the us. it was when we will or will. welcome to your oldest one and you know tommy and tokyo shares a look at some other stories we're following this hour. i am. us secretary of state is in beijing apparently seeking china's help in keeping your reaction to. people living in wide areas of japan are once again struggling to blast of snow that dog more than fifty seven meters in some parts and some communities across japan are helping dementia sufferers. my opening cafes

designs for their deeds. us secretary of state john kerry is now visiting beijing as part of a four nation tour he's there to discuss north korea and other key issues with chinese leaders. terry flew to the chinese capital from south korea. even with foreign minister won the after a meeting with president she's in pain. we know that going for the year the car. progress in dubai i'm over that. there are differences but it is. but too late. we were off. i mean i told both our countries can expand cooperation in various fields resolve differences and disputes properly and fully implement a modern relationship between china and the us. observers

believe kerry is likely to have massed his chinese hosts to use their influence on north korea to keep the country from engaging in acts of provocation. some analysts fear. north korea could take such actions during the upcoming joint military drills between the us and south korea senior officials from north and south korea have met for the second time this week. a south korean delegates as the two sides have agreed to go ahead with the planned reunions of families separated by the korean war the officials met at the truce village of carmen jones. the meetings were the first high level talks between the two sides since south korean president cochrane entered office the south's chief delegate to you. jones told reporters that the officials agreed to hold family reunions as scheduled for six days starting on every twentieth kim said the two sides also agreed to stop making slanderous remarks about each

other. but north korean officials reportedly suggested that they cannot hold family reunions. while south korea u s military exercises are taking place the north is opposed to the annual joint exercises set to start on february twenty fourth. kim said he explained that the plan reunions are a first step toward development of inter korean relations based on trust. he added the north's officials accepted the view a senior japanese government official will attend a ceremony later this month to assess our asserts the nation's claim over the top issue my lips they are in the sea of japan and controlled by south korean leaders in tokyo maintain the country is illegally occupying them. the minister of ocean policy and territorial issues speech imo locals says he will send a parliamentary secretary to attend the ceremony. there is no doubt that our kitchen

islands are an inherent part of japanese territory in line to distort facts and on the basis of international law. the government has constantly been considering measures to reassert its position on the curatorial the show. the dispatch of a government official is one such that. yamamoto said the government has no intention to hurt bilateral agents he said the decision was made after the officials considered various factors from a comprehensive view point. she won a prefectural holds the ceremony every year he has designated for every twenty seconds as tactician my day to mark japan's incorporation of the highlands in nineteen oh five the government sent a cabinet office parliamentary secretary to the event for the first time last year south korea's foreign ministry officials urged the japanese government to retract the decision to the embassy in seoul. they say they cannot tolerate but they called two straight years of provocation by japan people in japan are pushing

through strong winds and trudging through a carpet of snow. the second major snowstorm in less than a week slammed into the pacific coast. friday morning at the snow began falling again in wide areas including tokyo many struggle walking especially of pills the top it is obama not only that but i get finished my work an hour any guy to go back home before the snow cats idea at all. i mean i've been thinking i can heartily season will be statistically icy roads and caused thousands of traffic accidents across the archipelago. leaving at least two people dead and hundreds others injured. this is your weather track the number of tourists on their way into the e cig grand shrine in central japan some of the area have experienced their first no warning in a half century the storm has paralyzed transportation doing shinkansen bullet trains and

forced airlines to cancel hundreds of flights. severe winter storms are also hitting other parts of the world people we in the north eastern us are facing a second heavy snow fall which has already claimed dozens of lives governor andrew cuomo declared a state of emergency for areas including new york city and long island the snowstorm move north along the east coast after delivering a blanket of white snow the white stuff. two southern us states earlier in the week. the winter weather system has already resulted in tragedy. some new york residents froze to death in a pregnant woman was hit and killed by a snowplow. local media say more than one million homes and businesses were without power and to more than sixty five hundred flights were canceled on thursday alone. and local is valentine's day weekend i came in a business trip was leaving to go home and leave

