to "newsline". here are some of the stories we're following. they will recover the cover to remove radio active debris inside. the japanese government is changing bills legislation, but opposition members are vowing to

fight. and some drones are poplar in japan, but authorities see them as a new kind of headache. the operator of the plant is moving forward with plans to remove the cover of the reactor building. the parts to decommission the facility. it was directed at the number one reactor to prevent radio active material from dispersioning. tokyo electric power company plays to remove the cover in the radio active debris and it will remove the fuel stored inside. over over the course of a week they will spray chemicals, and this is going to prevent radio active dust from spreading. the process of removing the cover will take one year. they will increase the

moderation of the radiation levels during the procedure. a test showed that radio active materials did not scatter when parts of the mantle were discovered. they plan to start the process in july of last year and remove was the debris in 2013 and caused radio active dust to spread. officials at the watchdog say that it's important that they remain dialogue with the residence and other stake stakeholders. . there's a report released and it's based on a finding by a team of experts that visited japan in pri. the situation at the site is complex, and that challenges remain. it offers advice and the possible discharge of the radio active water into the ocean. criticism has been mounting to

disclose that water from the roof top and the reactor was spill sbooging into the sea. the report was likely of the officials at the headquarters and workers at the plant. it has greater efforts to provide properly. the government is pushing bills in the legislation of the current session of the diet. leaders want to expand the role and allow the country to exercise the self-defense but the lawmakers are pledging a fight. prime men administerinister approved the bills. >> >>. >> translator: the most important duty is protecting the lives and happiness. we need the legislation.

i want to explain this necessity as much as i can. >> the proposed legislation is comprised of two bills and one is a new permanent law to pro proprovidepro proprovide support. members of the ruling democratic party and the coalition party says that they're working to extend and the opposition groups are calling for a full debate. the party and other parties have criticized the government to ten existing laws in one bill. they say that the move is one sign that it does not pay due president o the diet. >> translator: we will respond because there are a lot of problems with the bills. my party will coordinate to deepen the debate. >> the ruling party proposed the

starting as of next thursday but the opposition is refusing the request. the u.s. marine corp. is preparing the first on island defense and operations. it's invited more than a hundred commanders from across the region including japan. the five day event starts on sunday in hawaii. representatives from the philippines and veet ma'am will be there. taiwan will take part but china will not. they will practice using maps. they will also observe u.s. forces making a landing. a u.s. marine official told us that it's the first to enhance the landing in the region. the official expressed hope for

the stronger cooperation for the nations. observers say that the event could be i am ed at keeping china in check. u.s. president bah ram obama has won support for the gulf nations to reach iran. iran hosted a summit at camp david outside of washington. obama gave them an update on continuing talks with iran. he offered to strengthen the security through the region as a missile defense syem. >> we agree that a comprehensive verifiable region that fully addresses the international concerns on the program is in the security interest of the international community including the gcc partners. >> obama say that is the u.s. does not want a long term

confrontation. he said that he would like fit to play a role in the region. iran has passed adeal on the nuclear program. members of the house gave overwhelming support to the legislation on thursday. the senate passed it last week and they're expected to sientgn it into law. it's 30 days while congress reviews the deal. lawmakers could pass separate legislation if they disapprove of the deal. obama could veto such a bill and congress would need a two third majority to veto it. they're trying to financialize it by june but other propose it

and say that it's risky. an audio recording was made by the leader of isis. the group released the message on thursday and to reports that he was wonded. the recording is 33 minutes long. he calls on muslims to move to an area where they are or take up weapons where they are. they lan ched air raids against insurgent insurgent. the last time that the group released an audio recording, was in november. a british newspaper reported that he was seriously wounded in an air strike in march and unable to lead. the group is trying to counter speculation that the loss of the

senior leaders have made it weaker. not the japan governor was able to see a land change. here is gene from the business desk. >> they say what goes up must go down. a sharp global plunge in oil prices was the factor to hit a two percent inflation target. the officials launched massive measures in april 2013 to reach the goal because the target has not been met. >> he looked at the past two years and said that the slow growth and experts to a lower yen was beyond the expectations and that the tax was weaker than

he thought. >> translator: crude oil prices dropped 60 percent in six months. i would note it as the most unexpected event. as a result the inflation rate has fallen to 0 percent to one and a half percent. >> but he insisted that the big picture is in line with what he saw from the outset. he said that monitoring easing has changed the negative mind set that took root under deflation. the first decline in more than two years. the bank of japan officials say that it dropped 2.1 percent in april. the last time that the index fell was in march of 2013. they contribute it to the tax hike about a year ago. the officials say that crude prices bottomed out in january.

the impact of the lower cost is continuing. they say that the prices of goods will pick up. the weaker yen and cost of materials are casting a personal spending in japan. it shows that it worsened in april for the first time in five months. the consumer confidence index stood at 41 and a half and that's down 2.12 from the previous months. it's based on a kav yet of 8,400. they blame the prices of dare products and other food. they have maintained the assessment that consumer confidence is picking up. checking the stocks they closed higher and the average was 0.8 percent and for the week the index road 1.8 percent on the strong corporate earnings. many invest or thes gain -- and

the u.s. economic data has been weak. moving on to the markets the shanghai dropped and closes at 44308. there's a gain for the week and similar long measures. hong kong expanded gains to two percent. that's the biggest one day gain and invest tors cheered the plan to speed up development of the countries networks. in other markets in the asia pacific region the pse index and there we have it and gaining by six tenths and the day after the central bank said that it would keep the key interest on range. malaysia closed up and the first

