hello, and welcome to "newsline." a north korean special envoy has reportedly hint at a return of multi national talks. state run media in china quote them as saying north korean officials are willing to rye solve problems through various forms of dialog. this is a close aide to north korean leader kim jong un. he met president xi jinping in beijing and delivered a letter

from kim. the president told him chinese leaders want a agreement for talks. those cu countries are the two koreas, china, russia, japan and the united states. they are willing to resolve problems through various dialogs for peace and stability on the peninsula. officials in pyongyang have repeat lid said they would never return to the six party talks. u.n. secretary-general told nhk he welcomed the news. he urged the north koreans to take concrete steps towards restarting the six party talks. >> i'm encouraged by positive news coming from are the authorities of democratic party of korea.

i hope this will be followed up by active implementation. >> he praised chinese leaders for building momentum through bilateral talks. >> i'm ready to do whatever i can in forwarding this positive moment. >> delegates from the six countries last gathered in december 2008. the men who claim to have masterminded the raid on an algerian gas plant in january may still be active. a statement attributed to mokhtar belmokhtar says he was involved with the terror attacks this week in niger. suicide bombers launched attacks thursday on a uranium mine and a military camp. they killed at least 20 people. the news agency in mauritania

says a man claimed responsibility of the report says the man claimed the attacks were the retaliation for killing of an islamist commander in mali. it says he's threatening more attacks. local government leaders in japan are criticizing a nuclear research agency for being slow to report an accident. spokespersons for the government

affiliated japan atomic energy association waited more than a day to report that four workers had suffered internal exposure. the accident happened on thursday morning. the researchers were firing a beam over gold to generate elementary particles. the device malfunctioned and the output of the beam rose 400 fold. the high temperatures vaporized the gold generating radiation. agency spokespersons say the worker the suffered internal exposure. they believe there's no risk to their health. workers have sealed off the building. they say no radioactive substances have leaked from the compound. and that radiation levels at monitoring posts have not changed. however, officials with ibaraki prefecture say their data show

that radiation elevated slightly on friday. they reported the accident on friday evening, about a day and a half after it happened. they're asking for the reason behind the delay. ibaraki officials also want answers. >> translator: the report of the accident came too late. we will inspect the facilities as soon as possible. >> spokespersons for the japan atomic energy agency have apologize for the trouble that has been caused. engineers decommissioning the fukushima daiichi nuclear plant are getting ready to apply a new tool to a growing problem. they're testing a system to decontaminate wastewater that's accumulating at a rate of hundreds of tons a day. officials with tokyo electric power company gave government regulators a report on the tests. they say the system is running

well. the advanced liquid processing system can remove 62 types of radioactive material. it can treat 250 tons of water a day. tepco has three such systems. engineers have been testing one since late march. regulators gave them permission to start testing the other two in the middle of next month. about 400 tons of brown water seeps through cracks in the building at fukushima every day and becomes contaminated. government quo fissions and engineers hope to see all the dough contamination systems running at full capacity as soon as possible. japanese government officials will be taking part in the trans-pacific partnership free trade talks for the first time in july. but they'll have a limited time at the negotiating table and limited information. government officials from 11 asia pacific countries wrapped up their latest tpp talks in

peru. they agreed to meet in malaysia in july. formalities mean that japanese officials will only be able to take part for the last three days, still negotiators from other countries say they're glad the japanese will be involved. >> we are aware that japan would like to take part in the july round in a sub standtively meaningful manner, and we believe that can be arranged. >> japanese negotiators will also have to work with limited information. they can't access documents and past negotiations before they take part in the talks. japanese leaders plan to send officials to participating countries to gather information. japan's prime minister shinzo abe is leading a coalition to build ties in myanmar. he is the first japanese leader to visit the country in 36 years. he touched down in myanmar's

largest city. he will be there for three days. he plans to visit opposition leader aung san suu kyi. he'll then visit the president and urge him to push for more democracy and reconciliation with ethnic minorities. abe man does say japanese leaders are ready to use their overseas budget to help with power and water. he's accompanied with executives from about 40 japanese firms. they plan to form agreements with business people. here's the three day world weather forecast.

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