hello and welcome to "newsline," it's monday, october 7th, i'm katherine kobayashi in tokyo. people on both sides of a political divide in egypt have taken to the streets in one of the most violent days in months. at least 44 people were killed in fighting between supporters and opponents of ousted president mohamed morsi.

supporters celebrated the 40th anniversary of the start of the 1973 arab/israeli war. military leaders have used the annual celebrations to bolster their own power. security forces turned out to watch for any signs of trouble. they reacted when thousands of anti-military demonstrators tried to march toward the square. they fired teargas to disperse the crowds, then gunfire echoed through the streets. >> translator: this demonstration is just the beginning. we're on our way toward more power. we'll continue to protest until we end the coup. >> translator: i'm disappointed with the muslim brotherhood. they should stop. what they need now is stability. >> security forces fought other battles with morsi supporters in the muslim brotherhood in the central province. military leaders overthrew the former president in july. they have been cracking down on

supporters ever since. a team of international inspectors has begun the process of destroying syria's chemical weapon stockpiles. the syrian government is believed to have a thousand tons of chemical weapons. the team will try to eradicate all such weapons by the first half of 2014. experts from the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons in the united nations summit in syria says tuesday the u.n. security council last month adopted a resolution demanding syria dismantle the stockpiles. the experts visited a military facility on sunday. they began the process of destroying rockets that can carry chemical arms in facilities that produce just weapons. sources say the team crushed the rockets with tanks. observers say the process began earlier than expected as the syrian government turned out to be cooperative. but some of the facilities are in battle grounds or in areas controlled by anti-government forces. that could effect the

-- affect the eradication process. japanese prime minister shinzo abe has arrived in bali, indonesia, to attend meetings of the transpacific partnership free trade agreement. the two-day summit will open on monday. abe plans to tell the other leaders that his government will implement stimulus measures along with the consumption of tax increase scheduled for next april. he hopes to achieve economic growth and improve japan's finances at the same time. abe will also attend tuesday's summit of countries involved in the tpp talks. he will ask the other leaders to speed up the negotiations so they can conclude the talks by the year end. ministers have been hard at work trying to find common ground on the details of the deal. they've wrapped up three days of meetings. they've met over and over as they try it narrow their differences and are realizing that reaching an agreement may not be uzi.

we have more. >> reporter: ministers from pacific rim nations gathered in bali and rold upheir sleeves to spe up the talks. the japanese minister told reporters they have made progress. he says the countries have a good chance of reaching a fra framework agreement after the summit. >> translator: we still have details we need to hammer out, but the direction is shaping up. >> reporter: the u.s. treasur present s be lding the talks. the u.s. aims to finalize an agreement this year to heighten its presence in the asia pacific

region. member nations are still divided. e u.s. want to extend co copyrights and patent protections. abe's concerned this would lead to fewer generic drugs. the u.s. seems to push reforms for state-owned enterprises, but many asian countries are oppo d opposed. delegates have yet to discuss elimination rules in detail. japan is hoping to exempt rice and other foreign produce, but the conclusion is still a long way off. ministers admit they've agree ot need further discussion. and the fact that u.s. president

barack obama won't be able to attend the summit due to the government shutdown isn't helping. participants denied that would have a big impact. >> mr. obama's absence is important. but nonetheless, it will not stop the process. >> translator: ministers from a number of nations have said we should not lose momentum to reach an agreement. >> reporter: but without a presence of the main driving force, the talks could suffer a setback. the leaders are expected to reach an agreement by the end of the year, but they face tremendous challenges as they try call a 21st century trade agreement. nhk world, bali, indonesia.

china's president is calling on taiwan to hold talks soon on bilatera pitic matters. s they are attending the apec summit. china and taiwan cannot hand down their political disputes from generation to generation. xi said he hopes to hold consultations with taiwanese officials on an equal footing and within the so-called one-china framework. they want to guarantee the rights and interests of people in both taiwan and china, urging china to open consulate offices on both sides of the taiwan strait. china hosts next year's apex meetings. many taiwanese are hoping that

china will accept the president's attendance at the summ. japan is planning new facilities on the pacific island of loto, also known as iwo jima. the defense minister said they are responsible for intercepting the communications of foreign military aircraft and vessels. made the remarks during his visit to the islan on sunday. he expressed concerns over the growing chinese military presence in the pacific. >> translato the seabed around this area is said to be rich in natural resources. collecting intelligence is crucial in protecting them. >> the ministry has requested a budget to set up on the island of loto. for gathering military intelligence for the next fiscal year starting in april. he visited the island's mt. sunibachi. a battleground between japanese and u.s. forces during world war ii. he also visited the locations where the remains of japanese

soldiers are still being collected. volunteers have planted 20,000 seedlings on a new levee off the coast of fukushima prefecture. the protected barrier contains rubble, wood and other debris from the tsunami of march 2011. volunteer groups organized sunday's event. about 3,000 participants took part. they divided into groups and planted the seedlings on mounds about 200 meters from the coast. >> translator: i planted the young trees and prayed that everyone will be safe from tsunami. >> the seedlings are expected to grow to a height of more than

