here in japan, it's a monday evening glad you request join us. carolina send its first premier to the city on sunday. he thanked search teamsened expressed condolences to those who died in the blasts. a 51st of explosions tore through a warehouse. officials say 112 people died.

190 others, many firefighters, remain unaccounted for. these visit come amid the growing protests of the deposit's handling of the visit. scores of people were outside a hotel. they are made up of families of firefighters and people that lost their homes. authorities aren't disclosing enough information they say. some criticize the state run television before stopping a live newscast when reporters asked tough questions the news agency says prosecutors have sent official to investigate criminal negligence in the broadcasts. indonesian search crews say they may have found the wreckage of the missing aircraft t. plane lost contact on sunday. 49 passenger, including five children and five crew members were on board. the inneegs rescue agency says the jakarta-based air service

flight 267 is likely to have crashed into the mountain. trons part authorities stay turboprop theft regional capital after jayapura shortly before 2:30 local time t. passenger jet was scheduled to arrive about 40 minutes later. but contact was rost shortly before 3:00 p.m. a it is aircraft flew over an area with 2,000 meter high mountains. searchers say they frowned u found don't that appears to be a part of the planeful local media reports say it was found over a 10 kilometer area where steep mountains are stretched out. they say the area was experiencing rain storms when the flight went missing. it says some witnesses saw the plane crash into the mountains. south korean and u.s. forces have begun annual joint military examiner stiesz begin heightened tensions on the peninsula.

30,000 u.s. troops are taking part, simulating a response to a forth korean attack. the exercises run through august 28th. north korea's national commission demanded they be cancelled. it threaten what is they call a massive military response if they go ahead. two soldiers were injured by forth korean landmines planted in the dmz. south korea retaliated with loud speaker broadcasts across the boarder criticizing the north. they have been trying to bring them out of a slump. they seen a new batch of figures that show the job could be harder than they thought. >> cabinet officer officials put out preliminary figures showing

the economy shrank through june. it's the first time this quarter the growth has gone backwards. the officials say gdp subtracted four months, that is a negative growth of 1.6%. leaders say the situation with japan's top trading partner is a big factor. >> i understand there are concerns about china. people are worried its economy may affect not only the domestic situation but the economic outlook for the entire world. we'll be looking closely at how the chinese government responds. >> reporter: government officials say there is another reason for japan's slowing momentum. people are enjoying both better job prospects an earning. retail sales were down 0.8% for the quarter. officials say the drop is due to higher prices for food and daily fess saysties.

car dealers have sold fewer vehicles for seven months straight. many blame increases in the consumption tax and light vehicle tax. they say that's had an impact on the mindset of japanese consumers. one expert says it's hard to say when things will get better. ? to be honest, the budget mindset is much more persistent that i expected. wages are up, but can we really convince people to loosen their purse strings when they tighten them so much? there are so many untern e certainty, it's difficult to predict what's going to happen next. >> people in japan have watched their lead go all out with fiscal stimulus and monetary easing. consumers have consistently benefitted from lower oil price, too. analysts say weak spending show leaders need to try something new to drive consistent growth.

nhk world. >> thank you for updates. now, checking the market, investors were undeterred by weak gdp figures. mr. bought stocks helping to push the nikkei higher. it gained nearly half a percent. some market players had expected the economic da the to be worse and ended up being pleasantly surprised. they are relieved to see economy chinese economy is stabilizing. it set the yuan slightly higher. the shanghai composite closed 0. % higher. investors in hong kong were cautious the hang seng index stretched its losses ending the day down 0.7%. malaysian shares continue to fall.

time for a quick look at our global economicalen dar for this week. -- economic calendar for this week. official at china's national bureau of statistics will release few home prices. on wednesday, japan's finance ministry will release trade data for july. we will also have july u.s. consumer price index and we'll have the minutes of the u.s. federal reserve policy meeting held last month. market players are focused on when to expect a hike in the fed key interest rate. now, every monday, we invite specialists to discuss events of the week. in this edition of expert view, we speak with a senior market economist at the bank of toke you sj. he is focusing on the fed minutes. >> the fed minutes denote how many members want to increase rates as high as possible.

