llo, welcome to "newsline". i'm keiko kitagawa in tokyo. former greek prime minister alexis tsipras has declared victory in sunday's general election. he said it a great win granted by the greek people. >> translator: the greek voters

have given me a mandate to continue fighting for them. >> the counting has almost wrapped up. the ruling syriza party has won about 35%. the interior ministry said that would give syriza 145 seats in a 300-seat parliament. tsipras called for a snap election after facing criticism for accepting austerity measures in return for bailout from eurozone countries. the government is to receive financial aid of about $97 billion. some experts say tsipras may try to negotiate with germany to reduce the financial burden. tsipras has indicated that he will form a coalition government with a current partner and another conservative party as early as tuesday. iran has allowed the head of the iaea to visit a military

site suspected of acsite for nuclear weapons. they said their program is for peaceful purposes only. an iranian news report says iaea direct general amano toured work shops and nearby construction sites on sunday. he met with iranian leads including president hassan rouhani. last month iaea officials said work to expand the site to lea whether iran conducted test there's don't duct nucleararms. iran signe an aeement with six world pers in july. it stipulated economic sanctions against the country would not be lifted unless suspicions were addressed. on sunday japan's parliamentary

vice minister for foreign affairs called on iran to make steady efforts to impleamen the july agreement. he made the appeal during a meeting with the iranian former minister. the iranian side is believed to have expressed its strong resolve to implement the agreement. people in the middle east are taking risks to seek security but some are losing their lives. 13 people died in the aegean sea. a rubber dinky was on the way from turkey to greece with 46 people on board. 20 pennsylvania were rescued but 13 people died, including six children. the turkish coast guard is

searching for 13 others who remain missing. another boat sailing on the same route overturned on september 14th, killing 34 people. the international organization for migration estimates more than 2800 refugees and migrants have died this year during their journe across the mediterranean sea. the migrant crisis is dividing the european union. officials in some nations are trying to encouge the increasing number of refugees and migrants to move on to neighboring countries. more than 25,000 people mostly from the middle east have flocked to croatia from serbia after hungary closed its orderers. croatia officials moved migrants to the hungarian border. hungarian authorities criticized croatian authorities for the handling of the issue.

they are relocating new arrivals to the border with austria. 20,000 people entered austria this weekend alone. austrian police expressed their willingness on sunday to assist those heading for germany. interior ministers and top leaders of the eu are scheduled to meet later this week but unclear if they can find a solution. members of the islamic state group are posting videos online to discourage people from leaving syria and other areas to seek refuge in europe. one of them shows a man believed to be living in a community under the group's control. he says children will be influenced by misguided ideas if they go to europe. so it's safer to stay where they are. the man also says that europe is accepting refugees in an effort to destroy muslim countries. a professor of tokyo university of foreign studies is an expert on islamic state group. he says taxes are levied on

residents under the group's control and are the main source of revenue. he believes the group is trying to stem the outflow of people in order to keep those revenue streams in tact. meanwhile, concern is growing in europe that the militant group may be embedding members among the refugees to engage in acts of terrorism. fishermen in chilean city hit by a tsunami that struck after wednesday's earthquake are calling for t government to speed up its response. the 8.magnitude earthquake triggered a tsunami of more than four meters. the disaster killed 13 people and displaced more than 3600 others in the central region of coquimbo. the devastation was severe in the coastal city of coquimbo.

it damaged a key for for reason cruise ships rendering it inoperable. it also swept fishing boats onto land. >> translator: government officials haven't done anything for us. i want them to repair our fishing boats as soon as possible. >> local crews are trying to drain water from flooded boats. velasquez says he's seeking swift assistance for the area's 3,000 fishermen. this year marks 70 years since the end of world war ii. two men, one british one japanese were on opposite sides during the war. one was a p.o.w. forced to work on the death railway. the other was a soldier who supervised other prisoners. these elderly veterans have

chosen to replace the hatred formed in war with bonds of friendship. >> reporter: 95-year-old miko served in the imperial japanese army. he and his family were celebrating a planned trip to the uk. he was a railway engineer. after he was conscripted he was assigned to building the thailand-burma railway. in 2013 he appeared in a british documentary about the railway. the film portrays the harsh conditions along the 400.com route through dense jungle. the japanese used forced labor including prisoners of war. so many died, some refer to it as the death railway. many japanese declined to be interviewed but miko was brave enough to speak candidly about

the conditions the soldiers and p.o.w.s faced. he expressed his desire to visit the uk and meet with ex-p.o.w.s. sir harold atcherly also appeared in the film. impressed with miko's sincerity he decided to make thinks dream come tru >> tnslator: when i get to engrand i was to express my sorrow and share my sense of pain. >> how are you? so wonderful moment for both of us. 73 years ago i was about 23 and i think you are two years younge than i am.

