hello and welcome to nhk "newsline.e." we begin this hour with the latest on the world's airline industry which is struggling to survive the coronavirus crisis. a global aviation trade organization predicts that net losses for airlines this year will come t to about $844 bill. >> it's an unprecedented crisis. it's a disasasr for them. >> the internanational air transport association says industry losseses rise by $230,0

eachch day. in t the asia pacific region, ty stand to lose $29 billion while nortrth americacan airliness wi lose $23.1 billion. it's as passenger numbers this year are to come to about $2.25 billion. roughly half the number off people that flew in 2019. in france the government has announced a hugege aid package r the aviation industry. $17 billion n over the next thr yearars. >> translator: if we don't intervene now, one-third of the industry will be lost. >> under the rescue plan, the government will help fund the development of low emission aircraft to increase the industry's competitiveness. meanwhile, hong kong's government is extending about $3.5 billion in financial

support to its flag carrier c ce pacific aiairways. >> government investment signifies our enforcing aviation status.. and in preserving the necessary conditions to enable the much-needed post-covid-19 revival of the economy. >> the airline says its revenue since february have plunged to about 1% compared to the same period last year. the brazilian government on tuesday resumed publishing the cumulative totals of coronavirus infections and deaths. it comes after the supreme court ordered the health ministry to release the data. opposition lawmakers had insisted accurate data is necessary to stop the virus from spreading. brazil'seaealth ministryy abruptlyly stoppeded the dailyl updates on i its webebsite on satuturday. and instead began p posting how

many p people havee recovered. prpresident bolsonaro said the mininistry madee thehe change claiming governonors were agaggerating reportsts to secur largerer budgetets. but the move followed mounting criticism from those who said they suspected the government of trying to down playy the seriousness of the situation. brazil has seen a surge in infections most notably in poor, densely populated areas. as of tuesday, more than 730,000 people had been infected, a figure second only to the united states. a survey by johns hopkins university shows the number of infections worldwide have topped 7.2 million. the global death toll is more than 411,000. an official with the world health organization says some studies suggest as much as 40% of coronavirus transmissions may be due to people without

symptoms. the w.h.o.'s technical chihief spoke during the siaial media q&a sessioion. >> we know somome people who dot have s symptoms can transmit th virus on. > van kerkhove suggested silt virus carriers may be as infectious as others. she urged to keep face masks on. the head of the healalth emergencies program alsoointed out the virus is present in the upper respiratoryry tract closet the mouth ununlike merers and s. he said that couould be why clusteters werfound at gyms and clubs in japan. >> youou're clolose by and

projojecting youour v voice at someon if the virusus is prprent, t ths every likelihooood you can proje that. >> h he added the virusus can b transmitted when asymptomatic people are breathing heavily or speaking loudly. severe food shortages in north korea are intensifying due to the pandemic. he's calling on pyongyang to do more to prevent people from starving. north korea closed its border with china in january in a bid to stop the spread of the virus. thomas o'hare kintana said it caused homelessnsness and the ct of medicine.. he's calling on pyongyang to allow international aid to be delivered without restrictions saying essential goods are stranded at the border. the special rapture also wants

the u.n. security council to reconsider sanctions that impact people's livelihoods and hinder north korea's capacity to respond to the pandemic. it's uncleaear h how many coronavirus cacases there are i north korea as it has not issued a single case with the w.h.o. in hong kong, pro-democracy rallies were held to mark one year since the start of mass protests. aside from a gap during the height of the coronavirus, the demonstrations have continued unabated. several hundred people gathered in central hong kong island on tuesday evening. they called for the territory's independence from mainland china. >> it's my duty to be here because as we alall know, this year is a really tough year. we must try our best to voice

out, to let the government know that we don't want this law. >> the protesters defied a government ban on meetings of more than eight people put in place to keep the coronavirus from spreading. police say 53 people were arrested on suspicion of attending unlawful gatherings. last year on june 9th, more than 1 million people reportedly attended a rally opposing a bill that would allow extraditions of criminal suspects to china. the bill has since been withdrawn. beijing's recent plan to introduce national security legislation for hong kong has become a new rallying point for people who fear china's encroaching presence. officials in beijing say the move would allow them to take the lead in establishing laws to safeguard hong kong's security. they say intelligence agencies from the mainland would be set up in the territory if needed, but many specifics remain unclear.

china's state-run media reported that the standing committee of the national people's congress will meet beginning june 18th. the legislation could be enacted during the three-day meeting. as beijing further tightens control over hong kong, many in the territory worry the principle of one country, two systems is at risk. nhk world spoke with an expert on hong kong politics to get his take on the way forward. >> reporter: two protests one year apart. pro-democracy forces say their message remains the same. they are fighting to protect the territory's autonomy from beijing. but in the past 365 days, our world has changed. >> translalator: i think t the year h has created a a big gap those who are pro china and those who are didissatisfied wi china.

