local time in bangkok. >>> we will keep you updated on this story. at the top of the hour is newsroom tokyo. more to come here on nhk world so stay with us. w genie: around the world, i'm genie godula. views are today's main story spirit hungary restarts real traffic in budapest but refuses protestingy migrants outside back in. this after thousands boarded trains for austria and germany monday despite not having visas. a second foreign man is arrested , linked to last month's deadly bombing at a shrine in bangkok. the motive for the blast that killed 20 is still unknown. new satellite pictures of syria confirm that the asian temple of bel in palmyra has been destroyed by the islamic state group.

it was extremely deserted in the streets of bangkok. the shrine itself was the target of the bombing. , and arowded like before sense of calm went back into the streets with patrols in the streets. for keeping usu up-to-date on the investigation as to who was behind that bombing two weeks ago. u.s. president barack obama is calling for urgent action on climate change. his three-day visit to alaska and the region around it is aimed at showcasing melting glaciers and rising sea levels. first triplude the ever by an american president to an art -- to the arctic circle. president obama: the fact's climate is changing faster than our efforts to address it. -- the fact is climate is changing faster than our efforts to address it. that, ladies and gentlemen, must change. we are not acting fast enough. i have come here today as the leader of the world's largest economy and its second-largest emitter to say that the united states recognizes our role in creating this problem, and we embrace our responsibility to help solve it. genie: the u.s. pre

forgeries of official documents are not unusual in bangkok. the owner of this shop showed us samples of counter fit driver's licenses and student i.d. cards. >> reporter: one of the suspect s police to enter thailand. the widespread use of fake passports and lax border security made it easier for the group to carry out its activities. investigators haven on how the raised funds. from february last year to march this year, about $40,000 was remitted to the suspects from foreign sources. these included accounts held by turkish people. the number of uighurs entering thailand illegally has surged since 2011. that's when the chinese government stepped up its repressive policy against the minority. many uighurs travel to turkey through central asia. but they began using southeast asian routes after the crackdown was tightened. police suspect the group held uighurs to illegally enter turkey with fake passports. they say the group's members harbor a grudge against the thai authorities for obstructing their operations and that's why they carried out th

authorities have been investing in rail projects in bangkok to alleviate traffic congestion.hey say the thing that is difficult is air-conditioning to provide relief from the tropical heat. the 23 kilometer stretch of track runs through the suburb and cuts through central bangkok and end in the subway system. >> translator: i hope this will be a big step towards exporting more japanese trains overseas. >> the three car trains will be the first from japan to run on bangkok's urban rail system. >>> authorities in china are cracking down on christianity. they are tearing down crosses and detaining chstian lawyers. the move com as chinese adopt the faith taking the number of followers to an estimated100 million giving the church more members than the ruling communist party. how are church goers in znejiang province stand their ground. >> reporter: authoties in th city are breaking into this church. they said the compound win, and they arrested members of the congregation, then they take away the cross by force. we built the church, for instance, d where the cross stood remains ba

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now the bomb blast in bangkok took place at a very popular shrine in downtown bangkok. locals and tourists alike were killed. it was the single worst attack in thailand. tie police had several suspects in their custody, they have yet to establish a motive and no one yet has claimed responsibility for the attack. >> it's a week before greece's general election. the former prime minister asex his tsipras is neck and neck with his rifle. it come come down to undecided voters and an untimed debate on monday. we have more in athens. >> looking sadder and wiser, tsipras is still presenting himself as the alternative to the socialists that he defeated before. >> we will not allow the old, who the people threw out the door in january, to come back in the window. >> this is january's promise, end austerity, restructure the debt and resolutione and lessen the burden on the poor. now it said that it will do a better job. many greek voters are humbled, disappointed. >> there was never an alternative. europe really doesn't want sol dare glisolidarity. >> there is no alternative. >>

they say there's no link to last month's bomb attacks in central bangkok. more than 6,500 people have died in terrorist attacks in southern thailand over the past 11 years. most thais are buddhist, but many people in the three southern provinces practice islam and some fiercely oppose the government's assimilation policy. >>> fierce fighting has been raging in afghanistan between government troops and taliban insurgents. but the power of the islamic state group is now growing in the country. what's happening there? well, nhk world reports. >> reporter: more and more people are fleeing from villages near the border with pakistan into the city of jalalabad in eastern afghanistan. they are escaping from islamic state militants. and estimated 13,000 households have been displaced in the past six months. >> translator: islamic state militants attacked our neighbors' homes and took everything. >> translator: a bombing by the islamic state group killed our village leader so we fled here. >> reporter: this video was supposedly filmed by the islamic state group in e