>> reporter: sir harold said he saddened that so many p.o.w.s remained trapped in trauma and turmoil. he himself had toorget about the past in order to keep his life moving forward. but he recently decided to do something to soften the hatred of others. >> i do say that because there is this hatred around i wanted to do it. and to meet miko. as a representative of his country, because this is not just him and me, it's a very large number of human beings. >> reporter: sir harold

organized the reception at an exclusive london club for servicemen so that miko could meet other former prisoners as well. 70 people attended,ncluding world war world war ii veterans. some guests still have mixed feelings about japan because of their experience in the war. >> translator: when i imagine the cruel conditions the p.o.w.s experienced during the war i feel deeply saddened and my heart feels with wane. i sincerely hope that such sorrow would not be repeated ever again. [ applause ] >> reporter:ome of the former prisoners wanted to shake miko's hand. >> i've always said that how long do you go on hating?

do you go on hating until you're dead? certainly doesn't do anybody good. and i find the same with miko, we're completely together o that. >> reporter: miko left thrown with a renewed sense of mission. >> translator: not so many young people know about the war in japan. when i get home i want to tell people about it and the friendships i made with our rmer enemies. >> reporter: these two former foes can't quarterback their deep emotion through lancaster but their hands clasped in friendship say more than words ever could. japanese don't drink as much sake as they used to.

consumption slumpedo one-third of 40 years ago. wine and beer are the choice. brewers are fighting back focusing on highe quality and pulling out all stops to win new generation of customers. >> reporter: a hard day's work, finished with hard drink. in years past the drink was almost always sake and the drinkers almost always male. change is in the air. cheap liquor is out. quality sake is in. there's a wide variety in as this tokyo bar offers 50 different brands. the other change on the sake scene is the customers. many are young with a strong brigade of female sake fans. >> translator: it's sweet and light and easy to drink. it's different from my image of sake. delicious.

>> reporter: the all you can drink service is a big attraction, but that's not the only reason sake bars are taking off. the young generation is looking for quality. >> translator: most sake tastes lighter now. it used to be stickier and sweeter. before sake would get you drunk and make you sick. it's changed a lot. >> reporter: most brewie brewere made major changes. this is a 150-year-old brewery in northern japan. this is the eighth generation owner. a big factor behind the popularity is the production method. he decided to returno the traditional way using only rice, water and rice malt. a key difference between this

and other sake is the yeast he uses to ferment the ingredients. >> translator: the yeast we use was discovered here 85 years ago. it's the oldest strain still in use at sake breweries. >> reporter: he also uses wood barrels, a practice rarely seen these days. the barrels need to be cleaned all the time to prevent mold which can ruin the sake. i want adds up to a lot of work but the master brewer says it pays off. >> translator: taste is important but the story and culture behind how the sake is made is just as important for consumers. so we would rather have each bottle tasting different than going for mass production with a boring uniformed taste. >> cheers. >> reporter: another brand

that's winning new customers, some at the highest levels. u.s. president obama chose sake to toast japan's prime minister. he has chosen to return to the tritional way, another company has gone in the opposite direction. he reconstructed its brewery equipped it with data tracking and other modern technology. control room looks like a laboratory. staff here monitor the temperature and fermentation process for the whole production line and they keep detailed records. in the fermentation room the hi-tech approachllows the company to do away wh a master brewer. production is automated wherever possible. when human labor is required workers follow the manual. intuition has been replaced with scientific precision.

>> translator: it's more like working a factory than a sake brewery. we're expected to perform the same steps in the whole process assigned to us every day. >> reporter: the goal is mass production of high quality sake. to that end he controls the temperature of the whole building, allowing it to brew all year round. most breweries only make sake in the winter. >> translator: if the sake breweries stick to tradition and intuition, we're not going to see any development in the industry. we produce 1,000 bottles of the highest sake a year. other breweries only produce maybe 100 in one generation. using our vast experience, we've achieved a drastic leap forward in making sake and satisfying the expectations of consumers. >> reporter: higher quality and higher volume, sake brewers say they got a winning formula to

revive the fortunes of japan's tradition drink. old footage capturing the lives of vietnamese refugees has recently gone up on the internet. they fled their war-torn homend and started their new lives in a camp four decades ago. some are reflecting on their long journey. >> reporter: this is how life was in one of the largest refugee camps in the u.s. 40 years ago. camp pendleton in southern california hosted over 50,000 people. mainly from vietnam. andre filmed the camp in 1975. he was studying art in college. when he heard that the vietnam war was over, he borrowed a 16

millimeter camera and rushed to the camp. >> i wanted to capture and film all the refugees coming out so i decided to go to camp pendleton and bring tape and film and interview as much as possible all the refugees there. >> reporter: each tent held four families. people cooked in large communal kitchens. they made clothes on shared sewing machines. children played together. andre decided to put these images on youtube to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the end of the war. he hoped that his film might rerehome former refugees. and it did. for one, rick in houston, texas. >> that right there.

