here in japan it's a tuesday night. i'm james tengan in tokyo. welcome to nhk "newsline." the u.s. has suspended syria cease-fire talks with russia. the two countries negotiated a truce last month that took effect briefly. syrian government forces have stepped up their offensive against rebel held areas of aleppo bombing hospitals. washington is accusing moscow of not living up to its commitments under the deal. >> rather russia and the syrian regime have chosen to pursue a military course inconsistent

with the cessation of hostilities is demonstrated by intensified attacks target of critical infrastructures such as hospitals. >> a russian foreign ministry spokesperson says the u.s. was trying to shift the blame to her country. u.s. secretary of state john kerry and sergey lavrov have been speaking to try to keep the cease-fire alive. the civil war in syria has killed hundreds of thousands of people and displaced over 10 million. the islamic state militant group has claimed responsibility for two attacks in the country on monday. the suicide bomber killed at least 30 people. syria state news agency says the attacker detonated an explosive device at a wedding. 90 others were injured. a leading kurdish party figure was among those killed. the islamic state group released a statement on the internet

which says they targeted the gathering of kurds. it seems retaliation. they took over a town that had been under the control of the islamic state group. the militants are also claiming responsibility for the attack in hama. two suicide bombers killed three people when they attacked an office of bashar al assad' party. japan's environmental agency aimed at curbing global warming gases. yamamoto says he wants the diet to quickly deliberate it. >> translator: considering the nature of the agreement and the current circumstances we may need to take a bold approach to speed up the deliberations. >> last month the agreement was ratified by the world's two

largest emitters of greenhouse gases. china and the u.s. they were joined on sunday by the fourth largest emitter india. the eu is set to follow shortly. that will pave the way for it to go into effect early november. japan is the world's fifth largest emitter. but the matter has been on the back burner with the diet focused on issues including the transpacific partnership free trade deal. the u.n. secretary general has planted a sapling from a tree that survived the bombing of hiroshima. ban ki-moon planted. it came from the seed of a ginkgo tree that was there. the tree still stands today.

>> as this tree blossoms, it will also be a vivid reminder of how the hibakusha, those brave survivors, have transformed their tragedy into a message of hope for the world. >> the tree was donated by the mayor of hiroshima when he visited geneva in may. managers at japanese businesses are bullish on capital spending but are concerned about their outlook. gene otani has the details on that and other headlines. >> the bank of japan's survey shows that businesses have solid plans for their capital investment but the survey also suggests a worsening outlook for earnings. growth by large companies compared to the last fiscal year. but the stronger yen is weighing down on the corporate earnings outlook. major businesses predict a 9.2% drop on outlook profits.

if the yen stays strong, there could be a further drop in earnings. another number shows that they expect consumer prices to rise an average of 0.6% a year from now. that's down from the previous survey and marks five straight quarters of decline. the outlook reflects the sluggish personal consumption and slow rise in wages. stronger yen is also a factor as it makes imported materials cheaper. financial leaders from the world's 20 biggest economies will be meeting in washington this week to discuss the main risks to global economic growth. japan's finance minister aso says he's thinking about the health of a leading german bank. >> translator: the discussions in washington are likely to include deutsche bank and other topics. we want to have constructive talks regarding those issues.

>> aso is tied up in the moment in the diet but he says he'll attend as many meetings in washington as obligations allow. aalso says she wants to discuss the new economic policy as well as structural reform. checking the markets, tokyo share prices closed higher as the weaker yen boosted overall sentiment. phoebe amoroso reports from the tokyo stock exchange. >> the dollar gained ground against the yen after u.s. manufacturing data came in stronger than expected. let's check the closing levels for this tuesday, october the 4th. the nikkei average closed 0.8% higher finishing at 16,735. the broader topix gained 0.7%. taking a look at individual stocks, the weaker yen looked at export related shares. auto makers end -- both enjoyed stronger sales in contrast too

declines of their counterparts and the wider u u.s. market. shshares of biotech companies re sharply after a japanese physiologist became this year's winner of the nobel prize in physiology or medicine. cosmo bio is related to his research. it surged 22%. traders are likely to stay focused on the u.s. this week and keeping an eye on the dollar/yen pair. phoebe amoroso. hank sang index gaining by almost 0.5%. financials and the telecom sector led the gains. but real estate fell as some cities in mainland china took steps to suppress property prices. australia, 5,484 the closing number.

