what you will. you name it the us. welcome to nhk world news line and you know tawny until chilled. here's a look at some other stories we're following this hour. i am thailand's prime minister decides to go ahead with the general election on sunday despite calls from protesters to postpone the vote chinese officials are shutting down live poultry markets to try and stop her from spreading. just days before new year

celebrations in the country and officials from what the city are promoting homegrown are supplied the two countries in the kitchen trying to improve what comes out of there thailand is going ahead with an election the vote is scheduled for every second prime ministry election no one does all the lower house and called a snap election in december. after anti government protesters staged large demonstrations demanding that she was on the opposition has been calling for political reforms before elections are held show up on some rumor has more from bangkok. thai election commission officials met with prime in the standings on tuesday and said this a pro government candidates adverts a showing of winning the election. they say the decision to proceed may stem from the boxes i took root for teams that get to see the government thinks

that postponing the election will not solve anything we have to proceed with the election on the very second my accordance with the royal decree of how people play. actu on said the country's constitutional court ruled that dealing with the eagle. what sent both the election commission and the government needed to agree to any change of schedule. in response to the ongoing protests. i was a sixty day state of emergency in bangkok and surrounding areas. last week to demonstrate its continued to occupy me to intersections in the capital. and that's the routine had been scheduled to take place on sunday. he was suspended at fourteen nineteen fifties people and places in bangkok lincoln street is not the entrance sees one pence and was shot dead and several of the swing in june in an apparent attack on the team demonstrates his consents are

mounting as a way that the election could be held safely. the recent round of demonstrations was treated on saturday and priming is standing up trying to get the continent to cause a controversial amnesty bill mendez of the opposition's we acted shocked me and said the deal with our team that's all the time that former prime minister seems to delight your time to time and he was ousted in two thousand and six ministry coat and is in self imposed to see and do not have strong support in the areas in the north and north east have been left behind in its finance economic rise. what has come mostly from the nato wants to see nazis had won landslide victories since two thousand and one contest is continue to team on that critical reforms be implemented before elections are held. tuesday's announcement means the demonstrations are likely to continue. and that's it

for updates and upgrades hundred am in bangkok. people in china are dealing with the rapid spread of the tv and influenza or bird flu cases of the new age seven and nine strain first recorded in china last march had been found in the eastern and southern parts of the country. nhk world you tell county has more the friday will be the start of the dude and yuki maintain its dominance with by night poultry from ten local market and the people found that gavin thinks. what did the ride was killed first taste much better. the cia will be different because of their. to look into delhomme go should open a market in colonel joe was shut down c seventeen told you what to tell you the agriculture department has banned eating my apple tree at home working

puzzle pieces in time out reports and at one hundred and three patients were being diagnosed with bird flu and generally unknown. of these forty nine cases saying the eastern province of the cia. others have been found in the southern province is like one going self of twenty two cases have died the australian coach john is crowded with people who hear the infected by bird flu. five pts the health of pieces the shutting down markets that sell live poultry is the virus may be hostile to people through contacted by the us. thirty minutes drive from downtown is on high. we found an eagle bend. he was sending chickens and pigeons audience with cheese which bonds they like and you'll kill the author. it comprises

about twenty percent cheaper than the normal market products. our market was shut down by the government. we had to kill two thousand birds by ourselves but we did not get any compensation. i have no choice but to sell our birds in the street. few days it had been in ut at the key man for taking the pics up. and those of them being transported all the costs. during the new year season more than three pm people mover on the continent it. the lord hath of existing plants that don't even know it is the sustained human to human transmission of the bus the guilt of red's remain visit and asking people to avoid contact with my parents that sunday and it still won't stop us. and i jeffrey is education ministry officials want students to have a clear idea of what

