>> welcome to "newsline." leaders from israel and pal stin y palestinian militant group will lay down their arms for 72 hours starting tuesday at 8:00 a.m. local time. and they say the israeli government accepted, too. the egyptians proposed representatives of both sides meet in cairo to discuss a

long-term agreement to end the fighting. israel offenses launched a month ago saying they were trying to stop rocket attacks. 1800 people have been killed and nearly 10,000 wounded in the four weeks of fighting. police in israel say a man rammed a bulldozer into a bus in jerusalem. they say one pedestrian was killed. the bus driver and several others were injured. they're calling it an act of terrorism. local media say the bulldozer ran over a pedestrian, then overturned the bus. police shot and killed the bulldozer driver. >> we're looking into the identity of the suspect. from what we know until now, the suspect is still being examined, obviously, after he was shot. police units worked very

quickly. >> israeli media say the man was >> u.s. secretary of state has defended an american spy program over and over. now, he's found israeli agents have used some of the same tactics on him. der spieger cites several sources from intelligence circles. it says the israeli and at least one other intelligen listened in on cal kerry and top middle officials last year. they were negotiating process between israel and palestine. kerry reportedly made calls on encrypted equipment but sometimes used normal phones when traveling. the magazine says israel used information obtained through this spying in diplomatic negotiations.

tens of thousands of people have fled their homes in northern iraq after sunni militants captured two towns on sunday. local media say the forces also seized the country's biggest dam and an oil field after driving out kurdish troops. residents who escaped say the militants demanded that they convert to islam or face death. the united nations says up to 200,000 people have been forced to flee. kurds running an autonomous region in the north deployed troops in july to protect the sites. the fighters are known to be organized and powerful. this was their first major defeat by the militants. in june, the sunni forces seized iraq's second largest city of mosul. they've since been expanding their territory. iraqi government troops are fighting back with the help of u.s. military advisers.

say they'll say in the last year, they responded to three times the number of cases they did ten years ago: and that i mean see more problems in big cities including osaka and tokyo. these days, parents have less interaction with their neighbors and have few people to ask for help. scientists are warning of

ecological damage to japan's fresh water lake. the ecosystem is disappearing. the lake in western japan is a source of drinking water for the densely populated region. residents and politicians are conscious about preserving it. scientists from japanese and taiwanese universities have been looking at data collected by local researchers since 19d 78. they found that some types of phytoplankton have disappeared in 1988 and have not returned. it may have been due to a long term rise of water temperatures due to global warning. the absence is rapidly disrupting the ecosystem. >> we suspect similar times of species reduction may also occur in other lakes in other countries. >> they plan to study how the change is affecting other creatures.

ahead of memorial service, we'll look at people in these cities and how they're keeping memories and the campaigns for a nuclear-free world alive. one survivor in hiroshima has been making documentary films about what was lost in the bombings and how lives were forever changed. nhk world has the story. >> reporter:

>> reporter: masaaki tanabe visits a man who lost his in the atomic bomb the man is one of more people h the past 17 years. all lived near. >> translator: what hardest thing you experien after the atomic bombing? >> translator: i was passed around to live with various relatives, and school carrying their babies o my back. >> reporter: in his five documentary films, tanabe ha used como re-create deta central hirosh blast. the scenes are based on survivors' accounts. tanabe started making his films after turning 60. he had the urge to tell future generations about what the bomb took away in an instant from the lives of the city's residents. >> translator: i re-created the old cityscape as a memorial, a monument, a commemoration to those who lost their lives. >> reporter: tanabe was born and brought up in the house next to what is now called the atomic bomb dome. he was 8 when the bomb was dropped. his parents and his 1-year-old

brother were killed. he and his grandmother had earlier been evacuated f city and survived. two days after the bombing, tanabe returned to the spot where his house had stood. he saw human body parts completely burned and scattered among smoldering debris. >> translator: i was beyond sadness, and i was afraid. i mean, there was nothing, nothing left of my once warm and friendly neighborhood. >> reporter: tanabe finds it very painful to recall the bombing. in the digital re-creation of his own home, his parents and little brother are nowhere to be seen. but in the new film he's working on, tanabe has decided to include sketches of the people he personally saw and heard shortly after the >> translator: a sucking milk from the breast of his dead mother.

