tensions in ukraine looks close to collapse as the acting president calls for action against separatists. and the high cost of treating cancer. the ground breaking drug that proves too pricey for britain's health service.

hello, everyone. there have been new violent protests with a man shot dead in rio de janeiro less than two months before brazil hosts the football world cup. sparked by the death of a 26-year-old dancer famous for television apeernlss. families say police beat him after mistaking him for a drug dealer. armed police were deployed when the unrest spread into the tourist copa cabana district. >> reporter: two of rio's main streets running parallel to copacabana beach closed to traffic as police try to contain the violence. at one point live tracer machine gunfire could be seen coming

from within the pavella. several cars were blazed in a community otherwise in the dark because of a huge power outage. the trouble started after the death of a 26-year-old local man named douglas rafael da silva. a professional dancer. according to his family his body was covered in wounds. they accuse local police of beating him to death after mistaking him for a member of the local drug family. huge crowds demanding an explanation for the death gathered at the sprans of tentr pavella. several armed military police units were at the scene, amid reports the police station inside the pavella was also under attack. it's been part of the recent pacification program. an attempt by the city authorities to drive the heavily armed drug stands away from the communities and to restore some

peace and police authority. two major events around the corner, including the world cup where thousands of international visitors are due in rio. police have admitted to the bbc they've lost the initiative in many pavellas. brazil's police, meanwhile, are accused of being far too ready to resort to violence as they try to contain the problem. bbc news, rio de janeiro. u.s. president barack obama has just touched down in japan for the start of a week long tour of asia. which the white house says is part of the so-called eastward rebalancing of u.s. foreign policy. the americans are increasingly focused on security. i should tell you that is the president's plane, air force one, which has just arrived in tokyo. we haven't seen the president yet. this is in a region where china is adopting more assertive

policies. our chief business correspondent l lindsay yu at the agriculture heartland in japan. >> reporter: springtime. the promise of new beginning. but before you can reap, you have to sow. 80-year-old shagau endo is preparing his rice fields as he has for over half a century. farmers like him have been protected by the government. there's a 778% tax on imported rice. he doesn't want to see that end. >> translator: we can't compete with countries like australia or canada who farm on a large scale. people will tend to go for what is cheaper. i think japanese agriculture

will be fatally wounded. >> reporter: he and his family have been shielded for decades. it's a sore point for the americans and the proposed free trade agreement. the transpacific partnership, or tpp, isn't just about trade. it's the key to obama's visit, as he wants to reorient the u.s. toward fast growing asia. but that doesn't make any difference to these protesters. these are the most vocal critics of the tpp or transpacific partnership. japan and the u.s. are major trading nations. who already trade a lot with each other. so, of course, there's some benefit in having more free trade. what is so special about this one? is it more about who's not at the table? >> abe threw his hat in the ring

because he wants to prove to the united states he's a reliable alliance partner. so i think that you can't look at tpp entirely through economic and trade lens. you have to also look at it through the angle of strategic advantages and japan's worries about china's regional ambitions. >> reporter: at a local festival, they celebrate the arrival of the new season. president obama wants to celebrate a new spring. a new era. even a second opening of japan. prime minister abe is hoping for trade to deliver growth. with so much at stake, both abe and obama will want to show progress. but it will be baby steps. >> there is president obama just come down the steps. being greeted by the u.s. ambassador to tokyo, caroline

kennedy. rue pert winfield hayes joins me from tokyo. rupert, what are the prospects? >> it's an important symbolic trip. this is for a start the first state visit to japan by a u.s. president. the last was bill clinton back in 1996. there's a good deal of excitement here in japan. that they are getting a full state visit with full state ceremony. he will be greeted by the emperor. there will be a state banquet. all of that. there are also very, very important issues. there are the important trade issues linda was talking about. also the real elephant in the room here which is china. japan is very worried about the growing strength of china, its assertiveness in the region, its assertive claims to islands controlled by japan. and it wants to see president obama giving a strong statement here in tokyo of support for japan that america will stand behind japan in this dispute. >> what about this critical issue of defense? japan has self-defense forces,

but clearly is getting more assertive. what about the developing relationship with the u.s. on that critical issue? >> reporter: very difficult one for president obama to navigate. because on the one hand, the u.s. would like to see japan modernizing its military, and perhaps changing its constitutional setup to allow japan to use its military to defend itself more forcefully. to modernize, to come into the 21st century if you like. but, on the other hand, prime minister abe is seen as being something of a problem. his views on history, his views on the second world war, on issues like korean and chinese, have caused huge problems for japan in the region, soured relations with china, soured relations with south korea. for president obama, he would like to see mr. abe basically rolling back on his rhetoric and stopping talking in these sort of terms.

