world news line and you know tommy and tokyo. here's a look at some other stories we're following this hour the leaders of japan and the us and men in tokyo president obama has reaffirmed the security has been on that one the authorities in south korea are stepping up their investigations into what caused that they are using last week. and the un security council the hearing allegations about following

the death tax theory japanese prime minister shinzo army and us president barack obama have agreed that ties between their countries are unshakable obama touched on a delicate issue on territories he said for the first time at the japan u s security treaty covers sing to the islands in the east china sea. japan controls the aisle as china and taiwan claimed them. porter's of our strength. in the foundation of the region's security and economic progress is our historic treaty alliances including with japan. and let me reiterate that our treaty commitment to japan security is absolute. article five covers all territories under japan's administration including this a couple hours. it's a notre dame don't think all in all the cooking time around china we agreed that we clearly opposed changing the status quo by force and we confirmed

and in the united states will continue to collaborate closely and our policies on dealing with china. the two leaders also discussed the trans pacific partnership free trade agreement. but they didn't reach a conclusion. i've been very clear. an honest that american manufacturers and farmers need to have meaningful access to markets that are included on the cpp including here in japan that's my bottom one and i can't accept it last. so now's the time for. bold steps. i hope that president obama and i have instructed the two ministers to sell the outstanding issues and can include the overall ppp negotiations as soon as possible. the leaders also talk about the situation in north korea. our two nations are united. along with the republicans of korea. in our determination to bring about peaceful

denuclearization of the korean peninsula and in our firm response to north korea's provocations. and we stand with japan is six rows all the tragedy of harper is abductions of japanese citizens. a reporter asked ave about his visit in december to yesterday shrine that honors japan's war dead dad knows remember to include leaders convicted of war crimes after world war two. i'm not into my hole seventy years ago. when the second world war ended we recognize that japan had caused tremendous damage and suffering for many people especially those in asia all i trapped and in the last seventy years and we've been taking the path toward a peaceful nation. denotes as state and as a people i knew must be thrown out on it when daddy and opened in the mall i must. chavez said he will keep trying to explain his

views. senior officials of japan and the us in charge of the trans pacific partnership free trade talks have met again. that's after the summit meeting failed to find common ground but the top japanese negotiator says they still have pending issues before they can strike a deal. japan's economic model as a minister acted on by the end to u s trade representative michael from and talk for two hours in me to make some headway before president obama leaves tokyo on friday morning. ahmadi told reporters after their negotiations that they remain divided on critical issues jc route there were some progress. there are still some outstanding issues. we have decided that we will continue with the talks. um i said the two countries will go on with the discussions of the working level the conditions remain divided especially on pork and autos. four for the us side is demanding a tariff reduction that is much larger

than i had expected. the us is also seeking an export quota for vehicles if they meet the safety and environmental standards to be producing country the japanese side with has rejected the request saying it is a matter of sovereignty ahmadi said he will consider meeting from him again depending on the development of the working level negotiations. officials in beijing and taipei swiftly reacted to obama this remark on the sand cuckoo islands they reiterated their claim over the territory. some call it used to execute each with its quota of the cooled. and if allah not to harm which has tutorials sovereignty taiwan's foreign ministry spokesperson says obama for mark refers only to the administration of the time and not territorial rights. just you and allah says that all parties involved should shelve their

disputes and to seek a peaceful solution to the issue through dialogue obama will visit seoul on friday south korea is the second stop after japan of his four nation tour of asia. he will hold a summit meeting with his counterpart present pop quintet and will discuss nuclear issues involving north korea. in each year old world to marry kolkata reports from saul people living in seoul on the aisle where they are about to close at the idps the mood in the city is new tips ahead of prisons obama as physics. south koreans are still coming to terms with last week's deadly various things. she still did it again. the rap centered around the ferry accident. as for obama to complicate it was rush hour in a tent. it's very meaningful that he's coming at a time like this. i

also have some lovely link to all for opinions on what they think president obama should discuss with south korean prison clinic. i hope obama says it will help our country due to the north koreans from using nuclear technology. i helped the us will help keep us safe. this is obama although i hardly update on friday. thousands of police will be on duty to make sure nothing is fluff that is it this office as i was in force at the us embassy and out of the house. this will be obama's fault is it to south korea since he became us president. this is all start coming here since risen to power. well bob law though attend a welcome ceremony at the polluted tops. she and pop the whole of this comic on friday afternoon. i think

