in europe, a series of storm sti systems from the iberian peninsula and then to the balkans. first one is here in the iberian peninsula. that's going to bring rain showers across the uk. then this one, much stronger. already in italy bringing rain showers to the southern balkans. 20 to 30 millimeters of rain. 25 sent mecentimeters is expectg through your friday. so this is going create something blizzard like conditions across much of the area. then it continues to trek off to the east, kiev, you're seeing subzero temperatures. minus eight on sunday. that will be minus 15 and the lows, minus 20. even towards the west, just above the freezing mark here in london and paris. now here's a look at your extended forecast. >>> we'll be back in 30 minutes with more news. i'm gene otani in tokyo. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

lies in the southern balkan, southern italy as well as southern turkey. can see how these double digits in the southern half of the continent mean london staying at 1 degree for your high on tuesday. moscow minus 11 degrees. biting cold out there. lots of biting cold in mongolia sws. so i made muir that's much. low gentleman gentleman. west, giving a start to. . until then, the region could pile up to 47 centimeters in higher elevations with the snow fall, and 27 metres even in the low-lying areas. tokyo at 8 deers for you're high. for our high, i could he -- in the 30s in much of the tropic regions. if you can take a look at this satellite picture, the thinking of the told air is plunging. . it would be two centimeters into wednesday, you new englanders reaching this as well. new york, dc, foebl. you're look snow-liar. i'll leave you now about with your extended forecast. >>> that wraps up this edition of "newsline." i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. please stay with us.

moving away from the balkans. bringing severe weather. now towards turkey, seeing snow and even severe weather threatening. as temperatures still remaining chilly out here in eastern europe. moscow, minus ten only for your high on your saturday. london and paris, still around the freezing mark. if you want to go somewhere warm, go to lisbon. 13 here for your high on your saturday. here's a look at your extended forecast. >>> we'll be back in 30 minutes with more news. i'm gene otani in tokyo. from all of us here at nhk world, thanks very much for joining us. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

worked to disarm soldiers in africa and the middle east, helped to dissolve ethnic tensions in the balkans and worked on demining projects in asia, all in hopes of achieving some sort of peace. >> 50 or 60 years ago, the war was mainly between the states, but after late 1980s, it became inside the states. and what's happening right now is the expansion of terrorism. it's completely changing the dynamics of the conflict. >> seya has adapted to that change through her work, with the japan center for conflict prevention. she doesn't just mediate talks between states, it focuses on smaller groups or individuals that remain threatened. seya's mission began with the goal of disarming former child soldiers, but she realized that simply taking away weapons was just the beginning. >> finding the piece of code itself did not provide any peace. we would like to change the local population from the victim or the assault to the positive asian to change the society. >> reporter: the jc cp now >> reporter: the jc cp now handles post-war rebldinin east africa. this includes increasing security, vocational

moving away from the balkans. bringing severe weather. now towards turkey, seeing snow and even severe weather threatening. as temperatures still remaining chilly out here in eastern europe. moscow, minus ten only for your high on your saturday. london and paris, still around the freezing mark. if you want to go somewhere warm, go to lisbon. 13 here for your high on your saturday. here's a look at your extended forecast. >>> we'll be back in 30 minutes with more news. from all of us here at nhk world, thanks very much for joining us. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

towards the east, it will be snowing for many parts of the balkans, which means it will be rainfall with a temperature 15 degrees. the northern part of africa, cloudy in algeria and tunisia. we will see some rain showers as well. everyday in algiers at 18 degrees. tunis, mostly cloudy, >> good to have you. the top stories on al jazeera. algerian soldiers have surrounded a gas facility near the libyan border. two people have been killed and gunman are holding 40 people inside. some people are reported to have escaped the facility. french forces have launched a ground offensive against rebel fighters in mali. a spokesman for the rebel group says the two sides are fighting at close range. doris truong nigeria and chad are expected to arrive over the next few hours. -- soldiers from nigeria and chad. chile is no longer flying that the boeing 787 dreamliner after recent problems. boeing maintains it is safe to fly. thousands of protesters in front of pakistan's government, the cleric is holding talks with the government. as of the ruling coalition are negotiating with him after he threatened