the mother's neck was broken. the important thing is to tell what happened to the people there. if we don't do that, people around the world won't understand the reality, the true impact of the atom. >> reporter: tanabe also wants to show just how the bomb shattered the lives of the survivors. he visits a childhood friend who is like a little brother to him. toshio nakamori is two years younger than tanabe. just like tanabe, nakamori lost

his parents and younger brother to the atomic bomb. nakamori changed jobs frequently after finishing junior high school. ever since his grandmother passed away, he has led the life of solitude. >> translator: isn't there anything you enjoy these days? >> translator: no, it doesn't seem so. >> reporter: tanabe struggled over whether to publicize details of the life of someone so close to him, but he decided to explain nakamori's plight to show how the bomb has destroyed people's lives. >> translator: after being orphaned as a child, nakamori

became an adult atomic bomb orphan. after the bombing, he never knew happiness or experienced the love of a family or anything like that. there are lives like that here in hiroshima, and they were caused by the atomic bomb. this is a fact that must be told. >> reporter: tanabe thinks that his mother and little brother died here where their kitchen once stood. tanabe wants people around the world to understand what the atomic bombing has tak from the lives of or people. chie yamagishi, nhk world, hiroshima. >> tanabe will complete his new film ahead of the 70th

anniversary of the bombing. he hopes to show it to people from around the in new yor to the review conference of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty. two japanese cities. two atomic bombings that changed history. tens of thousands of people died in an instant in august 1945. survivors were left suffering in the ruins. "newsline" will show you how experiences join us for r "rem nagasaki" starting mon august 4th. engineers at fukushima daiichi are struggling to contain the flow of contaminated water into the site. they've undertaken an ambitious plan to deal with the problem. they're construc

ice wall. nhk world's yoichiro tateiwa traveled to the crippled nuclear plant for a firsthan. >> reporter: this time inside fukushima daiichi since the nuclear accident. before getting any closer to the radioactive site, we make an important stop. i'm given a full suit of protective gear to wear. contaminated water problem is still the main issue here in fukushima daiichi. and now we're going to go out and see what's right now happening and what it is the tepco engineers are doing. next, tepco officials take me to the construction site where workers are trying out a new way to deal with the contaminated water. it is right next to the reactor buildings, and these heavy machines lined up have an important job to do. they're being used to insert these pipes, and they will reach 30 meters deep under the soil.

>> between these two pipelines, there's going to be one here so that each pipe has o distance. and altogether 1.5 kilometers, which is 1,500 pipes, are going to be inserted to the soil. >> reporter: the stretch of pipes will surround the reactor buildings and coolant will be injected to create a huge ice wall. the ice is expected to block the groundwater from seeping into the buildings. i then come across something unexpected. it's a group of workers who are

conducting an assessment. they say they're checking the location of underground obstacles. they explain there's a complex network of trenches and tubes beneath the plant. they say the ice wall pipes will cross over in 170 spots. experts fear the crossing will interfere with the freezing process, and they worr could form, allowing contaminated water to seep in. the size and scope of this project is unprecedented, and workers here tell me they cannot anticipate the outcome. >> translator: there are various facilities underground, and we have difficulty checking and adapting to them. but i believe we can make it through the problems with the cooperation of tepco.

>> reporter: combatting the contaminated water has a history of setbacks. tepco officials take me to the other key facility. it's called a.l.p.s. or advanced liquid processing system. engineers are using the system to remove radioactive substances. but the system frequently stops working. i asked the manager to explain why. >> translator: high radiation damaged the teflon-made packing. we didn't know that radiation had such an effect on the device. there are many things we don't know. it's the first time that we are using this type of machine. >> reporter: engineers are determined to draw on their past experiences. they take me to the construction site for two more a.l.p.s. there's still a long road ahead. as one manager here tells me, the trial and error continues. he just hopes it won't be for much longer. yoichiro tateiwa, nhk world, fukushima daiichi.

scientists are warning of ecological damage to japan's largest freshwater lake. they say microscopic plants are disappearing. the lake in western japan is a source of drinking water for the densely popu regions. many are conscious about preserving it. nearly 900 people have died of e-bola. guinea, liberia and sierra leone are suffering the worst from the ebola outbreak. the nigerian government said on monday a doctor who treated an ebola-infected patient was confirmed to be infected with the virus.

a crowded ferry has capsized on a river in bangladesh lea at least t more than 200 missing. the ferry sank on the padma river on monday. it was crossing the major waterway and heading to a suburb of the capital dhaka. local media say at least 250 people were on board. they say 44 managed to ashore or were rescued. divers are searching for the missing. investigators still don't know the cause of the accident. the river current was as strong when the ferry capsized. the media say the vessel was crowded with people returning from their hometowns during a holiday to mark the end of ramadan. dozens of people die in ferry accidents every year in bangladesh, where boats are a common form of transportation. overcrowding is often blamed for the accidents. a magnitude 6.5 quake hit ludian county in southwestern

workers in beijing are driving a booming economy, but migrants who come in from the countryside are not reaping the benefits. they're paid less than other laborers and live in a gray zone. we visited with members of one family struggling to get their share. >> reporter: this is one of beijing's official undeveloped districts. it's a city's largest shantytown. an influx of workers from the countryside has boosted the operations of 20,000 to some 50,000. migrant workers crowd side by side into illegally built cheap housing. the government turns mostly a blind eye. this woman runs a small tailoring business here.