of a giant freaking people they have dinner and we believe as i expected to recall combinations of ideas they will also spend a fair amount of time talking about north korea. red's injury and consistently complained about the ideal of military drills by the us and south korea. no crean's have developed their missives program in response they're also pushing ahead with their nuclear program and they asked to attend to carry out their full nuclear tests at any time. they say the mas visit to a shared use of the actual money and dangerous one. that will escalate confrontation and remove the lines of a nuclear arms race to hand over his

unstable region the ma and pop will discuss strategies for containing north korea the president is trying to sell. i've been a year. that is serious about in passing the us ball in the breeze it not that big is the month that they face. i got caught up in a stairwell and soul mm police in afghanistan say a security guard has opened fire at a hospital in kabul tried to gouge in a bangkok as the story. the city so far killed at least three americans. no one has claimed responsibility. attacks by militants had been on the rise in interest and as a presidential election was held earlier this month. she carried on thursday in the national hospital founded by a us christian charity in the west of the afghan

capital. an interior ministry official said at least three americans including a doctor were killed a woman was injured. the gunmen was reportedly a member of the afghan police protection force yet been assigned to guard the hospital. i suppose since the election held on eight of fifty choose a successor to present on the cardstock. the group has been intensifying its violence. other taxing recent weeks have targeted foreign nationals. and david for the pullout police officer shot to associate press journalists working in the country's east the photographer was killed and her order one. that has marked the first anniversary on thursday of the garment factory class that killed more than eleven hundred people. what occurs and relatives of those who died held a demonstration at the site on the outskirts of the capital dhaka. they see many factories are still on

say. each story commercial building crumbled to the ground on a full twenty fourth last year. if the tree had a little stand the accident highlighted the poor and weak conditions in bongo dance co workers seeking often takes the banks . the protesters on thursday's rally demanding action to prove cheaper in foreign banks. exports. it's not. it's not made that does not meet safety standards as most owners of pre already on reducing costs. carroll county's sat around the world milk to suppliers and bonded as to make inexpensive projects. last year's disaster expose the real cost of cheap outsourcing. though investigators blamed the legal construction or safety standards. nhk world are being conned re examines

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the world. investigators in south korea are looking into more firms as they try to find out what was behind the disaster at sea. they want to determine what caused the fairies their wool to sink last week with hundreds of people on board investigators raided an organization in charge of safety inspections and affirm them loaded the fairies cargo they'd already raided the company that operated the ship the stairwell was caring for that seventy six people including more than three hundred high school students on a field trip the ship needs some sharp turns started listing then sank one hundred seventy five people have been confirmed as one of the twenty seven remain unaccounted for police arrested the captain last week and several other members of the crew they believe the junior crew member was in control of the ferry at the time of the accident. they say she was inexperienced and may have made a mistake in handling the ship investigators are trying to find out if the ferry was overloaded and if the cargo was properly secured. aclu's

cargo couldn't have made it hard for the ship to regain balance. international experts have been working to bring in syria of chemical weapons stockpile by the government now un security council members are looking into an agent that wasn't previously on their radar. chlorine gas. council members have heard allegations that the gas was used in attacks this month in the central syria. more than one hundred people in areas outside the city of hamas reportedly suffered choking coughing and other breathing problems representatives at present the kerala fed govt in to opposition forces have accused each other of exposing them to chlorine gas last year. syria's leaders admitted the details of their chemical arsenal to the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons. chlorine gas was not on the list. nigeria's ambassador to the un is the current security council present. his call for an

investigation. so the suspense good sign. thus i need a separate parts of the use of cloning tax. fear is ambassador bridge from safari has denied any involvement by government forces. this in government denies that it lead us all the victorian jazz by the student meal the security council resolution or chorus syria's government to dispose of its entire chemical arsenal by the end of june. experts have removed or destroyed it. in the ninety percent of the weapons. two palestinian factions say they're ready to hand the years of feuding and join forces. the leaders of fatah and hamas have reached a deal to form a unity government the representatives of the group announced the agreement in the gaza strip. they say they intend to create a government within

five weeks and the plan to hold parliamentary elections six months later after the earliest. ty is led by prism of what the boss and controls the west bank the islamic group hamas into power in gaza in two thousand and seven members of fatah and hamas split the need to see me here but you know how we're a dispute that actions have announced reconciliation deals in the past if they fail to implement them israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu criticized abbas were trying to mend ties with hamas. its leaders advocate armed conflict with israel netanyahu said abbas has to choose between peace with hamas for peace with israel. pro russian militants in eastern ukraine are demonstrating they're not bound by an international agreement and they're refusing to leave government buildings. foreign ministers from ukraine russia the us and european union agreed last week that militants would lay down their arms but the separatists are still