are extremely low because bangkok has wonderful air quality precautions?ecause of rain in the region and vast amounts of rain still coming down from what has been a pretty active weather system remains a tropical storm vanco and looking at the forecast you want rain and strong winds. circulation is not particularly strong around in region and singapore no great changes and showers few and fair between and tie land plenty more rain coming down heading through saturday and getting through sunday and you can see a few more showers breaking out and perhaps one or two affecting singapore and i doubt it but it should be moving away from bangkok and the sun will come out here and the air quality is going to be absolutely sparkling. >> richard thanks and midway in the news hour and anchor against austerity measures leads to the biggest problem in years. a mecca for doors and muslims arrive in saudi arabia and ask if religious santaty has been sacrificed. boxing makes a rare public occurrence and we will tell you why a little later in sports. ♪ ♪ hello again and go

the bomb blast in bangkok took place as a very popular shrine in documents bangkok, locals and touristsere killed. it's the single worst bomb attack in thailand. thai police also have several suspects in custody but have yet to establish a motorcycle and i have no one has claimed responsibility for the tack. >>> now, one of the great man-made wonders of the world is slowly disintegrating. 30% of the great wall of china no longer exists because of its exposure to the elements or torrists chipping away a souvenir. we went to northern china to see what's being done to save wall. >> reporter: it's a vegetable garden that is been in her family if decades the crop have his been protected from the elements by the naturally occurring stone available in this part of northern china. yet not all of the stone used here comes from the quarry, some came from the great wall of china. her ancestors took the great wall's cut stone build their holes, in some cases more than 100 years ago. >> translator: we are happy to give back any part of the wall if asked. you have to remember they were so poor back t

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thailand's prime minister says the main suspect in last month's deadly bangkok bombing and this was onr and the second arrest in connection with the attack on august 17th. the u.s. president barack obama says climate change is a problem that needs to be addressed now. he made the comments at the start of a three-day visit to alaska. patty calhane has details. >> reporter: u.s. president barack obama is dragging the national spotlight to a place it rarely goes, the fair northern state of alaska. >> over the last 60 years alaska has warmed twice as fast as the rest of the united states. last year was alaska's warmest year on record. just as it was for the rest of the world. and the impacts here are very real. >> reporter: he will tour melting graciers and go to towns losing their beaches and deal with climate change and reach the third of americans who tell pollsters they simply don't believe climate change is real but this trip has environmental activists calling the president a hypocrite because he recently approved drilling for oil in the very place he is touring and the administratio

the bottom blast in bangkok took place at the very popular shrine in downtown bangkok. locals and tourists alike were killed. it is the single worst bomb attack in thailand. thai police have several suspects in their custody but have yet to establish a motive and no one has claimed that responsibility for attack. >> state of emergency's been declared in indonesia due to a thick haze from forest fires. firefighters have been battling to put the blaze out. it is affecting air quality in singapore. large tracts of land have been cleared using illegal slash and burn method to make way for palm oil and paper plantations. >> everton is here now with the weather. what the indonesians need is rain, isn't it? we have got the possibility of one or two showers into northern as i am metra, not going to help the situation. that is tuesday's picture, maybe creeping a little further southeast as we go on through wednesday. they will be few and far between and it will stay largely dry. here it will stay absolutely bone dry. all of the energy is north of the equator, where things are lo