makes up the country's territory favor of ions to instruction manuals used with school curriculum guidelines the author is an educators use them any less when writing textbooks and teaching classes. they will use the revised ones for junior high school social studies classes and the in the senior high school geography history and civics classes there by as many as say the textbook should clearly describe this in cancun and tactician my lens has an inherent part of japan's territory. they say teachers and textbooks should explain how the islands came to be incorporated into japanese territory. in accordance with international law. the revised manuals point out that this end cuckoo islands are under japan's valid control and that there is no issue of territorial sovereignty china and taiwan say the islands are part of their territory as for the technician islands the revised manuals say japan has been protesting

their illegal occupation by south korea. ministry officials will tell education boards across the country about the revisions. they will also urge publishers to reflect the content of the new manuals and textbooks from the two thousand and sixteen school year education minister devotional without says it's important for children to have court knowledge of their country's territory. does it mean when you do it. there is no in compatibility between clearly teaching children about the country'staining fris with neighboring countries are not enough usable for the night. jerome was said she will work with the foreign ministry to explain japan's position to neighboring nations. china and south korea have both reacted strongly. chinese foreign ministry spokesperson watchman ying said that her country has lodged a protest about the revisions. it's

really sad. we didn't. and this historical facts and two kids and generations. i feel it is today. they should stop such publications and work hard to improve relations with neighboring countries in south korea first vice foreign minister kim dili on summons. japanese ambassador for will be shown to the ministry. he strongly protested against the revised manuals the foreign ministry later accused japan of planning to teach false claims to its young people what is going on in a south korean government strongly condemns this action and demands the japanese government withdraw the menu and you yes you will. if your hair does not do this yet our government will take firm oddly appropriate measures officials in seoul say the likely won't discuss the issue with their counterparts in the chain business leaders in japan and china are eyeing each other's economies as new

places to expand. even as political tensions between the two countries remained tense job opportunities are for xing for people in both nations and its perils. i can hear amigo to reports the front and eighty japanese firms and departing a job fair in d c and a mom therefore was eager to expand operations in china about five hundred chinese students. i think is the day about twenty per cent from last year. will they want to get the exterior is using the japanese fleet skills gained its first one. it also means that it's of course i take the strain by an adult i seem to account on what i want to do is enter a japanese company. japanese firms are creating a lot of jobs in china to its new way china's economic growth is

slowing. to me the job over to the chiefs. so chinese students. wind chills that japanese companies walked on the we spoke to the japanese firm. using innovative including techniques. for great to be called great money to us money just dismiss the clothing company intend to train chinese groups at the stores in japan if all goes according to brown. after four to five years. that's right it's tough to run stores in china the company he's the best way to succeed in china is to teach chinese indonesians about japanese taiwanese you won't see an old case local cultural differences will make it hard for japanese managers to successfully run stores in china. that's why i believe that our company is an absolute meet his chinese managers some chinese

companies have begun closely connected to japanese begins each detail is defined as the courts. they're concerned that the abuse this might be affected. this site the firm is based in the city of to do things so i jumped on us the details of sticking issue of race and decency and address austria for japanese companies. the company did four years its new chinese groups to complete six months of japanese unrestrained. so jenny can prevent them from speaks japanese during the on call from sis was saying stop in tokyo. i know a little it's nice to me. usually it's the company's president he studied the supposedly you for speaking japan. he

then walked for a japanese site the company before funding to software from him to suffer the company is going to grab it. the spirit soared more than sixty city of bath soap. social mood to do a little walk we understand japanese culture so our services can meet whatever demands of our japanese clients make his two sons. however the company here's the gift of hindsight at times worse. did you become what they go to find new cars. so tune in to score in japan and china relations are concerned. we think they are inseparable bond. that's why we're motivated to do our best to try to come up with ways to use that on a sole shoes. observers say. if you take a long time to mend the sunday times. companies from the two nations. he too cheap to raise sons friend

