glad to have you with us on this edition of "newsline." here's a look at some of the stories we're following at this hour. israeli forces are pressing ahead with their bombardment of the gaza strip and more and more civilians are being killed. authorities in germany tell a cia station chief to leave the country after finding two suspected double agents working for the u.s. and the president of the world bank wants to put an end to extreme poverty and he said innovation is the key. israeli forces are not letting up in their air strikes on the gaza strip. they're firing missile after missile in an offensive against the islamic resistance movement,

hamas. palestinian officials say 79 people have been killed and at least 570 wounded. israeli commanders launched their offensive on tuesday. they say they hit at least 100 targets on thursday morning alone. they've attacked more than 800 locations in all. they've destroyed weapons depots and the home of hamas leaders. israeli commanders say since tuesday, militants in gaza have fired more than 350 rockets toward southern israel. they've activated 23,000 reserve soldiers and may consider launching the ground offensive. the latest violence was sparked by the murders of three israeli teenagers. israeli authorities blame members of hamas. someone kidnapped and killed a palestinian teenager in what is believed to be a revenge killing. u.n. secretary general has appealed for a cease fire. he addressed an emergency meeting of the security council

and said it is more urgent than ever to avoid an israeli/palestinian war. >> i continue on condemn the rising number of civilian lives in gaza. once again, palestinian officials are caught between hamas's irresponsibility and israel's tough response. >> he said he would continue his efforts to bridge at a gaps and revise negotiations. both ambassadors are pointing fingers at the other side. >> their oppression. enough of this injustice and enough of this violence and conflict. >> we aren't looking for a band-aid solution that will allow hamas to rest and regroup. we aren't going to give them a so-called time-out. >> security council members are discussing a statement encouraging both sides to agree to a truce. international negotiators are struggling to reach a final

accord on iran's nuclear program by a july 20th deadline. now, the foreign ministers have been invited to vienna in a bit to breathe new life into the gotiations. european union fortune policy chief and others have been leading the attempt to find common ground. the spokesperson said the ministers of the six world powers have been invited to participate. a u.s. state department spokesperson said, secretary of state john kerry will travel to vienna this weekend. french government sources said foreign minister laurent fabius will arrive on sunday. they remain sharply at odds over the scale of the enrichment program including the number centrifuges it should be allowed to use. they're divided over how to lift the economic sanctions imposed by western nations. officials with the international atomic energy

agency warn insurgents in iraq have seized nuclear materials. they say the substances do not pose a significant threat. iraqi government officials informed the iaea the insurgents took the material from a university in the city of mosul. reuters says nearly 40 kilogram of compounds were kept at the university for research purposes. the iraqi government is asking the u.n. to help to stave off the threat of their use by terrorists in iraq or abroad. the officials say the materials are low grade but they say any loss of regulatory control over nuclear and other radioactive materials is a cause for concern. over the last month, sunni militants have taken control of a number of cities in an offensive across northern and western iraq. authorities in germany have asked the top american spy in berlin to leave the country. they expelled the cia station

chief after they discovered what they believed to be two new cases of americans saying that. authorities refused to identify the spy by name but local media say the person obtained secret government information. germans were already angry with the americans. last area they learned that u.s. agents had evens dropped on the mobile phone of chance lore angela merkel. >> translator: looking at it with common sense in my view, spying on allies is a waste of energy. >> last week authorities arrested a german intelligence worker for passing documents from a parliamentary committee to u.s. agents. and earlier this week they said they suspected a u.s. spy in the defense ministry. british lawmakers are worried that extremists could carry out more attacks so they have submitted legislation that would give authorities greater access to communications data.

the legislation would force telecommunications company to retain customer data for a year. and it would allow authorities to intercept some communications. the government will fast track the changes and the legislation is expected to become law as early as next week. the european union's top court addressed the matter in april. judges ruled, keeping communications records for six months or longer infringes on privacy and human rights. but some lawmakers are concerned about britains travels to iraq and syria. and prime minister david cameron said it is vital that some powers are not compromised. >> a failure to act now fundamentally undermine our capability to country range of threats to the safety of our citizens. and i will not stand by and let that happen. >> police arrested two british men in january after they returned from the war in syria. last week, the suspects admitted they had been plotting an attack on british soil.