. >>> three people have been arrested in malaysia, in connection with the bombing of a shrine in bangkok last month. picked up after a tipoff from the thai authorities. 20 people were killed by the bombing in central bangkok in august. >> sri lanka's prime minister has visited for the first time in his office, manel fernandez has reported. >> these fishermen in northern sri lanka say their trailers come back almost empty. >> we are at a loss. >> thousands of fishermen expected bumper catches of fish. instead they encountered these, indian trawlers, sometimes up to 3,000 a night, illegally fishing in sri lankan waters. charges of attacking fishermen india denies. last of decisive action is aggravating the problem. >> translator: if it was into the waters by accident our fishermen are ousted. scores of indian trawlers come daily and take away our resources and no one says that's anything. >> reporter: the reality that has been discussed before with little progress. fishermen say that are catch has fallen drastically. a lack of addressing the issue, the prime ministership will bring some re

thailand's prime minister says the main suspect in the bangkok bombing has been arrested. >>> and i'lle all the sports including the latest from the u.s. open plus transferred deadline doubts and the move from manchester united to madrid hangs in the balance. ♪ let's start in hungry where hundreds of refugees and migrants are being barred from the capitol's main train station and want to get on trains to take them to austria and germany. [chanting] more than a thousand people are now gathered outside the station with security guards blocking the entrances. hungry has been criticized by other european governments for its treatment of refugees and building a fence along the border with serbia to stop people from crossing over. okay, that is the scene live outside budapest's main train station. our correspondent is there as well, among them and he has been telling us that there are perhaps 3,000 people. the mood has been pretty calm. but people from time to time are joining together and chanting. they want out, they want to be allowed into germany. there are security agents around, keepin

. >> a group of japanese is holding a study seminar in bangkok to mark 70 years since the end of worldi. the organizer wanted people to know how things were in thailand during the war. one of the participants is this 80-year-old, a professional photographer based in the thai capital. he was born in 1931, on the southern island of phuket. his father was japanese. his mother thai. at the time, the japanese military saw thailand as a staging post for its strategy in southeast asia. seto said he underwent training as a child soldier. >> translator: i was told to use a spear or whatever was available to stab enemies to death if i ran out of live ammunition. i wasn't afraid of dying. >> reporter: after the end of the war when seto was 20, he discovered something shocking. it turned out he was stateless. his birth with the local japanese consulate. seto claimed japanese nationality. he submitted documents saying he was a child soldier with the defunct japanese military. but officials rejected his request. they said his name was absent from his father's family registry. seto says he felt aband

more from bangkok. >> we only know what we're being authorities.hai they intercepted this man as he triedo cross the border illegally into cambodia three kilometers from a regular crossing point. beyond that, they are saying they are not telling us his nationality, though there is a copy of the passport being circulated that appears to come from official forces that is a chinese passport. be very sensitive to the authorities, because of all of the possible theories that have been put out by the motivation of the bombing, is a possible retaliation for a thailand deportation of more inn 100 people back to china july. it is widely condemned by human rights groups, one that provoked angry protest in turkey where there is a lot of them -- and a lot of sympathy. embarrassing for the thai government and the chinese. six chinese and hong kong national died in the bombing. that is something that they have to handle with sensitivities. they have issued three more arrest warrants. one of them appears to be a turkish man. they showed a turkish identity card. woman thato a thai has been living in turk

foreign suspect arrested last week has confessed to his links to the deadly august 17th bomb attack in bangkok. the man accompanied police on tuesday as they searched an apartment for further evidence in the bombings that killed 20 people. the man was arrested near the cambodian border on tuesday last week. police said he has admitted to making and supplying bombs to another man. police say the suspect told them the man caught on surveillance video at the blast site is the person he gave a backpack to. shortly after handing it over, the bomb went off. and they say that suspect still hasn't been caught. >>> two people have been arrested in connection with the attack. police suspect ten more -- ten more -- rather, more than ten others were involved. >>> thousands of migrants and refugees are streaming into hungary from serbia on a daily basis. and they're keeping police busy. they're mainly from the middle east and are seeking asylum in germany and other european countries. their numbers total 1,000 to 3,000 a day. the southern village bordering serbia saw more people arriving on tuesday. police

police raided two apartments in bangkok and found bomb making materials in both. no group has yet claimed responsibility for the blast, the worst attack on thai soil. anchor: barack obama is in alaska, becoming the first sitting president to visit the u.s. arctic. he is warning of catastrophic consequences unless the world follows america's lead and takes sweeping cuts to greenhouse gases. at the same time, he is pushing for the government to buy a new heavy icebreaker amid worries they are losing to russia for shipping and mining and drilling in the region. i am joined by a managing partner in critical risk, the consulting group polar risk. let's talk more about what is at stake in terms of melting ice, trade routes, etc.. >> of course, you have openings in the arctic. the northern passage. but you have the transpolar routes that could become used in the next 40 years. and a lot of mining, underground resources, hydrocarbon resources as well. another thing, links to geopolitics, you need to, you have a rivalry as to who owns the north pole. the u.s. does not clai