banking shares ended mixed after the central bank kept its key rate unchanged. seoul's kospi back from holiday. it was up more than 0.5%. indonesia climbing to a fresh 18-month high. here's a look at some of the other stories we're follow. a japanese government survey shows consumer sentiment in september hit a three-year high. officials at the cabinet office and the consumer confidence index stood at 43. the officials revised upward their assessment. they now say consumer confidence shows signs of recovery. u.s. new car sales in september posted two straight months of decline. private research firm auto data says sales last month came in at 1.43 million units. ford's sales tumbled by 8%. general motors also suffered a decline. meanwhile, nissan and toyota

rose while honda remained almost flat. u.s. democratic presidential candidate hillary clinton has reiterated her position to the transpacific partnership -- her opposition, rather to the transpacific partnership. she said in ohio that the tpp is unfair to american workers and her stance won't change as president. japan, the u.s., and ten other countries signed the deal in february. the two major economies had been trtrying to persuade their legislatures to ratify the pact. the exodus of young people from the countryside is threatening everywhere. but one entrepreneur is showing there aree possibilities for people prepared to take a chance and go the other way. >> reporter: kozagawa town.

half of the population is over 65. inside this old house is a young design company that's looking to shake things up. >> translator: i'm 22 and i'm the web director. >> translator: i'm 21 and in charge of project planning. >> translator: i'm'm the ceo an planner. >> reporter: the ceo is just 23. after graduating high school, he ran a cafe and worked for a design firm. his dream was to use t the powe of design to reimagine and revitalize towns. so two years ago he relocated to kozagawa. the town offers financial support for start-up businesses. >> translatotor: there's a sayi that only outsiders, fools, and young people can change a place. i want to do that through design.

>> reporter: his first job was to help revise sales for an inn losing money. he started by redesigning the brochure to luxury. he also worked with the chef to overhaul the lunch menu. thanks in part to businesses like these, business took off. the inn was back in the black. >> translator: everything he said turned out to be right. i realized that fairly quickly so i started to consult him on many things. now you could call him our future. >> reporter:r: his latest job i to find ways to promote venison. the biggest obstacle is t the price. 100 grams costs more than $4.

he noticed that venison packaging usually focuses on the wild quality of the meat. he's convinced a better approach would be to market it as a lean, healthy meat. that way, he says, women over 30 with the most to spend would disregard the cost. his design uses gold to cononvea sense of affordable luxury. we'd'd li we'd. >> translator: we'll like to see more people like him come to kozagawa to revitalize business. >> translator: i want to be the kind of person who other people want to work with to create new things. i intend to stay here. >> reporter: for many japan's countryside looks like a dead end. but for those prepared to look a little closer, the decline represents a vast opportunity for reinvention and newfound

prosperity. >> you can catch our report again online together with a full transcript. look for nhk world and business wrap. that's a look at business news. i'm going to leave you with the markets. philippine police have killed at least 1200 people in a controversial anti-drugs operation since president rodrigo duterte took office in june. nhk world looks into some of the civilian who is have become victims in the violence.

>> reporter: filmed this video in august. police raiding are approaching a man off camera and said not to be resisting. voices quickly become raised. police fired 14 shots killing the man. he was later identified as 22-year-old eric cecil. he lived in a slum near where he was killed with about 20 others including family and friends. he had no doconnection with dru. >> translator: he never fought with anyone. the police had the wrong person. >> translator: he wasn't the sort of guy to take drugs.

>> reporter: his rel tiatives h filed a complaint against police saying he wasn't resisting and should never have been shot. the national bureau of investigation is looking into the matter. the war on drugs takes place in the shadows. vigilantes operate with impunity. innocent people are drug into the violence. two unidentified people on a motorbike fired shots at a house in the northern philippines in late august. a bullet killed a little girl while she was getting ready for kindergarten. >> translator: it happened while we were having breakfast. she just got out of the shower. >> reporter: danica's grandfather used to be a drug user. police are investigating the

shooting as drugs related. they haven't identified any suspects. >> translator: i'm just hoping for a fair trial. danica was only a child. and her precious future was taken away. >> reporter: as this controversial campaign enters its fourth month, the death of an infant child is just one of many. nhk world, manila. three british-born scientists have shared this year's nobel prize in physics. they're being honored for their research into unusual phases or states of matter such as superconductors. >> the royal swewedish academy sciences has decided to award the 201016 nobel prize in physi with one-half to david j.thoules

andhe other half to f. duncan holdane for top logical faces of matter. >> all three are now based at univiversities i in the u.s. in the 1970s, kosterlitz showed that superconductivity can occur in thin layers. they also demonstrated that it could occur at low temperatures and explained why it disappears at high temperatures. in the '80s haldane used small magnets. hoping materials can be used in new generations of electronics and superconductors or in future quantum computers. south korea's economy has focused on high-tech engineering and the country's boosting open

market policies to increase its competitiveness. but while that's good for those industries, agriculture has lost momentum. nhk world reports on what's happening to korean beef. >> reporter: this man has dedicated his life to beef productions. he these days he worries about consumers turning away from beef. >> translator: consumers prefer hanu over imported beef because of the flavor but they tend to buy it because of their price. >> reporter: more than half the beef in south korea now comes from abroad. much is shipped in from the u.s. and australia.

