akihiro spent two years in beijing covering china's economy. he cites concerns about governance as the reason for japan's hesitation. >> chinese officials say the aiib will be based in beijing, and is expected to have $100 billion in capital. they say china can provide up to half the funding. it's clear the country will have a big say in how the bank is run. japanese officials mainly from the finance ministry want the aiib to have a board of directors in order to increase transparency. they believe a board would be useful to impartially coordinate member nations' interests regarding law and investment programs. so japan has been asking china whether the development bank will form such a board. but tokyo is still waiting for an answer. >> so what approach do you think japan will take? >> some officials are reluctant to promote aiib membership due to the concerns i just mentioned. but proponents say japan's participation is essential to boost its infrastructure exports, and ensure the transparency of the bank's operation. some business leaders sa

is in beijing. what are we saying?ne: according to a study by bloomberg, economists are expecting exports to rise at 9%. overall trad balance at $14 billion. we saw a rise in a in february. duead a surplus but that is to a lot of extortions and due to the holiday. are in the numbers. most economists not expecting the 15% boost in exports in the first two months of the year to continue. one is pmi numbers. it did beat expectations for march but by a low margin. what everite weak, expansion will be marginal. and the exchange rate, the u.s. is at the highest level in 11 years. that is pushing up commodity prices and pushing up the value of exports. course, on the one hand, china is gaining because of the lower commodity prices. on the other, it might hurt the competitive sense in the long term. a lot of factors here. a short-term indicator for now but for the long picture, we are looking at the gdp numbers for the first quarter on wednesday. rishaad: what are you economists looking for on wednesday here? christine: well,

you kid beijing., documentaries on beijing for air quality. 30, worldwide, most polluted city. india, 13 of the top 20 cities for pollution, india, we have qatar, bangladesh make the list for dirt yeast air in the world. think of delhi, top cities in india. pollution in 2012, nearly 4 million people under age of 60 lost their lives considered because of the air quality across the region. look at why this happens. terrain. exacerbates the issue. you have the tallest walls in world. banking up pollutants come into place. banked up against it there, traps it. we have stagnant weather patterns in place, the fog forms, a lot of fuel being burned in the winter months for heating purposes. they burn foliage, wood. looks look this. portions of india, guys, air quality is bad, akin to smoking several packs of cigarettes a day. >> there is not much you can do. >> no there isn't. >>en the short term. >> exactly. >> thank you for that. >> and thank you for watching cnn. i'm rosemary church. >> i'm errol barnett.

rishaad: thank you very, tom orlik in beijing.: china's slowdown is spreading to its neighbors. emerging asian economies are likely to slow as the dominant economic power slows. let's get more from sudhir shetty joining us first on bloomberg from singapore. thank you for joining us. when you take a look at just what the analysis is six months on from your last report, what has changed for east asia and the pacific? sudhir: good morning, angie. two things as we highlighted in the report. one, the fall in oil prices. we see this as the third-largest decrease in oil prices in terms of magnitude over the last 50 years, almost. huge. more importantly, most likely to persist for at least the coming year, through 2015. that is huge for this region. this region, as you know, is primarily made up of oil and gas importers. the second big thing that has changed since october is the appreciation of the u.s. dollar about if teen percent in real effective terms relative to the japanese yen and euro in particular. that has meant currencies in th

over to beijing.s were expecting this certainly, but not of this magnitude and perhaps not now. both the premier and central-bank have been saying aina has the tools to support 7% growth target it's set. that is what we are seeing. most economists were expecting a cut by june. they definitely did not expect this magnitude of cut. bank reserve requirements were cut by one percentage point. and put the requirements 18.5%. pretty high by global standards. it will inject close to $200 billion into the system. so for liquidity has had limited impact. banks are reluctant to lend to private and smaller businesses, given the risky environment and slowing economy. to try to channel more of these funds into the area, the central cuts toing additional rule financial institutions. certain month of lennix to agricultural and small businesses. the agricultural bank will have reserve requirements cut by an additional 2%. some of the liquidity will no doubt flow into the stock market. china officially in stimulus mod

