cadre is pledging to continue the protest until ashraf is arrested. the government appears isolated. some sources allege the protests have the covert support of the military. speculation is rising you that the supreme court around military are colluding to try and top the government. >>> japanese prime minister shinzo abe is on a tour of southeast asia. the newly elected leader is visiting vietnam, thailand and indonesia to strengthen ties in one of the world's economic regions. japanese companies are boosting investments here amid a territorial spam. as nhk world reports, they face a constant struggle to remain competiti competitive. >> reporter: indonesia is booming. commit is driving more than 6% a year. no wonder japanese firms i want to do business here. this sewing fact industry -- a japanesemaker of sporting gear. 60,000 leather gloves for golf and baseball are produced here every month. 12 years ago, the company chose indonesia, where labor costs were lower than in china. >> translator: making gloves requires a lot of work. so keeping labor co

raja pervez ashraf is accused of corruption in deals to build new power plants when he was a water and power minister. the court has given 24 hours to arrest him along with 16 other people to. this decision comes as tens of thousands of protesters rallied against corruption of the leader.n >> we are here in front of the parliamentary house just to save our country from collapse and from complete ruin. we need substantial changes in our democratic, political, and electoral systems. we ought to put democracy in place. >> let's go to our correspondent in the pakistani capital. kamal, why is the supreme court issuing this arrest warrant now? >> a lot of people are saying it is because it is a mere coincidence, because the court was already deliberating on that case. the court therefore decided it was time to issue the arrest warrants. despite all that, it does not mean -- the prime minister can be arrested. the fact that the case involves him when he was the country pose electricity minister, therefore the immunity will not work for him. so he will be arrested in the next 24 hours. the sit

the order relates to charges ashraf took bribes when he was minister for water and power. meanwhile, tens of thousands of anti-government protesters remain camped out near parliament. protest leader and muslim cleric mohammad kadri has labeled the government a bunch of thieves and demanded they resign. >> translator: god heard our prayers and has saved us. we have pledged ourself to kodri. we won't turn back until we achieve change. we won't go back even if it rains, even if they spray us with teargas or bullets. >> some sources allege the protests have the covert support of the military. speculation is rife that military chiefs are colluding with the supreme court to topple the government. >>> residents of jakarta woke up on thursday to find the city flooded. torrential rain paralyzed parts of the indonesian capital. more than 15,000 people were forced from their homes. flooding affected swaths of jakarta and its satellite cities. authorities say at least five people were killed. downtown houses and offices and schools were inundated. streets were gridlocked and many busi

the supreme court has ordered the rest of the prime minister ashraf, and he is not appeared in court yet? >> he was at the prime minister's auhouse. the opposition, which also met yesterday in lahore, everybody will now be demanding the dismissal of the government or dissolve parliament, to bring in a caretaker government to make sure the elections are free and fair and that there's some sort of electoral reform to ensure that those in parliament will not return. return. if a canadian cleric can come to islamabad and accomplish this, who's to say others could not bring their supporters as well? >> the indonesian capital is at a standstill because of flooding in much of central jakarta. it has been deluged by the heaviest rain in five years. thousands of people affected. our correspondent has more. >> the city of more than 10 million people has turned into a lake. this is the financial heart of jakarta, the place where millions go to work every day. the flooding has reached a new level. in more than 15 years, never had the city center flooded like this. jakarta has come to a standstil

court's just recently has given a verdict of the arrests once of the prime minister roger pervious ashraf on a corruption cases and it is supposed he supposed to be appearing before the courts to morrow so it is the development of the political development the decisions are taking place and very quickly and very unexpectedly actually observer believe that whatever the supreme court has taken it is a political move from the government maybe the. puts their prime minister is as. scapegoats. called it's to save the situation or to reduce the amount of anger and the amount of the protests and the. three in this say regions. now the clerical mohammad of qatar has given the government an ultimatum to disband a parliament or no order is followers to carry out acts of civil disobedience but political analyst says the system now but a chief very little. time when it is in the middle of a very sensitive insurgency and people have been known to take advantage of the cage and i don't know whether it is a very much a people have been movement because americans are merging now for example the supreme c

adding to the political crisis the supreme court has ordered that the prime minister prime minister ashraf appears in court in connection with an alleged corruption case. mohali who's a former officer of the pakistani air force and a journalist he says a change of power may actually not be that far away. people are likening it to the hairy square and so many other things but my personal feeling is that in all those uprisings there was not one single leader around whom people could rally but over here they have in the shape of a llama to handle karzai but there have been actually two or three different theories about the background of this man some said that because of his canadian nationality and because of his longest stay in the west he may have been motivated as well as funded by the vest there is another theory that he may be is proof of the military the fact is that whoever has launched him this particular person has done his homework because he the man has captured the spirit and imagination of a people who had the feeling that they were downtrodden they were neglected and david driv

prime minister roger ashraf, no longer whiter than white and now facing arrest for allegedly taking millions from contract kickbacks. and this was the preacher breaking the news. dr. mohammed l. cadry a moderate sufi claire i can in a pin striped suit. his message of change is to dangerous to him that it comes from inside a bullet-proof metal box. >> this is peaceful revolution. this is democratic revolution. >> in order to... reporter: earlier armed police fired tear gas and light ammunition into the air to keep protestors back from the center of power. afterwards dr. cadry showed the spent cartridges from behind his bullet-proof glass. he's clearly relishing the fight. this claire i can said he never parliament to save pakistan from collapse but it's a mark of how weak this government is that a crowd of thousands of people (inaudible) from office. but the prime minister spokesman claims the scales of justice have been rigged, that the court is in cahoots the army in a plot to topple pakistan's government. and we don't know if these hundreds of soldiers still defending that government tonig