because it is doing such damage to relations in this region. >> what about that critical issue of conflict prevention, tension prevention? does the u.s. have a role there given, as abe has said on occasions, i don't even know if anyone will pick up the phone if i call them if there's a problem in beijing. >> reporter: america has a very, very important role here. as you say, japan and china really not talking to each other. america is still the pre-eminent military power in this region. it has 50,000 troops based here in japan. it has a nuclear aircraft carrier based here in japan. what america has to do is show enough support for japan to prevent china doing anything silly. but not getting into a situation where it is stoking the tensions further. the last thing america wants to do is to make china feel like it is being encircled and contained by america and this ring of allies. these alliances that america has

with japan, with south korea, and now with the philippines and countries in southeast asia as well. >> all right. rupert. the bbc's rupert wingfield-hayes. it's getting on late in the evening in japan. there the presidential multiple ton vehicle which is always flown in advance before the president arrives. the president also going to korea and malaysia. and also the philippines. but he is not going to beijing during this trip to the far east. let's move on with ukraine and the international deal to come. tensions there backed by russia and the west seems in danger of collapse. ukraine's acting president ordered the relaunch of military operations against pro-russian mill tanlts. after two men, one a local politician, were found dead in the east of the country. in a separate development the u.s. is sending 600 military personnel to poland and three

baltic states for what are officially labeled nato exercises. >> reporter: pro-russian militants in charge of check points in eastern ukraine. this is where the unsuccessful truce of the easter is coming to an end. ukraine's government forces will soon launch an offensive against them. the death of two men, including one local politician in the black jacket shown here, prompted the decision. it wasn't long ago when the world thought there was an agreement to de-escalate the tension. but when foreign ministers from the u.s. and russia spoke on the phone this time, the mood was tense. with mr. kerry vowing more sanctions on russia. other countries in the region, like poland, are also concerned. in a show of support, 600 u.s.

troops will start arriving there on wednesday. >> if there's a message to moscow, it is -- it is the same exact message that we take our obligations very, very seriously on the continent of europe. >> reporter: the u.s. navy committed to the regional security. but with escalating tensions in eastern ukraine, the deployment may not prove to be greatly reassuring. bbc news. other news at this hour. the head of russia's biggest social media website has fled the country after being forced out of his job by russian security services. pavel durov, the russian version of facebook, says allies of president putin have taken over the network after he refused to share users' personal data. pope john paul ii will become a saint on sunday. turned a blind eye toward one of the catholic church's most

damaging sexual abuse scandals. the vatican says there's nothing linking john paul personally with the catholic priest. the pakistani defense ministry has demanded the country's largest news channel, go television, be shut down. the move comes after the channel broke out allegations that the country's main spy agency was behind the shooting of a prompt geo television anchor. the isi says the charges, baseless. he's in hospital after being shot while driving into the city of karachi. four more crew members from the ferry that capsized in south korea a week ago have been arrested. 11 people are now in custody. the number of bodies recovered has reached 150 with another 152 still missing. most of them school children. the bbc's jonathan hague is on the island of jindo. >> reporter: every day the list gets longer. confirmed victims of last week's

ferry disaster. some named, some identified only by the clothes they were wearing or jewelry. but with so many still missing, the agonizing wait just goes on. the arrivals and departures of police boats bringing back the bodies has become something of a grim routine here. some families are now able to grieve. many others can't. a week on, the pain of this disaster still seems unending. before long they'll probably abandon the use of divers and deploy cranes to lift the hull to the sea's surface. they can't do until all the families accept the deaths of their sons and daughters. and how can they do that if they've yet to receive their bodies? in the town of ansan where most of the victims went to school, a memorial service today brought

out all the grief and anguish of a terrible week. an entire school year gone. so many young lives lost. in an accident that it seems could have been avoided. the government says it is doing all it can to complete the recovery of victims. offshore, a flotilla of boats now surrounds the spot where the ferry went down. divers, around 700 in total, are going down in pairs. following safety lines that can guide them through the cabins and corridors of the sunken hull. when their job is finally done, it will be the turn of n investigators to find out what went so terribly wrong here. bbc news, jindo, south korea. >> within the last few moments it's been reported from western australia sourced to the giant