this cut of hanu beef is twice the price. it's partly because of free trade pacts seoul has signed with them. farmers from protested the deals which are aimed at boosting exports of korean cars, electronics, and appliances. it also allowed them to import cheaper beef. many beef breeders have shrunk their herds over fears of plummeting prices. so the supply of domestic c cow is decreasing spiking their price higher. it's climbed more than 30% in the last five years. the competition from cheaper foreign beef doesn't bode well for the hanu market. but there is hope. this farmer has tried to raise

the quality of beef by enriching what the cows eat. he uses compounds feeds mixed with vitamins. he says it improves digestion. he's also invested in high-tech monitoring of their conditions. he can observe them at any time of day from anywhere. he also keeps daily records never failed to note the dates of their mating, artificial fertilizations, and when they give birth. >> translator: what i'm trying to do is to maintain high quality cattle. i hope i can produce as much flavorful hanu meat as possible. >> r reporter: cho is not the oy one who's upping his game. farmers from across the country are trying to raise the quality of their beef to be able to better compete. all the hard work and effort by local cattle farms final pays

off. some of the beef here was exported to hong kong last year. the export such as sirloin or tetenderloin. exporters say the reaction is very positive. >> translator: people in hong kong say hanu has much more flavor than japanese beef. >> reporter: but there are still challenges. breeders are seeing foot and mouth disease in their livestocks and against the negative press that creates. >> translator: i think to increase our exports, we have to invest more money on building a brand image of korean beef. >> reporter: korean farmers hope they can rise to the challenge and while they're setting sights on new markets they will also be looking at ways to get their

beef back onto tables in their own country. nhk world. nhk "newsline" comes to you live from tokyo. people in southern japan are dealing with the effects of thai foon chaba as it moves through ththe region. the meteorological agency says the typhoon was moving at 30 kilometers perer hour. packing winds of up t to 180 kilometers per hour near its center. one of okinawa's smaller islands borere the brunt ofhe storm overnight. aerial footage shows how m much damage the winds caused. the roof of one gymnasium was ripped off. there are no reports of casualties on the island. but windows were shattered, trtrees uprooted,nd cars turnen over. many houses are also without electricity.

the typhoon is expected to near northern kyushu on wednesday morning. for more details on the typhoon, let's go to our meteorologist sayaka mori. sayaka, what's the late snes. >> chaba is the strongest cyclone to affect japan in october. the system caused a lot of heavy rain and powerful winds in the region. the airport had gusts of about 210 kilometers per hour early tuesday morning. it caused some structural damage out there. the system has weakened a bit. it was a violent typhoon. now it's a very strong typhoon. still a very potent system. the system is still including the okinawa region and also strong winds are still blowing in the area. the system will likely move up towards the north and get close to the island on tuesday or rather wednesday morning local time and veers towards the east and will affect the south of

south korea or north of western japan as we go into wednesday morning local time. now, the strongest winds are going to be happening across the north of the kyushu region. gusts could hit 180 kilometers per hour. and structural damage may occur andaways are going to be up tot 10 memeters and possiblyp to 180 millllimeters of rainll.. system will likely affect western japan into thursday. but powerful winds and heavy rain are anticipated for the south of south korea. so busan will see stormy weather on wednesday. tokyo was a hot and sunny day in tokyo. the high was 32 degrees. that's almost a record for october. tomorrow's going to be a different story. wewe will see some rainfall and also cooler temperatures. now let's go too the o other si of the globe.e. we are watching another intense

sysystem. this is matthew. now, matthew is about to make landfall in haiti. we have some video coming out of the space and also haiti. you can see the dramatic image of matthew from the international space station. experts say the storm could cause catastrophic damage. at lease one person i is killed and morere missing. airports in both haiti and jamaica have been closed. again, matthew is expected to make landfall in haiti soon. the system is a category 4 system. haiti is going to be the strongest hurricane to hit the area on record. the system will likely move up towards the north and affect eastern cuba by late tuesday local time and then move across the bahamas. it's going to dump extremely heavy rainfall. prprobably up to 1,000 millimets for the mountainous areas in

haiti switch definitely not good news. take a look at this picture. this is the boundary between the -- between haiti and the dominican republic. because of deforestation, they are prone to flooding and mudslides. and people will are still recovering from the earthquake in 2010. so conditions will be quite catastrophic out there. to the north there's a potent system over the northern and united states. we are looking at quite cool temperatures. temperatures are going to be as follows on tuesday. here's your extended forecast. ]ñ

60ie: this is "france 24," minutes live around the world. i'm genie godula. coming up -- at the european parliament, we will take a closer look at whether or not there is real hope for change after the ratification of the paris climate deal. with.s. walks out of talks russia over syria, accusing moscow of not living up to the cease-fire deal. this after the near daily bombing of aleppo continues. in afghanistan, taliban fighters are pushed out of the center of kunduz, but battles are still underway to clear the city of gunmen hiding out in residential homes. also, in