instead of shutting their kids or monitoring them as the balkan, why don't you offer them a job? -- model train them as they walked in, why don't you offer them eight -- monitoring and the them as they walked in, why don't you offer them a job? [applause] >> i will ask the professor to ask some specific questions. and then we will get to your questions in about eight or nine minutes. i will ask you to keep your response is brief. >> ok, you will have to bear with me. i am going to go off script for 30 seconds. there is a person in the audience, and i meant to mention her during my keynote. it is someone that you all should try to talk to during a break or during lunch because someone like her should be on this panel. one person missing. it is a public defender. this is someone who worked as a public defender for 19 years in los angeles. she is now director of legal services. now i'm going to embarrass her. her name is ellie miller. there she is. [applause] public defenders are legal ministers. you are. you are part of this picture. ok. i will go back to what i was supposed to be

this is going to be heading toward the balkan peninsula, the southern storm. it's quite warm in the southeast, so a lot of the precipitation is rain for you. by the time the storm arrives on wednesday, a lot of frigid air coming down to the southeast. turning that down to snow in the mountains, with thunderstorms along the coast. all right. let's check out your temperatures for wednesday. minus 6 in stockholm, minus 16 in kiev and minus 5 for the my. athens, minus 15 degrees. and expect to sink a little bit. and 1 degree in london, plenty of snow in the british isles. let's leave you with the extended forecast. >>> people are mourning the loss of a renowned japanese film director. the crowd gathered at a temple in tokyo to say good-bye. oshima died last tuesday of pneumonia. he was 80. about 700 people attended the funeral. he was farewelled with the theme music from "merry christmas mr. lawrence," one of his best known films. the altar was designed in the style of the ceremony, also an oshima film. decorated with about 5,300 white flowers, the favorite hat an

here to the balkans, toward turkey. you will see some severe weather actually. been seeing it. the fuel, the moisture coming in out of the mediterranean, adding with this gusty wind, up to 100 kilometers per hour. heavy snowfall farther out toward the north. temperatures remain on the chilly side. kiev, minus 13. slight warmup in london and paris. 7 and 5 going through your saturday. after the front begins to pass by. here is a look at your extended forecast. >>> we'll be back in 30 minutes with more news. i'm gene otani in tokyo. from all of us here at nhk world, have a great day, wherever you are. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

now the balkans continuing to linger. this will bring gusty winds, 100 kilometer winds. could see strong thunderstorms as it works its way off there towards the eastern mediterranean. your temperatures in athens 16 for your high. to start off your weekend milder in the west in london and paris. that system comes in moving warm air from the south both looking at 11 for your high on your friday. let's take a look over towards japan here first where we have this system pushing overhead. bringing rain across much of the country. seeing showers around tokyo. heavy rain showers and do not be surprised if through the overnight hours some of the higher elevations you see some flyers, snow that rain changes over to snow even in the tokyo metro area. might be a flake or two coming down the system. nothing accumulating. on saturday a break in the activity but then on sunday another system is going to be working its way out of china. first move over corre korea. then working its way into japan. seoul on saturday 3 degrees for your high. beijing at minus 4. japan is the holiday week

the balkans you could see some snow showers. temperatures remain on the chilly side getting up to my us 1 in kiev. moscow minus 9. london and paris lingering here around the freezing mark. here's a look at the extended forecast. >>> japan's empress has attended many concerts over the years but none possibly as meaningful as the recital she attended this week. the empress joined the audience at a recital by a mexican violinist. the event include joint performance with japanese violinist. the two violins were crafted from the pillars of houses that were swept away by the 2011 tsunami. the violins include parts of a pine tree that survived the tsunami and became a symbol of hope. but the tree later died. ♪ 1,000 violinists are taking turns playing the violins in memory of the tsunami victims. so far 115 violinists have performed using the instruments. >>> we'll be back in 30 minutes with more news. i'm gene otani in tokyo.

down here towards the balkans, rain has been going through. you will be seeing rain and snow. this will cause a big problem there. towards athens, it will be mostly cloudy with a lot of rain in the forecast prepared a high temperatures will reach 14 degrees prepar. flooding has been a major situation here over the last few days. we will see clearing. most of the clouds are toward the north. across mozambique, a lot of water standing across the region. 15,000 people have had to be evacuated. the river. the banks in south africa causing flooding. some of the roads are impassable. some of the bridges are out. this will cause a major problem. we do expect to see drier conditions over the next couple days. johannesburg will have a sunny day at 26. >> welcome back. let's recap headlines. and we're getting reports of iraqi at least five protesters have been killed and 40 wounded in scuffles between the army and worshippers near fallujah. the violence began after the police blocked anti-government protesters from entering the city. these are live pictures coming in as crowds gathered