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you're with bbc world news with me, nik gowing. brazilian police clash with crowds of shantytown residents in rio de janeiro less that two months before the football world cup. president obama has just begun a tour of asia. he's arrived in tokyo. he says a u.s. mutual defense treaty with japan does include islands of the center of a dispute with china. right now, let's now move to kuala lumpur. because we're seeing acting transportation minister with a brief. perhaps connected to what may have been discovered in australia.

>> the deputy minister of transport to coordinate the permission of international investigator. on that note -- and the council member of the international aviation organization. icao. will observe and comply with the standards and recommended practices of icao. mainly to look into the safety of civil international aviation. the main purpose of the international investigation team is to evaluate, investigate and determine the actual cause of the accident so similar accidents will be avoided in the future. i would also like to note that the investigation will not be criminal aspects under the purview of the royal commission. this investigation will be carried out with the civil aviation act of 1966.

it's required each party investigate the accident independently with the full power of the countries. the investigation will be -- which was established in november 2011. the investigation here will include three groups. operational rules. we are also discussing -- from other asean countries. we are in the process of identifying the members.

and their accredited representatives. and will be recruiting the members for the team according to the international -- we will announce the name of the members next week. indeed, it is imperative for the government to have an independent team of investigator which is is not only competent and transparent, but also highly credible. as we've said since the beginning, we have nothing to hide. >> still trying to learn from what happened with the malaysian airliner. which still hasn't been discovered. there may be some debris in western usaustralia. there you've got the acting transportation minister, defense minister of malaysia confirming there's going to be a wider investigation into a number of issues raised by the disappearance of mh370. there's a growing debate about the high price of modern medicine. especially those for treating cancer. the pharmaceutical giant roach here in the uk is being urged to cut the cost of a ground breaking breast cancer drug

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rock legend led zeppelin released dozens of previously unheard recordings from 30 years ago. hello, everyone. u.s. president barack obama has just arrived in japan at the start of a tricky week long asian tour that will also take him to seoul, kuala lumpur and mani manila. the one country he won't be going to is china. china's growing economic and military clout will overshadow the trip everywhere he goes. nowhere more so than in japan. from tokyo, the bbc's rupert wingfield-hayes. >> reporter: it's sunday night in tokyo. and the california low riders are out in force. president obama is arriving in a country some still describe as a

sort of american colony. nothing symbolizes the american power in japan more than the seventh fleet. the bonham richard is about to begin a mock invasion. there are nine of these. and another ten on a carrier. no other navy in the world has anything like this. american navy power -- for now. 200 miles over there is china. and right now china is making japan very nervous. this chinese boat is deep inside japanese waters and refusing to stop. china is aggressively asserting its claim to japanese controlled islands in the east china sea. japan wants to know what president obama will do if there is a complication. >> there is a real possibility

that the americans might be entangled into an actual combat. simply because of this confrontation between china and japan about the senkaku islands. the americans backed off. it's not about the size of the military capability, which is immense, of course. it's the will of the americans. >> reporter: though with 27,000 u.s. marines based in japan, u.s. commanders say they have the will and the means. >> i landed on this beach 30 years ago as a young lieutenant. this shows our staying power. the strength of these alliances. >> reporter: and president obama may have a few questions of his own for prime minister abe. why, for example, did he go out of his way to provoke china with this visit to the yesakuni shrine? home to the spirits of japan's

most notorious war criminals. mr. abe's reluctance to accept what japan did during world war ii is not only sabotaging relations with china and korea, but with his most important ally, too. rupert wing-field hayes, bbc news, tokyo. the official u.s. briefing from the white house says very clearly this visit is about deepening economic ties. let's go to our chief business correspondent, linda yu there on the streets of tokyo. linda, what are the chances of deepening economic ties for japan, which is still struggling to expand? >> reporter: nick, that is the key question. i know it's hard to tell. because looking behind me there's a lot of activity going on in japan. but japan is on the cusp of coming out of a two decade long stagnation. and what they're hoping is that this trade deal to create the world's biggest free trade area that president obama is negotiating with the prime