adrian brown, al jazerra beijing. >>> a new inexpensive vaccine is set to be introduced in india to help child death from the wrote a rotavirus the vaccine is due next month and is the first to be produced in the developing word faiz jamil reports. >> reporter: it's children who live in poor areas like this one in new deli who are most at risk of infection many of them preventable. her five-year-old daughter died a few months ago from severe diarrhea. she says it's impossible for people like her to protect their families from threats like this. >> translator: of course i am angry because if the water was clean, if the outside was clean why would my daughter die? why would my children fall ill. we don't have money to treat her in a fancy hospital for poor people like us, this is what happens. >> reporter: unsanitary conditions lead to mourn 300 khaoeugd deaths from diarrhea in india every year, one-third of caused by this. the wrote a vie us, which causes severe sigh rhea in infants and young children, most the india's poor don't have access to available vaccines, now this lab has develop

beijing announced it will establish a system in may to ensure bank deposits. the government has long protected the banking industry using public funds to bail out failing banks. the practice has helped banks with poor management efficiency survive. the latest move is viewed as a measure to promote competition in the banking industry. the country needs a system to ensure individual depositors before letting any banks collapse. this move shows that the chinese government is trying to achieve a shift towards economic growth marked by quality and efficiency. i think the measure will be indispensable for china to maintain stable growth over the long term. but in the short term it may have a negative effect on the economy. indeed china's growth for the first quarter dropped 0.3 percentage points from the previous year. beijing is required to strike a difficult balance between maintaining growth at a certain level and proceeding with structural reforms. china clearly faces an extremely difficult phase, the likes of which it has never experienced before. >> the weak g

they have held a seminar at japan's embassy in beijing. it's part of a growth strategy which foresees doubling the amount of foreign investment in japan by 2020. about 150 business people attended. they were briefed on government efforts to lower the effective corporate tax rate. other incentives include making it easier to land private jets at local airports in japan. >> translator: it's informative, because my company is looking for a partner in japan in the medical sector. >> translator: we want chinese executives to know that the japanese government welcomes their direct investment. >> the amount of direct investment from china has been smaller than that from the united states or south korea. officials are hoping more chinese companies will look to the japanese market as their operations become increasingly global. >>> the space travel business is rapidly growing in the united states and japanese companies are climbing on board. our reporter rosa sabrino has more. >> reporter: this is one of the world's largest space business trade fai

seth doane is in beijing. >> reporter: these women are singing on the beijing subway to raise awarenessgainst abuse and discrimination. here dressing up as blood-stained brides to encourage women to stand up against domestic violence. or making styrofoam toilets to push authorities for more public female restrooms. but five of these women were detained recently for what authorities called picking quarrels. what does this say about china today that people like this are being locked up? "those five kids are so moderate" xi jinping told us. it was too risky to talk at home so she guided us to a park to tell us about conditions in a defence facility. a friend and fellow activist was detained twice once overnight when she tried to visit them. "words could not describe the misery," she explained. "under such mental pressure people confess easily, whether they committed a crime or not." a month after their detention no formal charges have been filed. activists tell us these detentions are indicative of the shrinking space for dissent here in china. as journalists, lawyers and now women's right

let's head to beijing. we have our respondent standing by., what did this report have to say? the report said that china's 9.7% increase in defense spending in 2014 really dominated the military moneys in asia. the overall increase in the rest of the region drew 1.2%. have been seeing china trying to modernize its military and bulking up. it has a lot cousin traded on the style tennessee tension -- south china sea tension. land reclamation did it is also claimed by vietnam, the philippines, and taiwan. they say it is reasonable and justified and is well within -- it also says it doesn't impact any country thus beyond report. it is stretching it a little bit far. likely they'll have to back up these constructions with military might as well. hasrestingly, vietnam increased military spending. total defense -- vietnam's total defense -- >> thank you. coming up next, deflation concerns. we discussed asian investment strategies. stay with us. you are watching "first up." ♪ >> checking stories making headlines around the world. the carrier received