on the other hand, how many people -- now, the pebs are deeply divided. so we are much invested in how divided it is fitting in that group. however, important issues of the normal environment, we had to see the increase of the dollar, so a firm dollar will jeopardize the u.s. economy. we want to know how members assist those increments of the stronger dollar. >> he says the fed is also keeping a close eye on inflation. he says board members may be getting recalled to raise the interest rates. >> if we're going to see two conditions to move the rate hike. one is that the rate on markets improving and secondly that

inflation rate. regarding the labor market environment, it is possible for us to say that the conditions almost achieved. the second condition inflation rate, in condition is very difficult to be judged because our latest inflation rate is only 0.3 rate. very low inflation is mainly coming from oil prices. if oil prices start rising, we have the implement rates so that we will be able to move to a rate hike. it is very difficult to rule out the possibility of the rate hike. because many participating members think that two rate hikes by the end of the year is needed. however, i think that october will be a likely to move the

possible rate hikes. president we have enough profit da to to move. so september we will note that. >> that was senior market exist at the bank of tokyo mitsubishi ufj. share hoold holders have ended a bitter struggle for a japanese conglomerate. they put their support against the younger brother against his older brother t. shareholders gathered for an extraordinary meet income tokyo. they approved plans to consolidate the leadership of the vice chairman and second son. she promised to create a stable management structure, improve competent governance and provide more transparency. at the same time a former upper

house law maker became the firms first ever external director. executives say the position will insure personal feuds don't disrupt the business again. shareholders dumped the older son as vice chairman in january. he attended the meeting in tokyo but didn't comment on the decision. iraq lawmakers blame former prime minister nouri al-maliki for the second biggest city. they gave the group the momentum to expand across the wide area. members of a parliamentary committee say malachi chose officials who are incompetent

and corrupt. they say that prevented him from clearly understanding the threat pose be i the islamic state dproup t. report says malachi and other top officials should stand trial. it seems aimed at deflecting criticism that the government's campaign ago ens the militants is making little progress. officials for the syrian human rights group based if britain have disclosed a report they received from their sources if war torn syria. they say government forces conducted major airstrikes on sunday near damascus. they say more than 80 people reportedly were killed. the report says 250 people were wounded in bombardments on the marketplace. deposit forces were targeting a base of operations for anti-government militants. the document says troops loyal to president assad continue attacks on using barrel bombs. they are filled with shrapnel

and explosives. the government admitted they are short person fell for fights against factions. they say the assad administration will focus defense efforts on securing a quarter of syrian territory. people in nagasaki commemorated earlier there month the destruction caused by the atomic bomb on august th fine 45 t. attack killed tens of thousands of people. many more were left injured and suffering from radiation sick ness. 70 years later, memories of the tragedy are fading. one young woman is trying to keep them alive. >> reporter: a university student in tokyo spent five years listening to stories from atomic bomb survivors in nagasaki. she says it's her mission to become a storyteller who can

pass on these first-hand experiences to younger people. she had a traumatic encounter on her first visit to nag cake for a high school excursion she met this woman that lived through the bombing and went on to recount her experience. she was in a shelter when the bomb detonated over the city. louisiana year she had another opportunity to meet her. hannah felt certain she was on the right road. she said, wooer the last generation that can listen detectly to those who seen the atomic bomb. i felt strongly i needed to do something, maybe to become a

storyteller in the future. since then, she has visited nagasaki every summer to hear stories from survivors. but this year was different. she went on a tour of buildings that have been preserved as monuments to the atomic bombing. her first destination was the cathedral. there she met a local student who volunteers at a tour of the building relic. together they traced the scars of the bombing seven years ago. >> you can see the stone sculpture without its head, arms or fingers him they were all osplit rated instantly by the

bomb. >> kawsaki explained that many people died when the 50 ton structure compel on top of them. >> talking to her really inspires me. >> it's essential we pass this on. it's really important to actually to him to the site to learn. next, she has visited a me ter from ground zero. here, about 1,500 students and teachers last their lives. the blast spread large cracks through the walls and inciner e incinerated the interior. i had a thought that day, she was a 7-year-old student when

the bombing occurred. she was one of the several people there that survived the explosion. >> flames up to 5,000 degrees celsius blasted through the window and left them charred like this. >> they had the remarks and contemplated what went on in the second after the explosion. >> it's clear atomic bomb survivors won't be able to tell their stories much longer. i want the next generation to know what really happened and to understand the history and its significance. young people can really do that. >> i feel our generation has a responsibility to pass design. it was really worthwhile to see these buildings. i want to learn more, especially about the history behind it.