minister, shinzo abe, will allow trade to boost growth. the estimates are sigh are impressive. for instance, it says the per capita average income growth in japan to over 2% per year. that would end the stagnation. of course, negotiating a trade deal is by no means an easy task. >> what about mr. abe's so-called free arrows? the way forward? what is the state of those arrows? are they hitting the targets? >> reporter: the first one probably has. and that's the monetary support for the economy. inflation has returned to japan. the second one is using government spending. now, that one has been a little bit, i guess, wobbly is the right way to put it. because they have increased government spending, but raising the consumption tax doesn't really help people's incomes. but the main arrow, the third one, the structural reform, that very much, in the words of shinzo abe, hinges on this key.

he wrote an op-ed piece called the second opening of japan. the first was under commodor perry, the american military leader who forcibly opened japan. that led to a period of growth. suggesting that obama's visit and this free trade deal could do the same for the japanese economy. but he has his own farmers to contend with first. the agricultural sector here in japan would not welcome such an opening. they still have tariffs of 778% on imported rice. >> linda, thank you very much, indeed. the president now about to have dinner, i think, with shinzo abe. bbc's chief business correspondent in tokyo. there have been violent protests in rio de janeiro less than two months before brazil hosts the football world cup. it was sparked by the death of a dancer. his family accused police of beating him up after mistaking him for a drugs dealer.

one person was shot dead in the protest. main roads in the tourist area of copacabana were closed. the bbc was in rio as the unrest happened. >> reporter: two of rio's main streets running parallel to copacabana beach closed to traffic as police try to contain the violence. at one point, live tracer machine gunfire could be seen coming from within the favela. and several cars were ablaze in the community that was otherwise in the dark because of a huge power outage. the trouble started after the death of a 26-year-old local man named douglas rafael da silva. a professional dancer. according to his family, his body was covered in wounds. and they accuse local police of beating him to death after mistaking him for a member of the local drug stand. huge crowds demanding an explanation for the death gathered near the entrance to the favela, which is just a

stone's throw from rio's famous beaches and tourist hot spots. several heavily armed military police units were also at the scene amid reports that the main police station inside the favela was also under attack. pavauzinho is just one of the favelas -- and to restore some police and police authority. with major events around the corner, including the world cup, where thousands of international visitors are due in rio, the police have admitted to the bbc that they've lost the initiative in many favelas. brazil's police, meanwhile, are accused of being far too ready to resort to violence as they try to contain the problem. bbc news, rio de janeiro. the international deal to calm tensions in ukraine backed by russia and the west seems in

danger of collapse. ukraine's acting president ordered the relaunch of military operations against pro-russian militants. that's after two men, one a local politician, were found dead in the east of the country. in a separate development, the u.s. is sending 600 military personnel to poland and three baltic states for what are officially labeled nato exercises. the bbc ease natalie antelava is in eastern ukraine. i asked her about the mood there after the announcement the military campaign against protesters was going to resume. >> reporter: the mood would be best described as sort of anxious, nervous. everybody awaiting what this second part of the anti-terrorist operation by the ukrainian forces will entail. the first part before easter wasn't terribly successful. we saw ukrainian tanks roll in. and very quickly some of them

surrender their armed vehicles. and in some cases weapons to pro-russian demonstrators. so it was a very humiliating experience for the ukrainian army. i'm sure the government in kiev will be trying to make sure it doesn't happen again. but what will this anti-terrorist operation look like is unclear. because if the ukrainian army, and they must know that, opens fire on any of the protesters or if they start getting involved in actual fighting, that will be an invitation for russian troops who are still stationed above the border to come into eastern ukraine. president putin has made clear that he will be ready to do that. and that will mean a war that ukraine just won't be able to win. >> many in the region allied to russia are unhappy with developments in kiev, the ukraine capital. they're looking to moscow for support.

natalia found out when she met a family of farmers in a village of eastern ukraine. >> reporter: i've just been invited to victoria's house for some tea. and this is the family of farmers. victoria and ganazi are farmers here. >> reporter: i asked again, do you want to be part of russia or do you want to be part of ukraine. again, they said, it's the wrong question. we just want order.