. >>> a second arrest warrant has now been issued in connection with last month's bombing in bangkok. the bombing killed 20 people and injured about 100 others. the latest suspect is a turkish man. investigators say his fingerprints match the one's found on the bottle of bomb- making material in bangkok last weekend. the man is the husband after thai woman who's already been linked to the bombing. investigators say she had rented an apartment where the bomb-making materials were found. >>> there are some shocking allegations involving two former day care workers in new jersey this afternoon. investigators say they encouraged children to fight each other on the playground. prosecutors say the workers used the term "fight club" from the woman. >> about a dozen children, boys and girls, between the ages of 4 and 6, just fighting, throwing each other to the ground, hitting each other. >> both workers have been fired. the prosecutor said they did it, note, for pure pleasure. >>> howard is up next with our forecast. >> andrea, still feeling like mid summer but some fall weather is knocking

the bomb blast took place at the very popular shrine in downtown bangkok.als and tourists alike were killed. the single worst bomb attack in thailand. thai police have several suspects in their custody but they have yet to establish a motive and no one has claimed responsibility for the attack. nepal's government is facing renewed criticism for the slow response to the april earthquake. hundreds of thousands are living in makeshift shelters worried about how they have survived. millions of dollars are pledged to help the vict ims. very little has been spent. a report now. >> some tarpolian sheets and a handful of branches to hold the sheets. this community forest has been transformed into a temporary shelter. people from surrounding villages walked for days to come here. more than 300 families displaced by april's earthquake are living here walking 13 hours from the village to get here. >> i have a family of nine. my family is back in the village living under the tarp along with my lifestock. don't have food or mattress or blankets. have blocked all roads t

. >> i'm regarding from inside thailand's parliament in bangkok, where a vote has seen the country's political uncertainty extended. >> thousands still waiting to end their desperate journey to europe and escape war and persecution. this is the worst refugee crisis since world war ii. many are at the border between hungary and austria, and for days kept in hungary, but now allowed to go through. there are thousands of others waiting to make that trip. near the southern border with serbia, police are moving them into a new transit camp and say they will seal the area with a high fence. for many, the perilous trip is now over. we have this report from munich. >> destination, he were something knee, another train carrying refugees pulls into munich's central station. men, women and children tumble out. many escaped the civil war in syria. even the youngest gets a warm welcome from a volunteer. the refugees appeared weary as they made their way under police escort to a reception area. we asked how they felt to be in germany. >> thank god, we are in a country as developed as germany. >> t

reports now from bangkok. >> this is a common event. they like to bring suspects back to the scene of the crime. on this occasion, obviously, it is very high profile situation, so very high security, and a large media constituent here. because the person they have brought back to this building is mira foreign man picked up on the border last week. reportedly in position of a chinese passport. now he was arrested in connection, with the bombing at the shrine in the heart of the city. since then, he has according to police, confessed to being in possession of illegal explosives, and also to actually constructing the bomb that was left at the shrine. be uh the police don't think that he was the man who actually placed it inside the grounds of the slipe. so, they have brought him here to this apartment block on the outskirts of the capitol city. because they say they have presence sick evidence that links him to an apartment here. that had earlier been raided by the police, and another foreign man was arrested. there was also bomb making eq

thai police have taken a suspect in last month's bangkok bombing to their investigation and police sayadmitted to a charge of possessing explosives but has not thought to have planted the bomb that killed 20 people last month and wayne hay is our correspondent in bangkok. >> reporter: a common event for thai police and like to bring suspects back to the scene of the crime. on this occasion obviously it's a very high profile situation and very high security and large media contingent here too because the person they brought back to this apartment building is this foreign man picked up on the thai-cambodia border last week reportedly in possession of a chinese passport and he was arrested in connection with the bombing at the shrine in the heart of the city. since then he has according to police confessed to being in possession of illegal explosives and also to actually constructing the bomb that was left at the shrine. but the police don't think he was the man who actually placed it inside the grounds of the shrine so they have brought him here to this apartment block on the outskirts o