tokyo government officials have headed to new york on a mission. they're selling americans on their city. now from the business desk for that and other stories. >> as you know, people here cheered when tokyo won the right to host the 2020 olympic games. hundreds of thousands of people will visit japan around that time. maybe even more. that will bring in millions for all kinds of people. but city officials are seeing a way to raise some money now. they're calling on american executives to invest in tokyo. the officials hosted a seminar in new york for dozens of they said more and more eople. opportunities are popping up in the lead up to the games. they said many international companies have had offices in tokyo and they said it is a safe place to do siness. many people seemed to have got the message. >> we love to, you know, open an office there that would serve

the larger asia population as our business grows. >> i think a lot of foreigners feel a lot more comfortable looking at tokyo and a lot of the incentives and the infrastructures being put in place. i think people may consider tokyo a lot more than in the past. >> some people were less enthusiastic. they said it is difficult to access the market in japan and then corporate taxes are too high. let's check on markets now. tokyo stocks remain under some selling pressure. the nikkei is trading in the negative, down by .3%. people who follow the markets say investors are concerned. regulators in portugal suspended on thursday the trading of shares in one of the country's biggest banks. but analysts say some investors are buying stocks as they see bargains. over the past week, jam knees share prices lost more than 2%. and currency traders, they're incline to move their money into what they see as safer

investments such as the yen. in new york, the selling as eased and the pairs are moving in a narrow range. looking at otheration markets. south korea's kospi is down by .6%. let's see what's happening in hong kong. up just a touch this hour. customs officials in china are seeing more and more activity at docks and airports. they say over the past three months, exports have been busier than they were last year. the officials say in june, exports brought in more than $180 billion. that's up 7.2% from the same month last year. and imports rose 5.5% to more than $150 billion. trade went up 6.4% to more than $340 billion. trade in the first half of the

year came to $2.2 trillion. the customs officials are expecting the second half of the year to be even better. and they say economies in industrialized nations are likely to keep improving. japanese government officials are reaching out to some of the most vulnerable members of society. they're drawing up guidelines to break the cycle of child poverty. the officials are still studying how many children are struggling and they're trying to work out what percentage of young people from single parent families finish school and go on to higher education. the officials say they want to put more social workers in schools. they plan to offer more scholarships for high school and interest-free loans for college. the officials also want to higher experts to help single parents find work. they hope to get draft guidelines approved at a cabinet meeting later this month.

the president of the world bank has spoken over and over about the role the private sector can play in helping those in need. jim is leading a campaign to end extreme poverty by 2030. nhk world sat down with him to talk about poverty, growth and the risks he sees ahead. in june the world bank scales back. from 3.2 to 2.8%. but he said the major downside risks have been alleviated. >> we're now in a much sounder footing. there are still some risks. if the tapering of monetary easing of the u.s., excuse me, the u.s. fed is more abrupt than we home, there could be some real bumps. especially for emerging markets,

economies. we're still hoping that the growth of the high income countries will really take off. while growth is not going to be as high as any of us wish, we really think that so many of the really severe downside risks have been minimized. >> what about the situation in argentina? how worrying is the situation? will argentina be able to meet the deadline for paying interest on its government bonds? >> argentina is a member of the world bank group. we continue to watch that situation very carefully. the argentinian authorities have told us they want to move back to a more normalized relationship and begin borrowing from us. the impact in the region could be substantial. and again, we're very much hoping that some kind of agreement can be reached. >> last month, shinzo abe's government approved the strategy

for growth. they pointed out the focus on economics on encouraging women to work is necessary to revitalize the japanese economy. >> i think it is exactly what needs to be done. if there is a huge unused resource in japan, it is the women in the work force. so it will require a pretty fundamental shift in culture. but i would say in that both as a president of the world bank and an an throw apologist, we've seen shifts happening in other places that happened fairly quickly where women became involved in the work force, much more quickly than anyone had expected. >> kim joined the symposium to investigate how they can help reduce poverty around the world. >> innovation is critical for us at the world bank group. our goal is to end extreme poverty. meaning bring it down to as low

a level as possible, which we think is about 3%. >> you set the goal to be 2030. that's 16 years away. isn't that a bit ambitious? >> it is one of the most ambitious targets that the world bank has ever adopted. think about it. this will be the first time in human history that we can actually talk about an end to extreme poverty. we know now that more than 90% of the jobs in developing countries are created in the private sector. so building a robust and healthy private sector is a huge part of our plan to end poverty. >> recently japan has gotten $5 billion in loans. more than any other country. but kim said what is more important is the innovation of young japanese people to achieve the goal of freeing the world of extreme poverty. nhk world, tokyo. >> that's the latest in business for this hour. i'll leave you with a check on markets.

indonesia's presidential election has left the country in a state of political limbo with both candidates claiming victory. conflicting exit poll results and official silence on the progress of the vote count are to blame. on thursday, after voting ended, newspapers in jakarta were declaring the closest race in indonesia's history. >> translator: whoever becomes the president, we hope he can improve our economy, society, politics, and culture. >> translator: for me it doesn't matter who wins. what is important is that our country is prosperous and faces no difficulties >>he candidates are jakarta governor joko widodo and

subianto. the election committee will not announce the official result until july 22nd. some are worried that the delay could trigger confusion or worse. the outgoing president has waded into the discussion. he met both candidates separately on wednesday night at his home. he said he asked both camps to remain calm. people living in the philippines are still cleaning up from last november's super typhoon. high winds and strong ocean surges killed thousands of people. officials are warning that a similar type of storm could hit japan or other parts of east asia and they're helping the public get prepared.