ten meters in about ten years. farmers from fukushima prefecture, an area hit hard by the nuclear disaster, have showcased the safety of their produce at an event in london. the japan festival was held on saturday. in trafalgar square. crowds flock to 50 stalls selling japanese food. fukushima residents sold rice and fresh peach and apple juice. the products have labels showing they had passed tests for radioactive substances. >> it's great that the story's here for everyone to realize and acknowledge what's happening. and that people buy the produce and things get better. >> the head of a japanese residents group said that he wanted to promote the safety of fukushima products in a city that attracts people from around the world. >> translator: i was worried, but i feel encouraged to see our

food selling well. people are very supportive. >> the organizers say some of the proceeds will be used for children in fukushima who lost their parents. prime minister shinzo abe has expressed his gratitude to a good samaritan who lost her life. a letter from him was delivered to the family of a woman who died while rescuing an elderly man at a railway crossing. chief cabinet secretary yoshihide suga handed the letter to the bereaved family on sunday before the wake. natsue murata died while rescuing a 74-year-old man on tuesday. she was 40 years old. the letter said despite the danger, she attempted to rush to help a man who was lying on railway tracks and sacrificed her own life. in the letter, the prime minister offers deep condolences and genuinely honors her motive

of putting another person's life before her own. >> translator: she made the ultimate sacrifice to save the man. i wanted to express my gratitude to her. >> translator: it's so sad that a person with great courage had to die. >> murata's father expressed his gratitude for the letter and placed it on the altar. more japanese treerjs suffering from what's -- teenagers are suffering from what's being called internet dependency. the popularity of smartphones is only making things worse. the struggle has encouraged in schin the u.s. and south korea in find ways to break the addiction. we have two reports starting with nhk world. >> reporter: 28-year-old charlie pope is addicted to his

smartphone. >> physically, i'm feeling -- >> reporter: he receives counseling at a rehab center that specializes in treating patients like him. >> i do want to comment -- >> reporter: this is his seventh week there. when he wasn't at work, he played games on his phone. eventually, he couldn't sleep and became mentally unstable. >> i was never interacting with my friends. his absolutely no positive energy coming in from the outside world. i was just pouring all of my self-loathing and depression and anxiety -- >> reporter: mobile phones are banned here. five or six patients live communally. the idea is to get them to reconnect with actual people. as for insomnia and other symptoms, it can take three months for them to disappear. >> i've recognized that my addiction is a lot more powerful and a lot bigger and a lot more

insidious than i thought it was. >> reporter: some businesses also offer relief to phone addicts. this hotel offers a digital detox package. i'd like to check in, meez. >> may i take your digital device? >> reporter: and i surrender my digital device. so did the mcmahons. usually they're never without a mobile device. >> lucky. stained glass -- >> go to dinner with some friends, and they're sitting at dinner. suddenly they're looking at their smartphone and taking a text or shooting an e-mail. what it does is it takes away from them being present with us. >> reporter: this package costs about $570 for two per night. finally, some precious phone-free time together. >> this is just a chance to really unplug, unwind, and get away from the devices and just

really focus on what's most important, each other, relax. >> reporter: here in south korea people are addicted to their smartphones. a survey showed one out of every five people under 20 who don't have a device nearby suffer with symptoms. at this private school in seoul, most students have their own smartphone. teachers have difficulty keeping the students from playing games. so they use software that limits what the students can do on their phones. they might use the system in all schools. parents also use it.

now they decide how many hours their children use their phones. >> translator: i'll be back in the evening. i'll set it so that you can't use your phone until i get home. understand? i was always concerned that my child was using the phone too much while i was at work. now i don't have to worry. >> translator: it is inconvenient not using it whenever i want, but i guess i have no choice. >> reporter: a mobile phone obsession that takes control of people's behavior. a lesson for everyone in this high-tech age. nhk world.

donald keene has been a leading figure in the study of japan's literature for the past 70 years. his love affair with the country began in he came across a book on classical japanese literature in a new york bookstore. keene has since devoted his life to introducing japan's culture to the world. last month, a museum and research center dedicated to his work opened in nagata prefecture. we have this report. [ applause ] ♪ >> reporter: the donald keene center is more than just a museum of his life and works. it's also intended as a center for studying the field of japanese literature. the main hall holds an exhibit on nine individuals who played pivotal roles in keene's development and draws visitors through the trajectory of his life and work. visitors can also see his library which was brought over

from new york and reconstructed. to promote the study of japanese literature, keene has donated 2,500 books, records, and artifacts to be housed in the room. for over 50 years, keene was professor of japanese literature at columbia university new york, inspiring students with his passion for his field. over a period of 25 years, he wrote his 18-volume work, a history of japanese literature. it's now used around the world as a key textbook in the field. >> first of all, congratulationses on the opening of the keene center. >> thank you. >> what was it like, for you? >> well, it was rather weird. particularly because one of my studies in new york was taken entirely to kashiwazaki. the furniture, rugs, sports on the wall. i had the present and the past. and the one thing they couldn't