this man was arrested six days ago in a bangkok suburb with what police say was bomb-making equipmentdna and that of another suspect do not match samples from the person the police think is the bomber. >>> an unprecedented number of shark attacks off australia's east coast have reignited a debate over whether culling is the only way to make waters safe for swimmers. the new south wales say government is reviewing new control measures after 14 attacks between sydney and brisbane over the past year. in the latest incidents a man was knocked off his surfboard by a shark and then mauled. andrew thomas reports now from new south wales. >> reporter: on the morning of july 31st, just 20 meters from shore former boxer case was mauled by a great white shark. sat on his surfboard with the shark trying to rip off his leg, he imagined to fight back. >> i went who can, who can, who can, four files. >> reporter: and it worked. >> it worked. >> reporter: but pen seconds you reckon he was latched on. >> i reckon the whole wing was 10 seconds, yeah. >> reporter: he lost so much blood he almost died. h

al jazeera, bangkok. >> joining us from seoul is a political commentator. thanks for being with us on al jazeera. given the fact that those who actually wrote the constitution were chosen by the military, the leaders effectively, why would it be rejected? >> i think your report is correct to say that it is suspicious, that it is a delaying game. the bottom line is this delaying came has come to conclusion that it will turn out this way due to several last minute factors that came in. the junta itself realized that the situation right now is less stable than it expected three or four months ago. one of the examples of how unstable the situation in thailand could be, the bombing incidents in thailand where investigation is starting to reveal that perhaps, perhaps, we don't know for sure, but perhaps it has something to do with the miscalculated actions by the junta to repatriate mike grants back to china. the economy is asia is not doing that good and also the people have come out strongly against at least the politicians themselves strongly against the draft

wayne reports from bangkok. >> reporter: in military detention this thai journalist is still speakingd. >> i am very cautious in alarm but at the same time i think we need to inform the world and the public as to what is going on. >> reporter: through his newspaper columns and on social media he has condemned the army's decision to over throw a democratically elected government last year. it was the second time he has been taken for so called attitude adjustment and if the criticism continues he could be charged with sedition. >> i think they are aiming at creating a climate of fear would people just just cooperate and exercise self censorship. >> reporter: freedom of speech and dissent what's been curtailed since the coup and they rejected a draft constitution earlier this month and means the process has to start again. that prompted allegations the government or national council for peace an order was deliberately trying to delay elections which now won't happen until the middle of 2017, being the prime minister retired general it will be thailand's longest serving military leader s

wayne hey, al jazeera, bangkok. >>> indonesia deployed 1600 soldiers to put out fires which have spreadmoke across north asia with water dropping and caused by the illegal slashing and burning of forest during the dry season and set to clear land for farming and palm oil plantations. those fires cause a thick smog that spread over neighboring countries and florence reports from kuala-lumpur. >> reporter: quality in malaysia and a cloud seeding operation, rain and change in wind direction helped dispurse some pollutants in the air and improved enough of schools shut in several states have been allowed to reopen and thick cloud of smoke or haze is caused by open burning in indonesia where they used it to clear it for farming or plantation use and it's illegal but enforcement is weak and this is a problem that not only effects indonesia but neighbors and thousands of people complain of respiratory difficulties, visibility reduced to the extent flights are sometimes delayed or cancels and even talks that this week's formula one race could be affected and indonesia had talks with the countri

this man was arrested six days ago in a bangkok suburb. that of another suspect do not much samples from the person the police think is the bomber. 10s of thousands of israel i students missed the start of the new school year, christian schools have launched strikes to protest against deep budget cuts, they argue a decrease is being used to force cristal schools in to the state system. scott heidler reports from israel. >> reporter: student out frosting when they should be studying. hundreds of christian school students and their parents took to the streets in a community between jerusalem and tel aviv. it's part of a growing protest movement against the israeli government's decision to slash funding for christian schools that have 33,000 students. her two sons are at a christian school the entirely family was out protesting. >> there are systematic policies against christian schools, their aim is to shutdown the schools. they wouldn't have done all of these cut back fist that wasn't the case. what should i do with my children if the schoo