she comes from a poor farming village. she left her hometown 17 years ago at age 15. she has moved three times. she switched jobs between ab electronic equipment factory and learned dress making school. it helps her family get by. she sews and repairs clothes for neighbors. some are migrant workers like herself. her husband tried two times to run restaurants, but both businesses failed. he has found work as a cook at a hospital canteen and on a night shift at the supermarket. >> translator: things have gotten better compared to when we first came here, but life is still tough. >> reporter: china's work force

includes some 160 million migrant laborers from outlying regions. they are at construction sites, shops and restaurants working. many such workers have only temporary permits to be here. under china's family registration system, people from rural areas are generally restricted from moving to cities to live. so they are not eligible for social security and other benefits. the couple has high hopes for their only son. he's a fourth grader, and he's dog well at school. his parents think, if he can gain entry to a college in beijing and find a decent job at a company, he can escape the poverty around them. they spend one-third of th

father's income to school. he takes t including math. but they worry about his performance in some studies. if he fails to get into a good middle and high school, it will be difficult for him to enter college in beijing. >> today is sunday. ann and ken -- >> reporter: adding to the challenge is he must return to take university entrance exams where the family registrations are. and for rural candidates, the passing score is higher than in the city. >> translator: we don't want our child to lead the life of a migrant worker. we want him to have a secure life, which has been impossible for us. >> china's economic growth may have come quickly, but for many families economic security could take generations to achieve. the couple who live in hope for a better future for their son say for the time being, this is the only place they can make a living. populous, prosperous, pushing ahead.

china's rise brought it wealth, power, and problems. an income gap divide its people. pollution threatens their health. differences over territory strain relations with ne find out the challenges china faces on "newsline." >> again, as i mentioned, that typhoon is surging due to that anticloc. so more heavy rain, i'm afraid.

i must tell you that will be coming in which will be, of course, heightening the risk of flooding but more of the mud slides because the ground is very l the amounts of the rainfall will be up to about 250 millimeters of rainfall in the areas that have already received about a meter. so that's certainly going to be heightened in the risk for further disasters. about 150 mill meeters across the state. as you can see the typhoon pulling in in central locations of japan in the next 72 hours will be affected with huge amounts of rainfall and very stormy conditions. this is a typhoon that we're tracking and pulling a lot of that southwestern flow into the philippines. so the surrounding countries are also being affected from this typhoo it's a very strong status now and it looks like it will be moving very slowly. slow movement will cause further accumulation of rainfall and is in the range of 250 kilometers

per hour. the rain will be accumulating in hong kong we're seeing about 120 millimeters in the past 24 hours. across china, any additional rainfall could trigger flooding and landslides. toex owe, 36 degrees, that's the hottest day this summer. now, across the pacific, moving towards hawaii, it's a great destination. it looks like you're going to be seeing that very stormy conditions likely in the next few days. spes leshlly?

around the big island on thursday. do watch for the very rusty conditions. this is a category four hurricane. the good news that i can give you is it's going to be weakening. as you can see, another storm is chasing after that. so chasing after it is another system called julio, which is a tropical storm site as of now, but it could become a hurricane over the warm wate we'll keep a very big, close eye on this. another system to talk about. well, it is the hurricane season. and i must tell you, there's another hurricane here across the eastern coast. bertha is its name. but the good news i can give you, it's pulling offshore. it's going to be pulling towards the sea. but you may see some showers and thunderstorms across florida and the eastern coast. i'll lev you now for extended forecast.

and that's all for this

edition of "newsline." edition of "newsline." i'm catherine kobyoshi in tokyo. steves: for a more lively way to enjoy paris and cap an exciting day, steve and i have hired a car and a driver for a blitz of the city's best nighttime views. and this isn't just any car and driver. this company employs a fleet of historic deux chevaux cars, and they're driven by local students. man: the different districts are like a snail, going around the island, the city. steves: the french raise flood lighting to an art form. and with a city as beautiful as paris, it's no wonder.

les invalides, with its golden dome marking napoleon's tomb, is magnifique. the naughty blades of the moulin rouge keep turning, and its red lights tempt lost souls in pigalle. just to be out and about at this hour, the energy of the city is palpable. notre dame is particularly stately after dark. sightseeing boats enliven the river and its sparkling bridges. the pyramid at the louvre glows from within. and the eiffel tower provides a fitting finale for this victory lap through the city of light.

>> "euromaxx highlights" and here is your host. >> hello and welcome to "euromaxx highlights." let's have a look at our favorite reports of the week. it took more than two years to develop the official 2014 world cup ball. euromaxx checks out a new tourist attraction in wales. italians celebrate a huge summer party along the adriatic coast . germany's national soccer coach sepp herberger made the following observation about the beautiful game 60 years ago -- the ball is round and the game lasts 90 minutes. not much has changed except today a good soccer ball has to be so much more than just round. for the world cup, it's designed with good aerodynamics and style in mind.