send from new york was the hudson river. >> now thankour classes on all your books. i think that to many foreign students it's become much easier to study japanese literature. >> especially at universities where there was no person to teach japanese, nobody who was particularly interested in japanese. suddenly there was a way to get a good idea of what japanese literature was like during the over 1,500 years of its existence. [ applause ] >> reporter: keene's understanding of japan extends beyond literature to many areas of culture. he's particularly enthusiastic about the japanese art of the puppet theater. [ speaking native language ] >> reporter: he organized a performance so that those attending his lecture could experience firsthand the appeal

of the music and the drama. thanks to keene's efforts, there's been a growth of interest in this traditional art form. four years ago, he helped revive a legendary drama that was lost and had not been performed for over 300 years. >> translator: i now have a greater understanding of it and want to see performances more often. >> reporter: not only literature, but you've also studied a lot about japanese performing arts. is that different to western place? >> eventually the difference would be that in the western play, there is not the traditional things. the opera's done in modern dress or being done at a gambling joint in las vegas. the japanese wouldn't do that. you can't imagine a kabuki play when everybody dressed in jeans,

short sleeves, and talked in an ordinary voice and not in a kabuki voice. no. you go there because you want a certain kind of theater. the poe the rtry, general atmos move you, and make something unforgettable. >> reporter: impaled by his deep affinity by japanese literature and culture, keene continues to study and write, to further spread their understanding around the world. nhk world. the olympic torch relay is underway in the russian capital, moscow. it will make a 65,000-kilometer journey en route to sochi where the winter games will kick off in february. [ cheers ] >> the olympic flame was flown from olympia, greece, where it

was lit on september 29th. it arrived in moscow on sunday after a relay across greece. vladimir putin lit the olympic flame red square in front of a crowd of spectators. he said the sochi olympics is a big event that all russian people are pulling together for. he says it's a shared dream that is finally becoming reality. the 65,000-kilometer route is the longest in the history of the winter olympic games. a total of 14,000 people will take part in the torch relayover 123 days. russia is hosting the olympic games for the second time. it held the summer games in moscow in 1980. it's time for a check on the weather with our meteorologist. good morning, a storm has made landfall in eastern china. what's the latest there? >> yes, we've been tracking a severe tropical storm since last week. it's finally made landfall in the province mainland china.

services and flights have been canceled and power outages are occurring in the provinces. now the system is moving toward the west and will continue to do so over land. that means it should weaken. so winds could weaken. however, that is set to move toward the west at a slow pace. so rainfall is going to be very huge. we're expecting more than 200 millimeters of rain to fall on already saturated ground over the next three days. enough to cause further flooding and even further up toward the north, near the shanghai area. you could be hit by drenching rainfall. now the southwestern islands of japan were hit over the weekend. it looks like more stormy conditions are likely to affect the area. we have more stormy conditions in the forecast. we have a very strong typhoon system that is likely to hit the okinawa islands this evening as a typhoon. it could recur toward the northeast and will probably get close to south korea or this

area tomorrow and then move through the rest of japan as we go into the middle part of the week. so much of japan will be in the path of the storm system. waves could be very high, about ten meters at most, with high tides, coastal flooding going to be very high risk in many places. and winds are going to be very strong. gusts of over 230 kilometers are likely near the center of the storm. of course, heavy rain. more than 200 millimeters in places. so many of us living in japan could be hit by the stormy conditions as we go into the next several days. further down toward the south, we have a heavy rain area over central and southern parts of thailand. heavy rain will continue for the next few days. so with the flooding landslides are a high risk. temperatures will be in the 30s to the south. to the north, cooler an average. only ten degrees here despite the sunshine. and tokyo at 27 degrees.

warmer conditions will prolong throughout the week. now across the u.s., you can see vivid clouds right here. then this is the vicious storm which has a history of causing winter storm conditions and also a numerous number of tornadoes in the midsection of the u.s. over the weekend. now, this area is experiencing heavy rain at this moment. i want to show you video from louisville, kentucky. heavy rainfall continued to flood roads in louisville, kentucky, on sunday. many cars and motorists became stranded in the floodwaters. more than 100 people have been evacuated from their homes. nearly 150 millimeters of rain fell over n over a 24-hour period. at least 45 roads were closed. now the risk of severe weather will continue across kentucky, cincinnati, as well as ohio for the next several hours. and the threat will affect the northeastern u.s. as we go into monday. even tornadoes cannot be ruled out. but behind it, getting drier. but a new system will be moving

in to the pacific northwest. once again, still on the chilly side toward the northwest. cooler than areas in some places in the north. still on the hot side in houston at 29 degrees for you. here's the extended forecast.

that's all for this edition of "newsline." i'm katherine kobayashi in tokyo. thank you very much for joining

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