for the first time we're seeing the main suspect connected to the bombing of a shrine in bangkok last saturday. police paraded him for cameras today. police say adem karotic is responsible for the explosion that killed 20 people and injured 130 others back on august 17th. investigators say he had more than 200 fake turkish passports as well as bomb making equipment. >>> marriage licenses now being issued to all couples in rowan county, kentucky. deputy clerks are now agreeing to obey a judge's order to issue those licenses even to same sex couples all while the county clerk is in jail for contempt. jamie yuccas has the latest from kentucky. [ chanting ] >> reporter: this is the sixth time james yates and william smith jr. tried to get a marriage license in rowan county, kentucky. >> you'll sign here, william will sign here for me okay? >> reporter: friday they finally got one. yates and smith are the first same sex couple to come here since a judge jailed county clerk kim davis for refusing to comply with his order. >> did you think you'd be the first couple today? >> no. i thought --

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this man was arrested six days ago in bangkok suburb with what police say was bomb-make equipment. that of another suspect do not match samples from the person the police think is the bomber. they saw him on a surveillance camera leaching a backpack minutes before the explosion, 20 people were killed at the shrine last month. >>> now more than 70 years since the end of the second world war. the number of surviving veterans continues to dwindle. but the youngest in their late 80s. the records of prisoners are war now now being preserved for future generation on his the i want knelt. simon mcgregor wood has more. >> the royal army medical core, i would say it's pretty safe to say this is you. >> reporter: from friday, millions will be able do what dr. bill franklin is doing. looking up his prisoner of war record online. now 103. he was impressed by the japanese in singapore from 1942 to 1945. he became an imminent pioneer? the study and treatment of allergies. 70 years on bears no grudge. >> i was having a fight with my twin brother and i said i hated him. i was told there and then y

now, the bomb blast in bangkok was at a very popular shrine in bangkok and locals and tourists aliket's the single wor single worst bomb attack and they have several in their custody and yet to establish a motive and no one claimed responsibility for the attack. >>> still to come on al jazeera we will have all the sport for you and where djokovic among the great and that is coming up, after the break. ♪ ♪ welcome back, the largest north american auto workers union is negotiating a contract with the big three, gm, chrysler and ford and expected to be contentious and they had to give ground in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis and now all three of the companies are profitable and john has more. >> reporter: these are brighter days for the motor city, detroit is out of bankruptcy as are chrysler and general motors and the city is rebuilding and selling more cars than it has in years, union auto workers now negotiating with gm and chrysler and ford want a piece of that prosperi prosperity. here at headquarters where some negotiations are taking place some workers have not seen a

one day in bangkok that snap your neck. ineck.rous bungee fail as the crew was filming a commercial and someone strapped the wrong link bungee on to some poor bastard who was supposed to spring back into the air like a rubber ball. instead she plowed into the water face 1st. there she goes again. that is not pretty. she only passed out for a couple seconds. there was about right there. yeah, she passedyeah, she passed out because she smacked her face on something that felt like concrete, got a nose enema and a concussion. although i still might visit that brothel. you know, for research. topic number three, recently heartwarming footage surfaced of a young man and a gorilla bombing over his cell phone at the zoo illustrating the close bond between mankind and her closest simulated relatives. look for that this position. the gorilla peers into the cellular world of his new homo sapiens friend. zero, my gosh. it was tender. now i've got a keeper. that is a winner. swipe right. she is hot. could it be? our other closest relative. tha

the bomb blast in bangkok took place at overy popular shrine in downtown bangkok. locals and tourists were killed. thai police also have several suspects in their custody but they have yet to establish omotive and no one has claimed responsibility for the attack. >> florence looi reporting from kuala lumpur. >>> palestinians and israeli police skirmish at the al-aqsa mosque, the mosque is part of a compound revered by muslims and jews. this is the second day muc of te most recent conflict there. today jordan's king abdalla warned israel that further provocation would damage ties between two countries. >>> also issues between venezuela and colombia are growing, after accusations by the venezuelan military. two military planes crossed into colombian air space on saturday around another on sunday. venezuelan pilot says he was crossing the border because of bad weather but failed to ask permission as required. president maduro of venezuela accused colombian paramilitary of. >> andrew thomas reports on the shift in power down under in australia. >> the result was close