i want to become a better story-telle story-teller. >> each visit gives her greater confidence, being exposed to powerful historic symbols has renewed her determination to pursue her goal. nhk world, nagasaki. >>. >> university students have come up with ways to improve safety in the skies. they've presented their ideas at an international contest where a team from tokyo made the top 5. for from nhk world. >> reporter: the aim is to prevent collisions with birds that pose a real threat to aircraft safety. their idea is to use drones to

ward off birds flying too close to the runway, leading them to safe haven they call bird ports. the team leader began the project last year with the other four team members. >> using drones, our aim is to create skies that are safe and friendly, humans and birds alike. >> but an unexpected problem arose if their computer simulations. no matter how many times they tried, the birds escaped above and below the line of drones. is there a collusion? it took them months to come up with one. the blue dots represent drones, using 30 of them flying in a specific formation, they were able to chorale a flock of 100 birds without losing a single

one. >> i don't think any research has been done anywhere in the world into using drones to move birds. at first the results weren't what we expected. >> the final competition took place in germany. each team had 20 minutes to present their idea. one of the other teams is based in the netherlands. >> because we don't like it, but what we can do is the makers of these vibration there is a positive way. >> reporter: their idea is to take advantage of the vibration and flex in aircraft wings to generate power during flight. a team from china presents a way to use motion sensing technology to guide aircraft when taxiing at airports. finally the turn of the tokyo

team. >> a mechanic asked me, do you know about body strikes? >> the secret lies in the formation used by the drones, fired in the shape of a rec ball. >> we have the solution. thank you very much. >> afterwards, the results are announced. >> the winner of the fly your ideas 2015 is -- team mozicon. [ cheers ] >> i thought any of the teams could have won. so i agreed with the results. >> at present, the use of drones at airports is closely

regulated. even so, the organizers were highly impressed by the tokyo team's idea. >> i think it's cost a lot for the airlines. it costs a lot in the disruption of the operations, so if approaching it this way as i've never seen before. >> from university last to the heart of the aviation industry. the ideas flown here could become the technology of tomorrow. >> it's time now to look at weather with our meteorologist jonathan oh. jonathan, we have been deemed with wet weather in tokyo. i fear a tornado affected other parts of the area. what can you tell us? >> james, yeah, we are keeping an eye on what went through

during the afternoon hours. we had a reports of a possible tornado down towards the prefecture. we had a lot of instability in place through monday and in the process a stormed fired up. i wanted to show you video. you can see already here the damage that this took place in between the area. two tall trees were toppled and a storage container was blown away in the process. 12,000 houses were pout power as of 3:00 local time in the afternoon. self people were wounded, unfortunately, do you to the storm rolling through. one person had to be taken to the hospital. i wanted to give you a better look on the radar perspective on how this storm took place as we went through the around. notice here, we're located in tokyo right here. down further towards the south, you see these bands of red lines

rolli rolling through. the southwestern portions we see this line of storms rolling through, just enough rotation peeshlly to spark off a tornado. as you continue on throughout the day tuesday, a low pressure system is still moving along the sea of japan side and so we have warm air coming if from the south, cold air coming if from the north and higher up in the atmosphere, that instability is going to lead us to the potential for heavy rainfall and some storms as we go through tuesday for the areas. they're all going to see the possibly of rainfall to 150 millimeters as we go through tuesday evening. now that may be one story when it comes to weather if asia. we also have a couple typhoons. these storms got stronger through the weekend. one of these storms is a very strong typhoon and moving toward the west at the moment. looking and setting its sights towards the philipines after

already causing problems, which it did not need a typhoon to roll over that. that became an issue. as we continue on through the weekend, remember a couple weekends ago, we had one that ran over taiwan and caused problems. it locks very closely as we go into the weekend, meanwhile, further towards the east. it is also moving towards the west over the oceans for the moment but the islands may be dealing with some stronger storms and the squall system as we go into the week as well. so lots of moisture potential with beth of these systems and so for the moment staying away from land, and by the time we may be wet by the time the monsoonal sets up, we see the possibility before the actual potential arriving north of manila. taipei looking at wet weather as well.

chichijima will deal with dryer weather for the weekend. a quick look at the forecast for america. north america, specifically, we had instability in the deep south bringing rain and possibly some storms to look out for a. cold front, a powerful one will bring powerful severe weather from the upper to lower mid-west and central plains throughout monday. we hope you have a good day wherever you are. here is your outlook.

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