here to the balkans, toward turkey. you will see some severe weather actually. been seeing it. the fuel, the moisture coming in out of the mediterranean, adding with this gusty wind, up to 100 kilometers per hour. heavy snowfall farther out toward the north. temperatures remain on the chilly side. kiev, minus 13. slight warmup in london and paris. 7 and 5 going through your saturday. after the front begins to pass by. here is a look at your extended forecast. >>> we'll be back in 30 minutes with more news. i'm gene otani in tokyo. from all of us here at nhk world, have a great day, wherever you are. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

war crimes crimes against humanity genocide in the balkans if such an institution had not been created on the ad hoc basis by the u.n. security council and had that kind of event unfolded more recently rather than back in the one nine hundred ninety s. i think we would have very much seen that type of dispute being handed over to the i.c.c. so in that case the i.c.c. would have been intervening in a in europe and not just in africa ok but judge the united nations security council particular the western powers. no of course not and what we've already seen from those ad hoc tribunals is that the last thing that they deliver is impartial justice and the notion that somehow well there's nothing really wrong with it or that this is a baby steps towards the final goal is an absurdity i mean we've seen in the i.c.t. why. only the so. have been indicted and convicted and whereas the nato allies are largely been either not been indicted or how do we know are they really there which is now at the end i could let me finish please let me finish at the i.c.c. we have already seen the same thing hap

this is going to be a well-developed low that spreads heavy snow across italy and into the balkan peninsula. further toward the south, and the coast, you will see thunderstorms that could even have hail as well as damaging winds, thunder and lightning. toward the west, this is also going to be some snow, maybe slush and sleet. it should clear up by friday. temperatures as we head into thursday, minus 12. cooling down in stockholm. minus 8 in kiev and not so bad toward the far southeast. toward paris, subzero. minus two for your thursday high. >>> we'll be back in 30 minutes with more news. i'm gene otani in tokyo. from all of us at nhk world, thanks very much for joining us. have a great day, wherever you are.

across the mediterranean is just getting ready to dump a lot of heavy snow across italy and also the balkan peninsula. in behind it there's yet more snow and sleet towards the south across the iberian peninsula, although you will start to see things clearing out by friday. let's take a look at temperatures across europe. minus 9 on wednesday. minus 11 in moscow. minus 6 in kiev. still warm in athens. i think that's going to drop as we see cooler air spill into the southeast. out toward the west too in london with 3 degrees in paris. here's your extended forecast. >>> we'll be back in 30 minutes with more news. i'm gene otani in tokyo. from all of us here at nhk world, thanks for joining us.

finally toward the east, balkans, towards turkey, we had a little break in the rough weather this week but it looks like another system will be developing up here along the coast of the mediterranean. you're even seeing the risk of some severe weather across much of this region. meanwhile, temperatures remain rather chilly in eastern europe. kiev a high of only minus 1. moscow minus 9 accompanied by some snow showers. temperatures still on the mild side in london, paris. but going through the weekend that will drop right off, paris temperatures dropping near the freezing mark by sunday. here's a look at your forecast. >>> we'll be back in 30 minutes with more news. i'm gene otani in tokyo. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

lightning and damaging winds up to about 120 kilometers per hour in the southern portions of the balkans. to the north, 20 centimeters of snowfall out of this as temperatures remain rather chilly off to the west. moscow, minus11. back to london and paris, you're going to be sharing in on the cold temperatures, too. london and paris both at 2 to zero for your high. here's a look at your extended forecast. >>> we'll be back in 30 minutes with more news. with more news. i'm gene otani in tokyo. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

france and looks like public opinion could really shift in relation to the mali intervention or the balkans things to bring sort of their life in paris much preaching to. you i know you vote for the reporter so we will listen to take a listen to that is. i mean at sure it's all calm on the streets of paris but with an escalating military intervention in mali and an algerian hostage crisis in response to it french public opinion is predicted to turn against francois hollande pledged to help the mali government once he's really hit by the the enormity of what they may be taking on in mali there may be a lot of questions then asked about his judgment and a lot of people who are supposedly supporting him now or may very quickly turn around and criticize it's already beginning to happen we've spoken to provisions here who lament the fact that they weren't told in advance that the military offensive was set to take place meanwhile voices in the french media complain of a war with no pictures they say that there's a media blackout and accuse the government of making it intentional journalist surpr