>> reporter: the protests gained worldwide attention with protesters reaching out to the united states for support. that move combined with the hong kong government to stop the protests forced beijing'g's han. > translator: the chinesese government needed to put the brakes on this. i think it wants too quicklyly introduce the n natiol secuty lawss to crack downn on and regulate the protests. >> reporter: at the same time, the goals have given protest leaders a new opportunity to take aim at beijing. they are asking lawmakers in other countries including japan to speak out against the majors. >> translator: i think it's important that the international community sends a message that it's watching the human rights situation in c china and the ho kong issue. >> reporter: but yukuo says the strategy will also require change on the ground in hong kong.

he says if the protest does become violent or destroy property, it will give beijing an excuse to take action. >> translator: i think it's important for the pro-democracy movement to go back to being peaceful and rational. that was their original tactic. >> reporter: he said that will be increasingly important over the coming months. if elections provide pro-democracy forces with an opportunity to control a majority of legislative council seats and a way to promote their values. nhk world, tokyo. now for an update on the tokyo summer olympics which have been postponed by a year due to the coronavirus. nhk has learned the international olympic committee says they will lay out its final plan in september. the postponement is expected to cost several billion dollars.

the ioc has been considering ways to reduce spending in over 200 areas including the opening ceremomony. the ioc will discuss steps to prevent infection and cut costs. officials will come up with a final plan in september. tokyo's governor also said last week officials are looking for ways to streamline the games to cope with ththe virus. the head of the ioc's commission for the event john coates said last month that october will be a criticall time to decide whether the postptponed games c go ahead at all. time now for world weather with our meteorologist sayaka mori. people in tokyo had a sunny but windy day wednesday. when will the rainy season start in tokyo? >> the rainy season will likely start in tokyo on thursday. that's tomorrow. the gloomy season has already begun in western japan.

also saw the onset to the season two to three days later than normal. we've got lots of heavy rainfall on the menu for the west. for the next 48 hours, we may see up to 400 millimeters of rainfall. again, rain will spread towards the east starting on thursday. it was the last day before the wet period. tokyo had the high of 31.4 making it the warmest day of the years so far. the hottest region of the nation was the tohoku region which is typically cool. the high rose to about 36 degrees in portions of the fukushima prefecture. that's a record for the month of june. temperatures will plunge to the 20s thanks to the rainy weather for many places in japan. it looks like the rainy season

will likely end soon in the okinawa region. now let's go to australia. fog caused a scecene across s y sydney. take a look at this footage. fog covered parts of the skyline near the harbor. areas of the city showed the beautiful scene as buildings were interspersed with the low clouds. low temperatures have cooled into the lower teens in the city allowing for the fog to develop. temperatures will likely be in the teens across sydney. then we will see lots of rainfall across portions of west australia. 22 for the high in perth and 18 in sydney. cooling down to the low teens in melbourne. that's it for me. have a nice day.

and those were the top stories for this hour.

thank you very much for joining us and nhk "newsline." welcome too "newsline in-depth." we come to you from the rooftop of the nhk headquarters in shibuya, tokyo. that greenery behind me is yoyogi park. we've come out from our studio once again to get a bird's eye view on the pandemic and the world that comes after. in today's peek over the horizon, we have an e exclusive interview with jack atali. our viewers may know atali as

the adviser to several french administrations. back in 2009, he warned of the need to prepare for an unprecedented pandemic that would threatenn individuals, companies, and nations. in an interview with me in april, he warned again t that unless we dececide t overhaul or economyy and reoeorient industr, we cannonot move on. attali's tone was positive, a word he lives by. i have been following your blog and struck by the consistent optimism. thinkk and live positivive. >> being optimisist is being spectacular of the match and think the probability your team will win. being positive means you think

you can win the match. i'm positive in the sense that i think man kind, japan, france, companies, families can win the match. if we do the best thing for our own security andnd globally for the best of taking into account ththe -- what we learn from tha. and changnging the economy. i think that this is a very good oppoportunitity to move t towart i call a positive economy. which means an economy which is focusing on long-g-term and focusing onn what i call thehe economy of life.. li industries w which meansfor r life. food, health, ededation, culturure, information, researc digital.l. and maybe forget some other sectors. i ththink we'e'll win against t crisis. i don't know if we'll find drugs

or vaccines, but i think in some months, a measure of doctors t say. bubut in ththe long-term that m we havave to move the economy. we hee economymy off war. whwhere companies arere forced move fr moveve. we are not doioing tradiditiona bombs or weapons, but to produce onon the long-term more thihing the kind i just mentionened. medical equipments, health equipments, hospital, housing, health, hygiene, water, good food, et cetera, et cetera. a huge conversion of the industry. >> attali is positive, but he does not shy away from some ugly