grew 5.6 percent. investors waiting for signs in a turn around in china and have been disappointed. trade figures have been weak and car sales decline for the first time in more than two years and investment growth is at it's lowest level in almost 15 years. officials at the people's bank of china cut to stimulate the economy. both the one year lending rate and the one year depoise sit rate was lored by a percentage. some analyst say that the 2015 growth target is looking more unlikely. we spoke with the sbek tif research in hong kong and he says that officials are not finished with cutting rates. >> well, last time when i came to the show and forecasted this the sooner or later have the

rate cut within the second quarter, so it happened. i do forecast that the next round of easy and policy will be another cut under the reserve requirement and another cultt on triple r. seven percent and even around 7 percent is not easy as i said last time. it's achievable and around seven percent and definitely it can grow for the second quarter and maybe lower than the first quarter. >> since you're expecting further rate cuts will these cuts lead to stronger data and to a stronger economy? >> well nothings safe or guaranteed. the pblc has to do so. as we all know just look at the data from last week to up to now. cpi is worse than expected and expert data was just totally

disaster. why? because they appreciate over a lot of agencies and the european dollar. it just happens outside and doing very bad especially in europe so the strong is giving a pretty de lima. if it depreciates too much it that may affect the problem. it maybe too strong and hurt the export so what i believe is easing monitoring policies and it's the only thing that it can do. so another rate cut and then another one followed and that's basically not asked. >> and they have turned to easing when they needed to prop up the economy. some say that they should allow it to get the local government funds and that's easing.

how likely is this scenario? >> it will happen. the municipal bond is the biggest in the economy. they have to do something like clot collateral or buy in to help the government. this one thing that they need to do at this moment is not wait until the problem getting bigger. so i think a confessional monetary policy and physical policy is introduced very soon. not of just lower interest rate or lower the triple. that's not the only thing they need to do. like seven percent and like i said around seven percent of the growth is definitely -- is not easy to achieve, so in confessional and monetary policy like collateral and also we will be introduced to boost the

market and also give more room to like hike the saving rates for the local banks. japanese lawmakers have put the staff of approval on among going la. it's the fifth and it's expected to take affect within several months after the officials wrap up the details. they voltted in favor of the agreement, and it includes rules to ensure that there's supplies with the rare earth and other minerals. japan will embellish such as coats and sweaters and they're expected to make 92 percent frad between the two countries. companies in japan that force the employees to put in grueling over time will soon face the risk of public

embarrassment. they will make a list of those that violate work rules. >> translator: the policy tries to stop the illegal practices including the violators. >> they will release the names of large companies if three or more of the offices receive advisories to correct legal practices in the space of a year. the practice includes and imposing 100 hours or more over time in a month. they have to notify around japan for the new policy. that's it for business news. i will leave you with the

markets. drones have created term oil here in japan. a man has been indicted in a resent incident. nhk has the details. >> japanese officials gather in tox owe. >> translator: we just respond to the threats and establish strong security and meet public expectations. a man was arrested on suspension of driving a drone on the roof of the officer last month. he say that is he had meant to

land the aircraft in the court yard, but he gave up as darkness fell. 40-year-old admitted to putting radio active in the drone. he was testing the power policy. he collected the sand in the restricted zone near the nuclear plant. on thursday 15-year-old boy tried to fly a drone near a building. police warned him not to fly it since it could harm pe decemberople. he is believed to have flown the drone during an event on saturday. the device went down in the middle of a procession as worshippers went on. no one was injured. in national police agency

instructed officers to enhance the facilities and nuclear power plants and airports. the agency is also studying ways to intercept drones and using special equipment that's in use in some countries. lawmakers are also scrambling to enact the legislation and current laws do not restrict the legislation. the main democratic party has drafted a bill that imposes a bill and stops people from flying drones without permission. the facilities include a diet building and office and spring court, palace and embassy. violators could face prison terms up to one year or fines up to $4,000. police and other authorities would be allowed to order people flying drones within 300 meters in a restricted area to move

away. disobeying the orders could get prison term up to four year of a fine up to $4,000. they will seek to support the party in the act of the legislation during the current session. >> reporter: drones can be a useful tool, but these incidents have raised question of the down sides of drone and the measures that could be required to control them. brandon with nhk tokyo. >> thank you for that report. it was a sunny and hazy day here. here with more on the weather is sayaka. >> i cannot believe that it's may. over the past couple of days the temperatures are extremely high. the mercury hit nearly 28

degrees today and some saw over 30 degrees, and making it the hottest day so far this year. warm weather will continue for the next couple of days in tokyo and rainy day on monday. so spring weather should come back next week. now naha sun nir weather for the next couple of day. skipping the raining season and the season rain band is affecting the south of china as well and we have report of 260 millimeters of rain and more rain is expected into the next couple of days and some of the rain is moving into central japan and tokyo. now, down to the south we have been watching a typhoon and it's impacting the islands and right now qualm is experiencing

systems. the center will likely intense and likely get very -- get a very strong system status within the next several hours and then move up to the north to the islands and they could be impacted by next tuesday. now the system will likely cause a strong wind gust that's going to have fallen trees and heavy rainfall of about 200 meters in the south of the islands. the sea levels could rise by about two meters on top of the seven meters expected so coastal flooding is going to be a high concern and flooding is expected into friday evening across the islands. now, let's go to europe. many things have been happening over europe this week. record high temperatures were set for spain, and also severe weather was reported in many

places like south of germany where one tornado was reported. we have a video to show you the damage done by a twister. the large tornado swept through and leaving homes damage. no injuries were reported and hail and heavy rains were reported. just a few days ago a f 3 tornado hit germany and injuries nine people and leaving over 100 homes damaged. the severe weather maker has slightly shift today the north and impacting the north of italy on the friday and going to the first part of saturday. there's a possibility of severe thunder stornls and wind and tornados. the mountains will be covered by heavy snow fall and temperatures are down to the 20

degree mark on your friday. here is the extended forecast around the globe.

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