this morning but pleasant trip for valentine's day announced that the offense bo was awful. federal offices remained closed in washington and staff were ordered to be on standby at home. aye aye aye aye aye aye. thousands of people in syria are trying to flee from the fighting between the government of which are all outside and opposition forces. a temporary truce to help them leave the country was one small but it was one small compromise achieved in key stocks. but negotiators have made little progress and for many refugees the struggles continued even after they've left an eight year old schoolmates and she reports from northern jordan be the doctor to have it soo im bored. he's effectively a

city in the head with a population of one hundred thousand. like in the camp he's taking home less and less prominence. with pedro loose. power lines. and now privates of beaumont refugees say it serves their needs for the distribution of food rationing and basic necessities. they can select what they want to buy and pay with coupons issued by the united nations. mommy how the products are good quality and reasonably priced. you can find everything here from afar you. if you know. the un refugee agency operating the camp that he's preparing to create a bus routes one and built a fire station. no one and two. no reason than to keep them in limbo and and and the month providing vast quantity of goods to the abuse of wire then

the sun. life here is still hard. for the past year forty two year old muhammad's of forty has said he stands with his wife and seven children at night the temperature drops close to zero they have no future. all they have all the mattresses and blankets murray has trouble sleeping because of the cold seeping through from the ground the zoo for years to walking construction when he lived in syria. refugees have little chance to war in georgia. he has no income and no prospect of finding a home outside this camp. one of the ashes so i don't think we will be able to return to syria for many years. i can't see any improvement in security taking place that will allow me to take my family in

the nt. he longs to return home. but he expects little from the negotiations in switzerland. kuwait city n j or soccer camp. georgia officials from china and taiwan are reflecting on efforts to bridge the divide between them. they've held their first high level talks since china and taiwan split more than six decades ago they agreed on several matters but there is much more to discuss any care rolls melky much time reports from non chain. taiwan's mainland affairs council minute she'd be a good time this is the first time that the taiwanese helpful to show in charge of chinese and koreans puzzle piece a recent book on chinese soil the head of china's taiwan the fee itself is done teaching greek and won. you

and your child in china and taiwan have communicated through an open saturday at the little faces as they courted differing views it as a sobering. we all application we need to apply imagination. we want a breakthrough in the relationship which interest them we need to have meetings line between. we must also use more imagination about future top we knew this day to remember as our cross strait relations and entered a new chapter. it is has gone from daily to be a trust based upon the idea oh one attacks. three or so and when edt improve communications and hold them on weekends. two hundred of his creature it out i'd soo cute in communications and the seats. they agreed to establish an okay show that it could be as americans the day had been coaxing them to. today i did

the agreements one defeat at the mo three am cst. still haunted him as an ice hockey to read to mean an amalgam of scotland. when he has the head of taiwan's mainland affairs council. we did go to visit two sons mausoleum deeply touches you can handle taiwan has the best and see about concrete diet of the time. that's because i won't be as it might be in gov't right time. but taiwan is so creative that economic ties with china may suffer if each continues to refuse dial in seeking course that as it was time. he needs to tread carefully. the test and conceded the scenes mortgage loan with copd and over taiwan needs. chelsea match into an hq are just dancing for china's perspective on

these developments. we spoke with our reporter craig hill yamamoto in our baking studio only china has high hopes that the meeting could jones though political lol the media gave the initial coverage for its local when you speak to say that it was a historic meeting with the two parties agree to more cross strait exchanges sailor will say that china and taiwan. almost the rules that rule motivational times still the two sides remain far apart and solutions oolong is reluctant to hold political discussions the cool they could lead to unification with china balenciaga main station shooting pain in his unit was called ghost walks the difficulty for leaders in china as the naples to aggressively full clinical trial. taiwan could become more wary. while malaysia for