truths. the pandemic has exposed once again the inequality of our world not just in terms of wealth, but in terms of health as well. i want to mention disparities like in asia or africa that can be pockets of poverty are quite visible right next to skyscrapers. they are the ones who are going through this pandemic with the acute papain. >> death iss equal f for allll . andd thehen we s see also aroun worlrld a lot of wealthy and supposed to be well-protected people whichch are targeted by this disease. but it's clear that the poorest who cannot afford to confine because they have to go out to work simply to find food for their families, these people

will be much more infected than the others. and thatt is certatainly true, as always, we hahave seen bad things for 20 centuries.s. pandemics affect m more of the poor than the rich. anand in the end, rich are also reached. >> that suggests that there's disparity not only in terms of wealth b but in termsms of h hls wewell. >> always. if you look a at statistitics i life expectancy, the life expectancy of f poor peoplple h always been shortrter than rich people. except when rich people use their wealth to get diabetes by eating too much. >> cities around the world have gradually begun to decrease

cases of coronavirus. by attali's's warning that some countries will suffer most seems to be coming true. africa had reached a a grim milestone with more than 100,000 confirmed cases of covid-19. but just when the world needs to come together to address the global pandemic, international division are widening. at the recent w.h.o. meeting, not only was u.s. president donald trump absent, washington threatened to put a hold on funds to the organization accusing it of favoring china and failing to do its job. the finger pointing and threats are d distracting the world at crucial time. experts warn we need to brace for a second and possibly third wave of coronavirus infections. attali took up this issue in a recent blog post showing a cartoon bunny running off a cliff. he asked if we are not like this bunny that fails to realize

there is no ground left under its feet. his point is that few people realize the gravity of the economic fallout brought by covid-19. and he asks, when are we going to wake up to the threat posed to our future by another wave of pandemic infections? this is something else attali warned of in our april interview. he said, humans tend to look away frorom problems i in the h things will just go back to normal. instead of avertininour yiyieyee says we should be looking for opportunities. you have once said that the history teachers that the humanity will change only when we are afraid. are we at that point where we hahave to rethinink the way we inin order to evolve? >> yes, absolutely. i hope we don't n need fefear. i hope we d don't n need catasae

toto move. and i do not wisish f thatat. i wldld prefer by magic touch, the pandemic stops now than anything else. but as it is now, we have to use it to help us move in a good direrection of ann a altruistic ecomy andnd societety, what call a positive society. oror empathyhy serviceses. and that iss something that wee can learn from but man kind is very light in the capapacity to think off a future. and weorget we are very often able to forget anynything that creati problems we don't like. then we get rid of them and come back too our n normal life. i d do hope we will not have th kind of weakness now.

>> you talk about empathy and altruism. what is meant by altruism? when people are panicked by supplies? closing borders? some may say you sound like a selfless saint, if i i may say . >> no, no, no. altruiuism is r rational -- is definition of rational selfishness. becausee we n nd to bebe sure t others are not infefected i in r to n e expect me t to be infect. we need to o be a altruistic in cocountry. also we have another -- in japan has a strong interest in the fact that china is working well. japan has a strong interest in seeing the u.s. developing well and getting out of the crisis

because of the interrelations between u.s. and japan. and more than anythihing, japan which is very welll connectednd ininvested more ththan many oth coununtries in afrfrica h has ag interestst i in developing.. because in the long-term vis-a-vis rational selfish interest off japapan to s the rest of the wororld do well ini order to develop its own markets. >> so would i be right in saying that altruism is not sacrificing everything for others but about the realization that protecting others will be in our own interest too and in interest of the family, community, and country and the humanity. >> absolutetely. altruism is most rational, selfish behavior. >> in spite of the fact you've warned us many years back as

well as other intellectuals who gave the warning, why did we not all realize that the altruruism would be the key? >> i i hope it make us realiziz. i'm afrfraid peoplple will forgs soon as the crisis is over. >> iff there werere going to bey silver linings to this, what would that be? >> wellll, it could be the decle of the death ratates arounund t world. itit could be good news off vace or drug that works. that wouould be the good thingse have. >> and in terms of a longer perspective view of the planet we live, in terms of reinventing the life we are leaving.g. >> i thinknk what would be goods any cocompanies, governments, individuals will beginin to mak decisions according to the --

the family, you make decisions taking into account the interest of your children if you have some. and we need all of us to take care. that will bebe the key. if everyone was movingg as a parent, as consumer, as laborer, as saver w with the money w we , and as a citizenen to vote in nt generation, that would be good. >> consulting the pandemic is a matter of priority. and naturally we focused on the here and now. but my interview with attali makes us realize that thiss health crisis is very much about our future and that caring for others means not just caring for those arounds today but those in future generations as well so that they can carry on w where left off.f. wewe have to learn our lessons well now and use them too shape

the post-pandemic world. that's it for today's "newsline in-depth." thank you for watching and see you again next time. ♪

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