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the activists have slammed the voting framework from beijing.ey say voting from preselected candidates is "fake democracy." >> the umbrellas are back in central hong kong. four months later and democracy protesters congregated on the streets. their grievances the same. hong kong's chief executive unveiled a long-awaited blueprint for the elections in 2017. the main objections seem to have been ignored. hong kong voters will still have to choose from a list of candidates preselected by a pro-beijing committee. >> firstly, this proposal meets the demands of the majority of hong kong's population. secondly, the central government has made it clear what its principles are, where its bottom line is, and it will not make any compromise. >> the election in 2017 is set to be the first ever public vote for hong kong's leader. protesters in the umbrella movement say that it will be nothing more than a fake democracy if the candidates they are voting for have been nominated by beijing. >> the proposal allows them to control the election result by controlli

and a majority of those g-20 members plan to be a part of beijing's new development bank. china says 57 nations are participating in the asian infrastructure investment bank or aiib. but japan and the u.s. are holding back citing concerns over transparency in the bank's governance. . japanese finance minister met with u.s. treasury secretary jack lew ahead of the g-20 meeting to discuss the aiib. >> translator: in talks with jack lew we agreed the aiib must meet internal standards. they include securing proper governance and debt sustainability as well as giving consideration to the new bank's impact on the environment and relevant societies. >> he said one of the ways to effectively raise the new bank standards is joint financing. that would be with existing institutions with high standards such as the world bank and asian development bank. chinese finance minister says beijing wants to see tokyo come on board the aiib but said the two countries differ over conditions for their participation. >> translator: if they say they are not going to be part of it then there's not

beijing's investment plan for pakistan far outstrips u.s. aid which totaled $5 billion between 2012 and 2014, but when you think of the blood and treasure the united states has poured into the region china is buying influence by strategically deploying its vast foreign exchange reserves through vehicles like the newly created china led asian infrastructure investment bank which many became founding members of despite washington's objections. pakistan is one of the areas where china is forming an ambitious network known as one belt one road, if realized, the belten road, could serve to extend beijing's political influence, other nation's human rights affairs. beijing has also expressed a desire for new regional security structures in asia that shift away from u.s. led alliances. ali. >> let's bring lawrence korb, he joins us again from washington. let's pick up where we left off with respect to pakistan but this time with china as a consequence. you know people may not always think about this but china has a pretty good-sized border with paki

look at beijing, 31 there on your saturday. i will leave you now with your extended outlook. >>> and that's all for this edition of "newsline." i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. thanks for joining us. >> the bloody rampage through tunis' bardo museum has left tunisia reeling as it comes to terms with an is attack which struck at the heart of both its tourist industry, and its national identity. the country once held up as the arab spring's last beacon of hope is now faced with some tough soul-searching as it moves to tighten its security. find out more after this quick round up of today's topics, here on "global 3000." terror in tunisia radicalisation brings violence to the state and grief to families. biodiversity's playground: mexican environmentalists keep a close watch on the gulf of california.

>>reporter: it's understood that three activists are being held northeast of beijing.he detention center can accommodate 4,000 inmates. the other two women have been moved to a police headquarters. one is being treated for hepatitis and the other has a heart condition. the women are affiliated to a nongovernmental organization whose offices were raided by chinese security agents last week. they took away files and computers before changing the door lock. police wouldn't respond to our request for comment. the women are accused of disturbing social order or in the words of the police picking quarrels and provoking troubles. it's a crime with no clear definition but allows the police unlimited discretion to detain and arrest suspects for almost any action. >> detaining on the charge of picking quarrels and provoking trouble when the event they were planning was two days away. even by chinese legal standards, there's absolutely nothing to detain them on because the event they were planning hadn't even taken place yet. >>reporter: as international pressure mounts on china

beijing started going up again.prices fell 9% in the first quarter and it is a depressed picture, overall. so, you know, a big jump and it will be a little while before it true -- it truly turns the corner. >> thank you so much for that. to destroy you right now. theee a strengthening of aussie dollar on the heels of the cuts. partner is trading for australia and the 225. it is down and we have a stronger yen creating some for exporters. this is the view from there. yuan.a stronger korean much of the focus will be on the chinese markets after china said 'se reminder of isaac newton observation on gravity. what goes up comes down. they have put in rules to remind people. collect it was an announcement saying that it will come down at some point. to takek some steps some of the heat off of the overheating market. one was the leverage we are seeing. taken toion has been borrow equities. they said after the markets closed that they shut down a source of borrowing money and the trusts that the margin trading businesses u