>> reporter: his mother and brother have just arrived. so victor's mom, she has a russian past. but she lives on this side. but has a russian past. gets her pension there. her pension is four times bigger than the one she would have in ukraine. but she says they're going to call me separatist. that's the last thing i need. i'm almost 70. he wants to show me some videos he says are making him and people here really, really angry. this is, he says, what we are seeing on russian tv. this family is really interesting. because unlike most people that we talk to at demonstrations, pro-russian demonstrations in slovyansk, they watch ukrainian television as well as russian tv. they say they're making a very

conscious choice to be with russia. here is why. >> reporter: they're shouting, hang the russians. hang the russians. you're telling me we're the separatists, we're the bad guys? how do you think that makes us feel? >> one family in eastern ukraine. other news at this hour. the head of russia's biggest social media website vk has fled the country after being forced out of his job by russian security services.

pavel durov whose site is regarded as the russian version of facebook says allies of president putin have taken over the network. that's after he refused to share users' personal data with law agencies. the vatican has dismissed allegations pope john paul ii who will become a saint on sunday turned a blind eye towards one of the catholic church's most damaging sexual abuse scandals. the vatican says there's no evidence linking john paul personally to the case of a mexican priest who founded a catholic religious order. pakistan's defense ministry has demanded that the country's largest news channel, geo television, be shut down. the move comes after the channel broke out allegations the country's main spy agency, the isi, was behind the shooting of a prominent geo television anchor. the isi says the charge is baseless. he's in hospital after being shot while he was driving into the city of karachi. four more crew members from the ferry that capsized in south

korea a week ago have been arrested. 11 people are now in custody. the number of bodies recovered has reached 150 with another 152 still missing. a memorial service at the school where most of the victims came from is being held near seoul. the bbc's jonathan head is on the island of jindo. he told me how the government is now responding a week on to pressure from the victims' families. >> reporter: the procession of police boats bringing the bodies of the victims of the boat at the dock behind me has continued through the day. likely to go on for some days yet. then eventually an operation to lift the hull of the ferry up to the surface of the sea. the government is under intense pressure to bring those believed to be responsible for this disaster to justice. and they've moved against more members of the crew, arresting four of them in the last 24 hours. that's a total of 11 including the captain who are under arrest. all of them on the bridge at the time the ferry got into trouble.

the authorities are investigating their role in what caused the ferry to capsize and in the failure to evacuate the hundred of passengers told to stay below. the government really is responding to a national mood of anger and anguish. we've seen that on display at memorial services held for those who died today. in particular, one in the tan of ansan. that's where the school, the pupils on board the ferry attended. some 325 peoples onboard the ferry and a very large number of those among the dead. we've seen grief and distress as members of the public and family members and friends came into a hall september aside for this memorial. a hall covered in flowers. on one wall were photographs of some of the students. people coming forward in tears holding each other to lay flowers. it's that mood the government now has to respond to. clearly the investigation into this accident will be moving quite quickly now. >> meanwhile, another

development potentially after the disaster of the disappearing malaysian airliner, mh370. unidentified material has washed ashore in southwestern australia. well south of perth. about ten kilometers east of the town of augusta. which is right down on the southern tip of western australia. let's go to the bbc's john donnison who spent many days out there in perth. what is being reported from the coordination center there? >> reporter: well, what they're saying is that police in western australia were alerted by some locals around 10 k, as you say, from augusta who had seen something washed up on the shore. the police have then taken photos o f that and they've sent it on to the bureau that's coordinating the search. also to the malaysian authorities as well. and they're now checking out exactly what it is. i would urge at the moment, we're going to have to be pretty cautious. of course, it could be

absolutely anything. on the other hand, you would think that the police in western australia would not send photographs of just anything over to the investigating authorities. they must think it's something worth looking into. >> but, of course, those who know the sea so well always say the sea eventually yields up its secrets. >> reporter: it does. and it will have traveled a long way if it is debris from the plane. i mean, we were flying out on those search planes a few weeks ago looking out over the southern indian ocean. in areas a few thousand kilometers off the coast of perth. this is some four hours south of perth. but, of course, it has now been almost seven weeks since the plane disappeared. so currents will have carried debris a pretty long way. this is the first time that the authorities have said they're looking into the possibility of something being washed up on the shore. so, as i say, we need to be cautious, but it's something we need to follow.

because it's the first time they've done it. presumably they wouldn't be looking into it if they didn't think it was something possible. >> all right. bbc's john donnison live from sydney. you're with us on bbc world news. i'm nik gowing. still to come, who will be the next manager of majesty united after the sacking of david moyes just over a day ago? [ male announcer ] the wright brothers started in a garage. mattel started in a garage. disney started in a garage. amazon started in a garage.