and israel want they want to weaken syria with the possibility of balkanizing their nobel prize nation off their country so in terms of their long term american agenda we go back to the same places no intervention shadow wars and let's have all these countries falling apart from the middle east so censorious asia times correspondent beth escobar thank you it's always a pleasure to speak to you thank you very much. behind me authorities said for a new round of talks with the opposition later this week amid the continuing crackdown on and to regime rallies across the nation this anyone i came has been why do you accuse my rights groups of using tear gas and torture against protesters and as hakim's unless you have a chef who reports even those who try and treat the injured they say they are being victimized. nada dhaif was among a group of doctors who were trying to help the injured during a protest in bahrain she claims that after violently crushing the dissent the or thora to turn their attention to her and her colleagues who were providing first a they deny. health care to the patient

speaker john balkaner agreed to make sandy aid one of the first orders of business for the new congress. congress. -- speaker john boehner agreed to make sandy aid one of the first orders of business for the new congress. >> the bottom line is between saturday morning and january 15th, there are two votes that will bring in the money absolutely necessary no new york, new jersey and connecticut. as far as i'm concerned, it was an extremely positive meeting. >> reporter: as we said, one vote on friday and then another vote coming up on january 15th. those should be relatively easy compared to what lies ahead. not only will these new members and the old members as well have to deal with the sequestration and also the debt limit that is also coming up as well, there will also be gun control measures after that horrible shooting in newtown, connecticut. those will be introduced in the senate today. back to you guys. >> thank you. >>> the local delegation to congress contains two new members, one a political newcomer, the other a familiar face. democrat john delaney is the new representative

back when i was serving in the balkans in the late 90s all of our embassyies and installations we hadines all over the place, tons of security. we all got danger pay. that was a much less hostile situation although it was an unstable situation nothing compared to libya, and not the same kind of anti-american rancor on the ground. it should have been much more secure. i think it's deplorable and the survivors of the victims and the american public deserve an explanation how that turned into a security debacle, and frankly our embassyies require better security, but that costs money though. it will be curious to ask the republicans to put the money up for that. >> cenk: we know the answer. they cut that particular budget. the answer is no. they're not willing to pay for the security but if something goes wrong they're willing to blame somebody else. that all shocks everybody. who dropped the ball. it goes to the substance of what we're discussing here. michael, what do you think went wrong here? who should have acted and didn't? >> well, the testimony i would have wanted to see is gener

. >> reporter: and their ire has calmed down somewhat now that speaker john balkaner has scheduled a flood insurance portion of the bill friday. the rest of the relief package minus the pork according to house leadership, will come up on january 15th. then this t. has to go to the senate for a-- then had has to go to the senate for aproven. that should be easy given what else is coming ahead. we have got not only spending cuts. the sequestration measures that need to be taken care of and the debt ceiling, those are coming up in just a matter of week with both sides signaling they are digging in for quite a showdown. that is the latest from capitol hill. i'm melanie alnwick. >>> also on the hill today, d.c.'s delegate to congress will demand a right to vote in something called the committee of the whole in the house of representatives. that would let delegate eleanor holmes norton vote on many matters on the house floor but not on final legislation. norton was granted the right to vote in the committee of the whole back in the early '90s. >>> a check of this morning's other top storie

my time is almost over but i wanted to raise a final point about the western balkans. with so much conflict going and on across the middle east and africa, we forget that not long ago, we were involved in the conflict in the western balkans come and there has been tremendous progress that has been made in that area. but we are still have a stalemate in macedonia over the main issue. we have the dialogue that has not been completed, and we have those countries that aspired to ascendancy and to the e.u., and i would just urge you that further progress in that area is going to continue to require american leadership, and i hope that we will continue to work in the region to ensure that they continue to make progress. >> we will, senator. and i just want to thank you for your leadership of the subcommittee. you've been absolutely terrific and i look forward to working with you. thanks. >> senator johnson. >> thank you, mr. chairman. senator, i appreciate your thoughtful opening statement and your thoughtful response to these questions. i have a great deal of respect for yo