police in bangkok said they have arrested a key suspect in the bombing of a popular shrine. now looking for three additional men suspected of being involved in the attack that killed 20 people. ian williams is in beijing. how big of a breakthrough is this? >> good morning, jose. well, the thai authorities are saying the second suspect they have arrested is an important figure in the network they believe was responsible for that bombing at the shrine which killed 20 people and injured more than 130. now, he's the second suspect to be arrested and was detained today near the cambodia border. the prime minister said he closely resembled the suspect in yellow filmed by a security camera leaving that shrine area shortly before the bomb went off. the prime minister went on to describe him as the main suspect. later today, the police backtracked. they said merely he was an important suspect and that he was being sent to bangkok for questioning where he would also undertake dna, fingerprint, and other forensic tests. witnessed webe called to try to more closely identify him. at the

and the bangkok post had this editorial.le looks at the august 17th massacre and the arrest of what are now two foreign suspects. the writer says it has propelled thailand into the modern era of terrorism, and the police need to work closely with foreign governments to prevent future attacks. >>> olympic organizers in brazil have promised to start viral testing in the bay. they said only bacterial testing was required. a recent ap report found dangerously high levels of viruses caused by human sewage. and a setback for the 2020 olympic organizers in tokyo, they are getting rid of their logo. but officials say their decision had nothing to do with a lawsuit from a belgian artist. >>> a redevelopment project ahead of the 2020 olympics means a beloved tokyo hotel will soon face the wrecking ball. for years it has been a must-see stop for travelers with an eye for design and for vips including president obama and princess diana. but as harry fawcett reports guests and staff are now bidding farewell to the main building. ♪ >> rep

. >> i'm wayne hay reporting from inside thailand's parliament in bangkok, where a vote has seen a political uncertainty extended. >> guatemalans head to the polls to elect a president after weeks ever political turmoil. . >> i'll have the latest sports new, including former champion andy murray books his place in the last 16 of the us open. >>> we'll start this newshour are the refugee crisis. thousands of people are waiting to enter their desperate journey to europe to escape war and poverty. this is the worst refugee crisis europe has seen since world war ii. many people are at the border between hungary. they are allowed to go through the country. there are thousands of others waiting to make that trip. near the southern border with serbia, police are moving people into a new camp. hungary says it will seal the crossing with new high fence in less than five days. for many, a perilous trip is over. they have arrived in germany by train and bus. many of them are met with cheers and applause. we have our correspondents along the route that so many of these desperate refugees are taking. moh

. >> tithai police have arrested the first suspect involved in the bangkok bomb attack. >> japanese authorities have lifted an evaluation order which paves the way for its residents to return to their hometown four and a half years after the fukushima nuclear plant disaster. the first of seven municipalities allowed back after radiation contamination. >> japanese comic books have become a major part of the world's pulling industry. more than half a billion from sold last year. now their popularity is sprea spreading to some of the most unlikely places. we have reports from a library in dakar in senegal. >> 11-year-old girl is hooked on this japanese manga series. it is a story of a young japanese girl in hiroshima in the 1930s before the atomic bomb was dropped. >> i really like this book because of the adventure and the drawings, and sometimes i see myself in the character. it's just fun. >> finding manga in west africa let alo alone senegal is next to impossible. a woman with an extensive collection opened her house to the public. >> i put a message up on facebook saying people could come and

the first suspect was arrested over the weekend and an apartment in bangkok, where they found bomb making equipment and fake passports. we believe it's information we found at the apartment and from questioning the suspect that led them to today's arrest, and to those further arrest warrants. we're watching this closely, the information we're getting is a little confused, is sometimes contradictory. but certainly this does appear to be progress. >>> hungary suspended all rail traffic to and from its main terminal in budapest. >> here's nbc's report. >> reporter: hundreds of migrants are stuck in limbo outside budapest's train station. they were hoping to catch the next train on to munich and germany. that's where most of these migrants are hoping to apply for asylum. all day they haven't been allowed to enter the station, there is a police cord that prevents them to enter the main entrance. the entrance is open, but not for migrants. many of them told us they have tickets, some of them showed us tickets all the way from munich from here that cost as much as $150. >> a lot of the requests