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you're with bbc world news with me, nik gowing. i have the latest headlines. president obama has just arrived in tokyo at the start of a tour of asia. he says a u.s. mutual defense treaty with japans does include islands at the center of a big dispute with china. as the search for flight mh370 continues, unidentified material has been washed ashore in australia in the extreme southwest.

what next for majesty united? who will be the next manager after the sacking of david moyes? man u are one of the biggest, richest and most popular football teams in the world. so who is being considered for the old trafford hot seat? united forward ryan gatiggs is temporary charge. he's not viewed as a long term candidate. guardiola insists he won't be leaving. also staying in germany is klopp. he has no intention of leving. simeone. and veteran louis van gaal another name in the frame. his contract finishing after this summer's world cup. there's also real madrid's ancelotti who won the english premier league with chelsea.

neil castas was one of the first journalists to break the news of david moyes' sacking. when he joined me from manchester, i asked who he thought would replace him. >> top of the list is ancelotti. a lot are saying why would he leave real madrid? he's fallen out with the president as many managers do at that combustible football club. he's on his way to a travel that could end up as a single at the cup of del ray. he may have had enough. he could go with his head held high. he loves english football. he loves the premier league. he's openly admitted that to be the best time of his managerial life. he's the man that fits the bill for old trafford. >> do you believe the others who say they're delighted to be where they are, they're doing well, they don't want to think about old trafford? >> i believe that in terms of klopp. and guardiolo. there's been a lot of bit of interference from above. with what he's got going there

at the moment, they're undoubtedly the best team in the world. you know, i can't see him leaving after one season. i mean, i understand what you're saying. managers who are currently employed are always going to say i'm staying where i am. it would be sort of a suicide note, wouldn't it? but i certainly think in those two instances, that is the case. >> neil, who do you think is going to make the decision? alex ferguson still involved in recommendations given the role he had in recommending moyes a year ago? >> he'd be involved because he's on the board. he's not going to be involved to the extent some people think. certainly not involved to the extent he was the last time. >> neil custis of the sun newspaper. finally, led zeppelin, one of the world's best known and loudest rock bands about to release dozens of previously unheard recordings. the first to be released this june. plus some live performances. the bbc's rebecca jones and matt everett of bbc radio 6 reflect

on the music. starting with the blues classic, "keys to the highway." ♪ i've got the keys to the highway ♪ ♪ i got to keep walking this highway ♪ >> reporter: what do you think? was it worth the wait? >> as far as i can say the kind of sketches behind the masterpieces. it was interesting to hear robert plant singing like an old blues band. >> reporter: you talk about robert plant's voice. it's interesting. i've spoken to both him, the lead singer, of course, and the guitarist, jimmy page, who spent 2 1/2 years combing through led zeppelin's archives. choosing the best material. when i spoke to both of them i

asked them what it was like to have that experience. >> it's reassuring. you've just got four incredible musicians that play as a band. i knew there was a lot we could do collectively to sort of move the whole boundaries of what the accepted music was at the time. i forgot about just where i was at as a performer in those days. and how my enthusiasm sometimes got in the way of finesse. and i listen to it and go, wow. why didn't i shut up a bit? >> reporter: we've got an early version of what many people consider to be the greatest rock 'n' roll song of all time. one of the greatest, at any rate. here we go. ♪ baby, you need love ♪ honey, you need love, baby you need love ♪ >> the three dozen unknown

tracks of led zeppelin 30 years on. the main news at this hour, u.s. president. [ become arack obama in japan. it also takes him to soul, kuala lumpur and manila. he's not going to china. you're with bbc world news. i'm nik gowing. back at the same time tomorrow. bye-bye.

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hello. you're watching "gmt" on bbc world news. i'm tim willcox. top stories, president obama in asia. will his much promised pivot finally be put into action? he's just touched down in japan for a tour of regional countries looking for better trading ties and u.s. support in their quarrels with china. >> i'm linda yueh. i'm in tokyo. i'll be bringing you the very latest on the u.s. president's tour. after weeks of fruitless searching,