casino with a sheet and taiwanese president ma li in general will leave this fall in preaching and society of the asia pacific economic cooperation for. china faces a dilemma. for one. he wants to show the role that its intentions towards dialogue and peaceful while at the same time. it doesn't want more to be too active at international conferences the motor was too sensitive to the race at tuesday's meeting. so it is highly likely that china and they will face off negotiations aye aye aye. officials with a japanese electric power company have applied for a government safety screening to restart a nuclear reactor facility in central japan is in a region that experts say could be hit by a major quake

a vice president of general electric power company filed the application with the nuclear regulation authority's he wants inspectors to examine safety measures for the number four reactor at the ha my local plant inches to the picture the utility halted operations at the government's request following the completion of nuclear accidents. nearly three years ago. crews have been enhancing the disaster assistance of the site including construction of a twenty two meter high sea wall to protect the facility from tsunami. we were raised on sincerely any questions from authorities on safety measures. we will do our best to explain the safety of the plant power companies across japan have submitted safety screening applications for seventeen reactors and ten plants. all forty eight commercial reactors in the country are currently offline. delegates from more than one hundred forty countries have gathered in mexico to discuss nuclear arms. they plan to talk about

how the weapons affect people around the world. the second international conference on the humanitarian impact of the women's open in the city of nine yen each five survivors of relatives of victims of the key toshiba and that is on the bombings spoke on the opening day lulu. everyone should listen to the survivors please not to repeat the mistakes of the past. we ask people everywhere to take the first to create a nuclear free world and elliot from austria spoke of japan's complicated position on the issues he said any country under a nuclear umbrella will have difficulty speaking about the weapons but he said the country has a unique perspective to contribute. i think the involvement of the time of course is extremely important being the only country that has

been affected directed by nuclear weapons last october to kansai the un statement saying nuclear weapons should not be used under any circumstances. the country's leaders had previously avoided signing the document because it went against the reliance on the u s nuclear umbrella. and residents of the marshall islands are also committed to telling others about the dangers of nuclear weapons. they've spent decades dealing with the aftermath of atomic and hydrogen bomb tests in their presence as all those who have experienced the tragedy of nuclear bombs should unite to tell the world. out into me and the weapons are an aged care worlds meet scottish power reports people living on the marshall islands have seen firsthand what new zealanders can do. us scientists conducted sixty seven atomic and hydrogen can stand in the nineteen forties

and fifty s. residents of the pacific islands are still dealing with the after effects. what the epicenter a bit. copy what i steal all of that. by the people the events. missy and marshall island as my mom has seen many mystery of the most devastating against us forces to say that i don't jam on the beach. the device was one thousand times more powerful than the one drop donahue machine. yet that's what i and the us will think of him and gave no warning to those living near the test side the un says more than two hundred and fifty people were exposed to high doses of radiation. the nuclear fallout kid cocoon of a japanese fishing boat near the site. one man that died six months later. president

christopher j williams mark the anniversary of the test by visiting japan. he told people that response from the tents up on computer the rule. i knew. helium and. people stealing things and we don't know when the league. elliott says the new creation is at the forefront of this forty pounds. he wants to see two weapons ban. he's planning to visit hiroshima for the first time this weekend. to connect with people who can help spread his ideas. when i use

them. anyone that nice the most to me. sixteen eighteen. meantime do the will of the bonnet. anti nuclear power keeping a steamed some traction after the twenty eleven tax then in the krishna. nus president barack obama has said he wants a well read of nuclear weapons. oh and wants to see real changes he says people should never forget that nuclear weapons shatter lives for generations. when each color. in a stairwell with tokyo. though. people in communities across japan are reaching out to neighbors who are grappling with dementia there are openings cafes for sufferers and caregivers can get professional advice and a