according to the bangkok post the man is a muslim from china. it is suspected it is revenge for thailand sending muslim who escaped from china back to china in july. >>> a storm could create 20- foot waves. it is expected to pass 250 miles off the coast so the islands will miss the brunts of the storm, another hurricane is right behind ignacio, but it is too early to tell if it will have a significant impact. >>> look at the video from phoenix, arizona. storms caused flash flooding stranding many in the water. the fire crews responded to 400 emergency calls in two hours. the high winds brought down power lines. the roof of a terminal at sky harbor was damaged. there's no word of deaths or serious injuries. >>> president obama is scheduled to hike on a glacier today, focused on climate change. he will fly by helicopter to suard class can. he said climate change is no longer a distant threat it's a crisis. >> the time to heed the critics and cynics is past. the time to plead ignorance is surly passed. those who want to ignore the science are alone

. >> i'm reporting from inside thailand's parliament in bangkok, where a vote has seen the country's political uncertainty extended. >> we begin the news hour with the refugee crisis. thousands of people are still waiting to end their desperate journey to escape war, persecution and poverty. this is the worst refugee crisis europe has seen since world war ii. many refugees are at the border between hungary and austria. they were kept in hungary for days but now are being allowed to go through the country. there are thousands waiting to make that trip. near the southern border with serbia, police are moving people into a new transit camp. hungary will build a high fence in less than five days. >> for many, a perilous trip is over. as refugees arrived in germany by train and bus, many were met with cheers and applause. we have reportersual this route on the hungary border, and we start in munich. a sense of relief for many refugees as we've seen in a footage. when they arrive, what do they face? >> they face a process, a government process that requires them to register and apply for a

alison: a mystery in the skies over bangkok. steve: a fireball lit up the sky and video of it lit up social media. exactly what do we think it was? alison: plus starbucks' pumpkin spiced latte comes back tomorrow. if you can't wait, we'll tell you how to snag one today. pain from your day can haunt you at night, don't let it. advil pm gives you the healing sleep you need, helping you fall asleep and stay asleep so your body can heal as you rest. advil pm. for a healing night's sleep. alison: the minnesota dentist who sparked international outrage when he killed cecil the lion is headed back to work. >> dr. walter palmer plans to reopen his practice tomorrow. he says the backlash has taken a toll. >> reporter: walter palmer has been remaining out of the public eye after he killed the beloved lion named cecil. in an interview with the associated press in the minneapolis star tribune, he says he believes he acted legally and he was stunned to find out his hunting party had killed one of zimbabwe's treasured animals. he said if i ha

sports as "abc7 news at 6:00" maureen: social media website lit up after a fireball lit up skies over bangkok at the height of the morning rush. thailand government calling the fireball a meteor or space junk. but there are no reports of any debris striking anywhere in the area. nasa has monumental data back to the earth. it will take a year to et it back to johns hopkin data lab. it will travel 1-4 kilobytes per minute. a new study predicts fewer atlantic hurricanes in the coming decade. it's in "nature geoscience." the authors say the water around greenland is cooler and less salty. they predict the next few years are similar to 1970's and 1980's. in the district a monumental effort is underway to move a beach. indoor beach. jeff goldberg is live to explain. >> if you have been down here in the last few months and seen the beach you may have wondered what is going to happen between the plastic balls? they are all being moved tonight. the answer is many, many boxes. we saw dozens of volunteers boxing up and beginning the process of constructing 1400 boxes to move the ball to dupont undergrou

now according to the bangkok post, the man arrested is a weeger muslim from china. some say it was revenge for sending more than 100 weeger muslims back to china. >>> the photographer killed on live tv will be laid top rest today. the funeral for adam ward will be held in roanoke, virginia a few miles from the tv station where he worked. hundreds of people attended a individualation last night at his -- visitation last night at his former high school. no funeral plans have been announced yet for miss parker. >>> virginia tech football team will honor ward and parker. they will be wearing a special stick ordinary reason the players helmets. it has the number 7 for wdbj7 and also teal and maroon ribbons with both the initials of ward and parker. teal was miss parker's favorite coo already and maroon virginia tech -- favorite color and maroon virginia tech school. >>> a warning is going out about 275 apple user have their id's and pass words stolen opinion. security firm says hackers were able to target those therm phones with mall ware. the malware was spread by unaut