yes access depends on it you see an eagle that age you are. china and taiwan are preferred to hold meetings that could lead to expand the dialogue between the two sides. the taiwanese minister in charge of mainland affairs will visit china next month for the first ever ministerial level talks the head of taiwan's mainland affairs council want you she will make a four day trip to none. jamie and shanghai are from every eleven he'll meet with china's taiwan affairs office director zhang zhi zone to discuss establishing their own heroes on both sides of the taiwan strait. until now cross strait dialogue has been conducted through private institutions and as focused on economic areas analysts say one games to lay the groundwork for a possible summit between taiwanese preston flying joe and chinese presidents she's in pain has had an asia pacific economic cooperation forum in the mainland this

year she has been pressing taiwan to agree to political discussions with an eye toward event re unification of the two sides. the us and china i want to get north korea back to the bargaining table to discuss its nuclear program. but the american envoy in charge of north korea policy isn't hopeful us refer to as special representative glenn davies met his chinese counterpart wu di away for two days in beijing who chairs the six party talks on north korea's nuclear program. davies says they discussed stepping up pressure on north korea to bring it back to what he called realistic discussions on the denuclearization of the korean peninsula the talks had been suspended for over five years davies says that he who agreed it is important to resume discussions but davies says that north korea shows no signs of wanting to deal with the nuclear issue he hinted that it's unlikely that the talks will resume soon. i

do. a ukrainian parliament is scaling back controversial anti protest legislation the move comes after ten days of violent demonstrations and is an apparent move to the peace protesters. the parliament has voted to remove nine out of. while my items from a law restricting the right to protest the legislation was adopted less than two weeks ago prime minister. nikolas and roth has also offered his resignation. opposition leaders have welcomed the moves but they want more their colleague on authorities to free demonstrators and political prisoners in detention they're also asking for revision of the constitution to limit the powers of the present. it's unclear whether the protests will

subside. the unrest erupted in late november after preston victory in a cove which announced that he would seek closer ties with russia instead of signing a deal with the european union. at least three people have died in clashes with security forces. more than four hundred others have been injured. the mayor of the host city of this year's winter olympics has joined the debate about homosexuality in russia anatoly the home also has told the british broadcasting corporation that not a single gay person who lives in sochi the comments come less than two weeks before the winter olympic games get underway apollo says that homosexuality is not accepted in the caucus is including sochi. he also says people in the city will extend their hospitality to everyone who respects russian law. last year a law was passed in the country betting information on homosexuality

being given to children under eighteen years of age. it also banned the association's western leaders including us president barack obama as well as the hands of france and germany have already said they will not attend the olympics opening ceremony and said very seven analysts say. the snob is an apparent protest of russia's human rights record including discrimination against gay people. the decision by officials in the state of western australia to introduce the shark call has sparked controversy. they say they want to make the swimming beaches safer but not everyone agrees with their approach. in the past fourteen years. eleven people and been killed in the state and shark attacks seven of them have occurred since two thousand and ten the country's broadcaster abc television aired footage of fishermen catching a three meter long shark one of them leaned over the side of the boat and shot the fish it was then dumped at sea the anti whaling group sea

shepherd has strongly condemned the call. it calls a cruel. local residents have also question whether there were other options available to prevent sharks from approaching surfers and swimmers. asian nations was under the vault water supply systems are beginning to turn into japanese technology to provide them with safe drinkable tap water. one japanese municipality is enjoying success in promoting its water supply technology overseas. ricciuto municipalities operate on most often wonder if assistance in japan. the city of sticky issue in western japan provides clean tap water to the city's four hundred and ninety thousand households. the city developed a water purifying machine with a private company fifteen years ago microorganisms attacks to activate the carving itself

the pollutants. the machine is half the price of up to two parents. it uses less chlorine to disinfect the line accused officials started promoting technology with private firms from two thousand tend to mature economies in asia. it use to it. last thursday she has a long history as the city of technology and manufacturing it's our mission to take action. that's something we must do the qq officials are known to mankind to two pm om is the country's third biggest city. ross series industrial waste water is discharged into rivers the river water is purified for use as tap water by adding lots of chlorine. but that determination can generate harmful substance this unspoilt tap letter for drinking cooking. they want clean water to their children