chance to socialize. a neighborhood group in the city of kawasaki in your tent camp set up this dimension campaign last september. it's opened once a month at a local community center. the main goal of the people who managed the campaign is to educate the community about dementia their season long term care specialists familiar with dimension of red vines to caregivers and neighbors health professionals can stop signs of dementia by having informal chats with people. and you need to really test team indictment says. a seasoned photo is a former nurse who worked with dementia patients for forty years. she tells people that the campaign how to relate to people with the disorder i don't get me down and i can

in some instances. in dimension kathy's also give sufferers and caregivers to stand next to people in the community. she and e t bill yes you do live by themselves. you see me has dementia. a neighbor invited him to the campaign last year after noticing the couple's seldom left their house. a health nurse realize that you see me captain and ten. she was able to receive specialized and after that she use to be a tea ceremony teacher. the manager of the campaign team for the job of making tea. she's thrilled by the responsibility and looks forward to visiting everyone. i'm grateful that everyone enjoys drinking the tea i make. following the still it makes me sad to them every show for. she

feels better too. when she comes to the cafe the members of the kami ni team with coach who helped you with a growing problem of dementia. unique lessons well my dad. by creating a space where we can relax chat and also learn about dementia we hope to help people realize that they may well have to deal with this problem is on a personal level in the future. and then from from. to mention specialists held a forum to talk about setting up more of these campaigns in. use the term of flaky crust of how she organized the forum he says the demands of campaigns have great potential. schools and families responsibilities are late and even a little the patient can live longer

that means less of an economic burden on site. this is how society should you with dementia. it would be wonderful with dementia care these could come up part of that framework. she plans to drop guidelines to ensure demand to kathy's offer appropriate assistance to sufferings. he sent the cafes can help women of prejudice and meet people with dementia realize they aren't alone it's snowing not only outsider studios in tokyo but also in the united states neurologists trevor expected choices from her. in eastern seaboard of the us really dealing with light yet another ah severe winter storm out here has been causing numerous traffic delays also the airline separately by either canceled or delayed for many of you up and down on the atlantic states are cutting off their tours new england. it's this storm system rating a casino

with that led to the state's promise it's time to wrap up right there that's moving northeast. still some areas and parts of newfoundland overt was quebec. you can see at the thirty fifty centimeters out of this one behind a little break in the weather i'm like the thing that's gonna last unfortunately that is not the case in the sea ray peterson a erie in the blue starting to develop that to the movies and bringing heavy snow fall on the ohio river valley eventually up and down the eastern seaboard again in the mid atlantic states on friday night believe your saturday. you're going to be seeing them again. another severe winter storm out here this was not to be having that effect of the freezing rain though that's what we're talking about with this last one. this mainly is to be all snow sledding over towards a green farther down here towards the soft key thing is this was coming in from the northwest advice of stuff on the gulf of mexico meanwhile across the pacific northwest in a brisk long we have yet another storm system coming onshore rapier the screen is unfairly gusty winds up about a hundred kilometers per hour at times heavy rainfall or elevations

of the higher elevations up there on the mound sites and to the pass is twenty forty seven years as well. it could be expected counted on for the south milk used in a twenty three staying nice and warm there for you. i thought about of western europe and specifically the uk yet again you are seeing one storm system will bop airport's north and another one is coming in behind and i know it's only a broken record when i say that the thing in almost every day this week and it is really it's been the case. the storm systems are just lining up one after another. this was coming and bringing winds possibly cost of two hundred fifteen hundred sixty kilometers per hour that's the debris bring in at risk of storm surge along the western seaboard of the british isles but not just that. it's the rainfall were talking about already saturated ground some rivers are already flooded. you get this more rain. it flows rate of rivers and were talking about further flooding and mudslides. at this point are also in major risk not just here even downpours the idea of this law is seeing showers as london paris madrid list and all that rain showers in

the forecast over towards italy into the balkans its upper low pressure systems gonna be moving trickier happen to see us showers there but the big thing is that in doing the work its way towards the east in the seventy third out the we can't expect someone with others and really convincing year and forecast higher elevations. this is likely going to be single for snow this is the forecast. i am noon. and. i know. choose

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