north dark alone you have -- north dakota alone you have four billion barrels of reserve based on the balkanth all the new supply coming on board isn't that going to affect the price and push it down? >> it could but we don't think it will be this year. basically what you have in the developed world is production is falling, not rising. the u.s. is one of the very few areas, that and canada, where you have production moving up. most production is moving down. look at the two large suppliers over the last couple of decades, norway, mexico, they keep falling. so what you have, when you put the whole pie together in the world, what you're seeing productionwise is flat production in the world. if we go back to 2000, you've had oil production in the world has gone up by 18%. gdp in the world has gone up by more than 53%. david: right. >> you can't have gdp which is demand, outstripping supply, that 18% by that amount and not have rising prices. david: a lot is what happened in china because you have hundreds of millions of people coming into the middle class, demanding more products and goods, et

the universe wasn't as balkanized as it is now.ho wants to see "nightline" and doesn't want to stay up that late to watch it can watch it on their computers the next day. it wasn't the same thing ten years ago. so, i think, also, there's a lot more choices. and if you don't want to watch "nightline" and you want to watch another news show, there will be one somewhere. it's a different show, too. don't forget. in 2002, it was koppel. >> exactly. >> you don't have the stature. >> i have to give credit to sinth cynthia mcfadden and it's tough to put on a news show at 11:35 and beat the two biggest comedians and "nightline" was able to do that, but the program didn't make itself indispensable because more of a variety show where they would do light and more serious topics. >> very much so. >> and the reason abc musked it out of the time period was abc is seeking some sort of parody from 11:35 with a one-hour comedy show to control a lot more variety of advertisers and sponsors than a news program that only lasts a half an hour. just so

we have a balkans network, we have a swahili network, a turkish network.ave children's programming and sports. this is a keynd very much needed part for that expansion. >> but you're best known -- or co-best known, if that's a word, for the arabic language service and people who watch this very closely, who've made academic study of it say there are two kettles of fish, al jazeera in arabic and al jazeera in english. how are they different and how would you explain that to an american who has heard a lot of things that haven't been complementary about the arabic language service. >> the difference is who's your audience. to be honesit's targeted towards an audience and the coverage we rely on arabic for some material, too, they rely on us, we share some facilities. editorially we have different takes on these. we're doing things for the americans, they're doing things for more -- than middle east. it's the -- the allegations that we're corrupted in our views, everybody -- i always hear this from people never directly but it's also sort of referred but neve

really syria and it's stunningly reminds me of the balkans from the 90's. there is an internal conflict which is really horrendous. more than 40 or 50,000 syrians have died in it. i think where it is different in this respect nobody, not even the syrians want the united states to invade on the ground and take over syria and administer it. that isn't the issue in the case of syria. the issue in the case of syria is whether the united states should supply weapons to factions that are fighting the regime that are aligned with our interests or not and if we don't do this point the more extreme elements in the region support for radical islamic rebels who are fighting and our state is that we want people to prevail who are closer to our interests and the people closer to the muslim interest and yet we are not supporting them materially and i think there are reports from syria that say there is a fair amount of resentment. one fact i would like to point out as al qaeda in iraq, which is initially at of al qaeda central and was a big threat in iraq is now heavily

and an equal number of times, the balkans before that.bsolutely incredible. -- >> we wanted to take you live over to the washington d.c. convention center for president obama. >> you look outstanding, but your dates look better. i just want to point this out. i will not give a long speech, but i really want to come down and express at the extraordinary gratitude as commander-in-chief, and more importantly, the thanks for all the american people. i want to start by thanking the outstanding leaders that are here. our hosts, our advisers for all five branches of the military. [applause] the chairmen of the joint chiefs of staff, who promised to sing some time tonight. the vice chairman, zero are outstanding members of the joint chiefs. our secretary of veterans affairs who is here. and we are honored to be joined by truly extraordinary americans. our wounded warriors that inspire us. enlisted men and women and officers are the backbone of the military. they are amazing military families. we will spend with you always. the members of the lege

we have a balkans network, we have a swahili network, a turkish network.e children's programming and sports. this is a key and very much needed part for that expansion. >> but you're best known -- or co-best known, if that's a word for the arabic language service and people who watch this very closely who've made academic study of it say there are two kettles of fish, al jazeera in arabic and al jazeera in english. how are they different and how would you explain that to an american who has heard a lot of things that haven't been complementary about the arabic language service. >> the difference is who's your audience. to be honest it's targeted towards an audience and the coverage we rely on arabic for some material too they rely on us, we share some facilities. editorially we have different takes on these. we're doing things for the americans, they're doing things for more -- than middle east. it's the -- the allegations that we're corrupted in our views everybody -- i always hear this from people never directly but it's also sort of referred but never r