can safely drink. maybe in the mind that he announces i don't feel safe using tap water i feel uneasy because i have small children. they don't have any other choice you know she did teach officials told their counterparts at the high from what the he about that one of purification technology. if the enemy's officials like with this i decided to start using it to the system. when the operation last month when i heard from officials based their decision on a low cost of the japanese system this is the scoring the machine succeeded in eliminating most of the coupons. the japanese system has caught the attention of officials in coaching vietnam's biggest city. they started testing at the summer. that could lead to a deal worth almost twenty million dollars. seven out of

the enemy cities have also asked the ticket officials to current sites here. providing people with this reply or supply is one of our biggest goals. i hope that technology will produce good results yet he gave me. if we want to get orders from abroad we need to go into the field with local officials and in a talk with them about what needs to be the jewish officials have high hopes for their work in vietnam. they hope will encourage japanese companies to work together to design water resource management systems. and when orders from overseas car. there's an ice storm in u s southern states including georgia our meteorologist rob that specter has more proper. ball of ice storms snow windy conditions and chilly weather has really been the topic out

here and we have a school for dissenting all the way down here toward the south and yes george over towards the carolinas all year to be looking at some fairly heavy ice accumulation of snow but ice could be piling up your deftly causing some problems and after storms articles and promised that by the tours are possible in a video of the dons center minneapolis now most of this gave me the minneapolis ap minnesota most of a state of minnesota why is i've had its walls close here on tuesday it over towards wednesday in the cities of chicago milwaukee cincinnati and cleveland art schools close well numerous traffic accidents you to see the other was white out conditions this is what resulted into and out it does look like these conditions will continue to persist at least going through the next twenty four hours. it's just these and windy conditions and very cool they are out there so white out conditions but this is the hotspot spices severe weather. we're talking about heavy ice

accumulation heavy snowfall it's a storm system eight years moving from west to east as it moves towards these picking up some more easter out of the gulf stream that's intensify and so hoping that onshore oil were running here and what we have seen. anywhere you see here in the green more soul father here towards the southern georgia up portions of south carolina that trees he bought the eight millimeters of that freezing rain build up north at about five centimeters of heavy snowfall out there in the north. that's just the cool weather we have been talking about scotland minus seventeen year on year tuesday was an ecm minus seven and led ten minus two come by and fall with the fall weather. you are seeing in the air then sell that cold front to go to that money and yet when the sap in there. on a tuesday night in gate from north to south of the frontal area bus is going on in eastern asia clear weather up here. the court all that dry weather

persisting with us five this week for the philippines it may be changing. later on this week to deliver this the satellite picture you can see a little low starting to stand up you just went south west of wild critter on the caroline islands. this very well could be the next tropical depression than them by friday bringing yet another dose of heavy rain out there wanna keep an eye and this one for now though i'll talk about the winter weather release in the north we are seeing the forty to fifty centimeters of snow falls in the fresh power there and western portions hokkaido couple put down for a poker regal africa needed to move off high pressures work in a swing and awesome pumping in some warm in here along the western per korea that but fueling up another system which by friday. also can you bring in some more rain across korea and much of western japan as far as authentic as though it's not so bad saying no the eye of fourteen to the getting up to eleven. so let's settle above average at least for this time of year. c was going on in the year fully at several storm systems one of the british isles in this one

just three in windy conditions ways that of six to seven meters high rate calls years in some snow fall the higher elevations but this stuff are in store. read here if you're out here you know it's just been on persisting for several days even some heavy snow ball fight that it was an orphan severe weather especially read your call so here is another trainee in hot grease your game be looking at some thunderstorms out here table it happens there. i see partly cloudy skies on your wednesday but surrounding area staff only to be continuing to kick up the sleep you will love it physics than forecast. ay ay ay ay ay ay ay ay ay the time. i know. i was

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