holed up inside government buildings and police stations in at least ten cities and towns. they're demanding more regional autonomy and other militants have kidnapped an american journalist simon of all stripes. he reports for advice news militants confirmed they had detained him. they said he was reporting false information express deep concern of the kidnapping of the u s citizen journalists kinds of ups downs. ukraine reportedly at the hands of pro russian separatist. officials of the state are from american russian leaders to use their influence to persuade the militants to leave the buildings. but the russians denying any involvement. they accuse the americans and the leaders of ukraine's interim government of failing to observe the beans. i do. and

engineers at japan's global nuclear plants have restarted their efforts to contain a growing problem. they're pumping of groundwater to stop it from collecting on the physician and anxiously the cruise we took electric power company began when they call a bypass operation early this month. their strategy is to pump the ground water so it doesn't flow into the plant and get contaminated. the hope to start releasing it into the ocean next month the engineers are using paul wells on a hillside to check the groundwater for contamination. they suspended their bypass operation last week because a radioactive substance in one of those wells exceeded the sci fi target measurements later showed the radiation had fallen so the engineers restarted their palms the water is going into tax workers say they'll check in for contamination there before they release it into the ocean. they say they may

stop pumping from any well where radiation rises the people in charge of the accretion of dai ichi have been looking into the latest problem with a water treatment system. they think it was another case of human error on tuesday workers suspended one of the three lines of the advanced liquid processing system. they found it was not reducing build up of calcium. managers with tesco seo involve used to inject a chemical agent had been closed. the workers open the valve on wednesday and restarted the system who last month may shut down the line to fix another problem managers say they may have forgotten to reopen the bow when they resumed operation the system is capable of removing almost all of nuclear materials from contaminated water workers have been testing it since last year and hope to put it into full operation before the end of this month. china is facing a storm of yellow dust our meteorologist

roberts but it has more rubber. the us who we are seeing out here is all this blowing sand in this move across much of northern china southern forces of mongolia as well mainly due to strong clear easy and satellite picture on just a racing across northern portions of the country and with that these gale force winds and of course that is kicking up the dust out of the gobi desert island will initially use video coming out of northwestern chinese year on year wednesday where a one of the strongest in storms and daggy hit the north western portions of china the store mom really does impact the residents out here making it difficult to breathe but also commuting in the area trains were disrupted by a storm visibility down to less than twenty meters and many many areas whether this is the issue of sandstorm point across much of northern china and also him. frost warnings of believe it or not because behind this cold front is kicking up all this dust we are seeing bitterly cold temperatures the wallabies show you that front. here are

just that priests a petition really and that's really dry off ports in or if you have is a really tight the greedy in sum these areas and that is keeping up that does here's the warning these areas in the red dots reducing visibility possibly down to about zero meters in some locations now all this is gonna continue to drift off geared towards easing by friday night very well could be impacting those of you into beijing as well see what i keep on guard for this topic you can make as far as the korean peninsula. or japan actually handsome fairly decent weather going into the weekend a few of the outdoor activities planned out. i'm going to enjoy the sunny skies above average chapters are going to be in the forecast out here not until next week. my monday or to see the forecast changed bus to come on china actually read now we have a storm system out there and that's bring some rain showers at the location some photography you can see is a component and a hundred and twenty millimeters the next twenty four hours alone and eventually asked to develop further and work its way off the court seized by next

monday last a good year temperatures all started off with cool of course know when your forecast. well i call their diving in from the north will catch us out of it but the difference in temperatures beijing at twenty four degrees there on your friday tokyo leading up to twenty two in taipei at twenty eight. about a big difference in temperatures are just that a cold fronts that are developing out here this is what's happening in the americas with a storm system pushing across the central plains. this has already brought some rough weather father towards the west is getting a new work its way and for these the lower mississippi river valley. that's where the threat areas there in a missouri arkansas all you can see the possibility of large hail damaging winds. even the threat of tornadoes that is there's been a relatively quiet tornado season thus far and this very well could the least add a few more onto the number that is already fairly well. they live as though it can continue work its way back off or is that he's behind it. another storm system by then the weekend one keep an eye in that one that can bring another severe weather event across much of central plains. basically by

saturday into sunday. air temperatures but our move over towards year for the quick talk about what's going on here. we have several year is the severe weather as well believe it or not. northern portions of the balkan peninsula some heavy rain showers that possibility pale. i think for the afternoon hours around the pyrenees. that's the severe weather hot spot during the year on year thursday and friday are really in northern spain southern france a very unstable and no theories in the red bass for you to see that risk of those damaging winds and even a lot here at us to hear what weather is forecast. ay ay ay ay ay ay ay ay ay ay ay. two. that's

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