>> this computer simulation shows what could happen if a super typhoon struck japan the air pressure at the center of the storm, that means this super typhoon is stronger than the one last year in the philippines. professor says the scenario he created is not the stuff of fantasy. he says the day when people in japan experience a similar storm is closer than they might think. >> translator: a one-degree change in the ocean temperature has a big impact on a storm's strength. so as ocean temperatures rise in the future, typhoons will become much stronger. >> giant typhoons form every year over waters to japan's south. most of them weaken as they pass

over cooler waters further north. but global warming could change that. if ocean temperatures were to increase by two degrees, typhoons would reach japan at full strength. the disaster that hit the philippines could strike japan in the future. we need to start preparing for that now. >> powerful typhoons strike japan nearly every year. 55 years ago, a major typhoon hit the bay in central japan. it caused flooding over a vast area. more than 5,000 people were killed or went missing. in the years after the disaster, local and national leaders built higher embankments along the shores. they hoped that would prevent future floods.

but experts say they would not be able to stop flooding caused by a super typhoon. they looked at what would happen if such a storm were to hit. they projected that the colored zones would be flooded and they say if a storm surge breached the barriers, over 400 square kilometers would be under water. >> translator: we need all kinds of strategies to protect people. building things like embankments requires time and money so we need to supplement that with other american purchases can be implemented quickly and easily. >> government officials are trying to help. they've created a computerized map to help residents chart their escape. people can use it to create an

evacuation route. first, they enter their location and destination. and the time they plan to flee. the software then tells them if the route is safe. people in areas prone to flooding are using the software to prepare. these residents are simulating an evacuation. in this scenario, a woman has heard that the embankment has been washed away. she plans to go to a shelter but tries to drive home first. the surge washes in faster than she expected. >> translator: if you don't do this regularly, you won't know where to go during an emergency.

>> experts say super typhoons are coming. the question is, when? citizens and government leaders must work together to get ready. people living in northern japan are still bracing for heavy rainfall even after the tropical storm became a low-pressure system. let's get the world weather report. >> it has traveled over cooler water and is now a low-pressure system. it is still tracking the pacific side of japan as it steadily weakens but it is still enhancing the rainy season band lingering over northern japan which means it will be surging a lot of the moisture, dumping in as very heavy rainfall. about 200 -- excuse me, 120

millimeters of additional rainfall in hokkaido on top of what we have already been seeing. these areas have been drenched with rainfall. the land is very well saturated. in the wake of this storm system, it has pulled away. but in the back of that, we're likely to see heat. heat warnings are in much of south korea as well as japan. take a look at these figures. tokyo if it does hit 34 degrees on saturday, that will be the hottest day we've seen this summer so far. kyoto reaching 35. also the same story in seoul. please watch out for heat stroke and heat exhaustion. down toward the south, things are heating up. there's a tropical depression that formed near the mariana islands. it is likely to become a tropical storm set by saturday evening. likely to pull into game so we're likely to see stormy

conditions. some of you enjoying your summer vacation hear but unfortunately in hagatna, you're likely to see temperature that are hot and showers. here across the eastern continent of asia, likely to see thunderstorms in manila as well as bangkok. now, let's move over to the americas where we have a little tornado touchdown reported here in south carolina. the system still in green and is likely to bring rough weather across the atlantic. a very slow moving system. the tail end will continue to pound into the gulf states on friday. northern and central plains, looking at severe thunderstorms. the monsoonal flow is very active. we want the precipitation no, relief in sight. fresno at 36 degrees. and also, portland reaching 33. so extreme heat is covering the west. now to central europe we go. cut-off lows are very active. we have a report of one water

spout in italy/croatia. the severe weather will continue to pound the locations into the weekend. likely to continue a little bit longer. athens at 36. the heat is here and lisbon at 34 degrees. pamplona, you will see on and off showers. hopefully it won't be affecting this festival. take a look at this video. many people in pamplona, spain, enjoyed the running of the bulls on thursday under calm weather. several thousand thrill seekers raced through the street with several fating bulls. it starts at 8:00 a.m. and lasts about three to five minutes. this race has become a global tourist attraction. it will be taking place through monday. on that note, here's the extended forecast around the globe for the selected cities.

and that's all for now on this edition of "newsline." from all of us here at nhk world, thanks for watching.

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