ght there. that's me. so that was kind of neat to see. i had to play like 20 or 30 times. >> rorter: rick was 7 years old. he remembers being at the camp was a relief after living "so long" in the chaos of war. rick's father had been a south vietnamese air force pilot. he eventually got a job working on a ranch in washington state. rick studied hard and became a dentist. he feels that his life in america has been successful. but the old images of the camp reminded him of something he always felt was missing. he contacted andre. >> so you were there on april 30th, still? >> we left right on the day

before it fell so we left on the 29th, the morning of the 29th. >> reporter: even after 40 years, for rick, in some ways vietnam is still his home. >> you not only lose a country, but, you know, you lose a part of yourself. i can't say that, you know, there's been regrets or anything like that. but sometimes when you think back, you know, you think like, you know, what could have been. >> reporter: so rick decided to go back to vietnam this summer to pick up pieces of himself that he felt he had left behind. he brought his three children with him to show them their roots. now andre is interviewing former refugees, asking where they were when saigon fell. he wants to add the interviews to the old footage to produce a

documentary. >> i want to have this so our children eventually can learn what happened that day. we could live in peace, could learn from that history so we can forgive and to live as a human being. >> reporter: once it's done andre plans to donate the documentary to a museum in san jose. sandra barren, nhk world, california. it's time now for the world weather with our meteorologist. we're enjoying cold weather here intokyo. will the nice weather continue for the rest of the week? >> the beautiful weather will likely continue for the rest of the holiday. there's a high pressure system in place for many parts of japan so nice weather will likely prevail, however heavy rain is falling across eastern portions

of hokkaido, about 17 millimeters of rain fell in just one hour heavy rain will likely continue into tonight. watch out for tornadoes and hail too but the unstable weather will go away by tomorrow and sunny weather will come back in sapporo and dry weather will continue in tokyo for next three days. rain is causing flooding in south china and in fact quizhou province was battered with rain, some areas had up to two meters of rain. another belt of heavy rain and snowfall across china and mongolia and provide rainfall in beijing on tuesday and snowfall for the higher elevations. now across the ocean there's a newly formed tropical depression for the west of the islands.

it will affect japan next week. temperatures are going to be as follows. 36 degrees in bangkok with a chance for heavy rain and thunderstorms. manila 31 degrees. seoul nice clear weather with a high of 29 degrees ontuesday. now acros north america, on friday at least eight tornadoes were reported in the midwest. that include hillsdale, kansas. weather has improved but a new syst is moving in providing a chance for tornadoes over the northern plains on tuesday. now weather has been quite wet across the desert southwest as well as southern california, so far this month. l.a. you experienced the wettest september day on record last week and more wet weather is expected for the next three days or so. there's a couple -- there's a tropical depression and also a couple of low pressure systems and these systems will likely

cause more heavyainfall and as many of you know, this area has been contending with drought over the past four years or so, the worst condition is happening over california where about 50% of the land is under exceptional drought. so they need rainfall but too much rain will certainly call the risk for flash flooding. temperatures are going to be extremely hot in l.a. 34 degrees for the high. chillier than average for the northwest. vancouver 18 trees with a low of 8 degrees. please bundle up at night. across europe unstable weather continues across the south of italy, balkan peninsula, watch for tornadoes as well as thunderstorms. this system will head towards turkey. new system is approaching the western continents so turning west to paris on tuesday but on monday nice weather will continue, we'll have 19 degrees in paris but quite chilly in london and 15 degrees for the high on monday.

that's it for now. here's your exteed forecast. oneore story we want to share with you. the 32-yeaold japanese conductor has narrowly missed winning theop prize at an international top competition in france. he was chosen as the public

favorite and orchestra favorite. sato reached the final round of the international competition for young conductors along with two other contestants. 20 conductors took part in the event that takes place every two years. sasa condued brahms and two other pieces for the swiss orchestra. the top prize went to a 23-year-old from the united states. >> translator: i felt a connection with the audience and the orchestra. that's what i'm most happy about. >> the competition is seen as a gateway to success for young

competitors. a japanese won the top prize in 1959. that concludes this edition of news line. i'm keiko kitagawa. on behalf of our team thank you ññ

>> hello it is 1:00 p.m. in the french capital. our headlines this monday. hailing it as a victory, the cerise a party has won elections in greece being there conservative rivals easily. the top priority, dealing with greece's staggering debt. eastern european countries are meeting at the migrant crisis shows no signs of slowing