we started getting rumors the army was starting to shoot its way into the center of downtown beijing. of a sudden we hear this noise. boom, boom, boom, boom. >> under orders from the government to take back the square, soldiers from the people's liberation army advance into the city center from three directions. >> the violence began outside tianamen square as the army units started to come into beijing. they were met with resistance. >> these were armor piercing bullets, and the crowd was densely packed. there were lots and lots of casualties. >> jan wong, along with some other journalists retreat to a room at the beijing hotel which overlook the square. >> the rest of the night we just watched this carnage unfold. >> this is about the worst you can do to your own citizens, and they're doing it. that armored group as it works down towards tianamen square was firing at demonstrators. it was a bloodbath. you have one side with military grade weapons and you have people in their summer dresses with their children. it's a massacre. >> the next day ap still photographer jeff weidnor convi

[inaudible] that includes using this [inaudible] we have a great deal of proposals including beijing this on prosperity especially to asian members. [inaudible] he made this barricade in beijing [inaudible] and this has had 83-point an interesting effect on a proposal to it. and fortunately we are doing our best to emphasize. we must make a correct deal and promote growth. and underneath we have a strong and solid fabric to achieve the goal. >> if you must reach, you must force this road. that is a very simple and import in fact that is a part of the whole development of the fact. and that is something that we develop infrastructure to boost the economy. and this [inaudible] the asia country is at best outside asia [inaudible] adb is part of this and we play that contributor function and this includes the older views [inaudible] [inaudible] the policy between china and the president himself. and the secretary made a speech [inaudible] including pension reform. and it's very important for members of this they are working together to contribute to improve and enhance theirs. they stron

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at the beijing olympics... the world cup in rio... even jaming at the grammys. >> as a musician we will collaborate with great musicians. >> lang lang grew up in an industrial city in northern china. his father was a tough task master, demanding he practice 8 hours a day... once even urging his young son to commit suicide. >> it's kind of a hard thing to even think about it. it's something that... i think the love become too extreme. >> a child prodigy, his mother stayed home to support the family while lang lang pursued his dreams. >> i would say that's the most difficult thing for me it was, you know, growing up without my mom next to me. >> now lang lang is trying to bring classical notes into the lives of children through his international music foundation. >> we believe music can make people happier, to make the kids more creative. >> one of his earliest inspirations... the cartoon musicians tom and jerry. >> so it's really cool when you see, you know, tom try to catch him like... [plays discordant piano sounds]. >> i sat down wi

beijing is expressly emergence of the -- beijing is experiencing the emergence of the labor market. >> 71 years ago to the day the nazis rated an orphanage in a village in eastern france. all but one teacher was killed. a museum built on the orphanage has so many visitors that a new wing has been built to accommodate. francois hollande is in the village to open the extension. >> it was supposed to have been a refuge to the jewish orphans who had already escaped the nazis once. the home took in youngsters from france and other european countries. on april 6 1944, the gestapo rated the orphanage. all of them except for one teacher were killed in concentration camps. president hollande is opening an extension. it is too small to accommodate the 26,000 people who visit every year. it is a memorial to the victim of crimes carried out under the nazi government. annette: greece is in the spotlight. >> we cannot get enough of greece. the finance minister spent his easter sunday at the imf for what was billed as an informal meeting. something dramatic may be on the horizon. greece will not mis

al jazerra beijing. >>> now, to mexico.a million people have had their drinking water cut off because of an oil spill. water treatment centers in the state of tobasco were shutdown after vandals damage aid pipeline causing oil to flow in to the sierra river. water surprise should be restored by friday. but it's expected to take two week got cleanup. >>> south african asylum seekers being held in detention in israel say they are being threatened with at the pour take to unsafe countries against their we'll. nisreen reports where deportation noticed are being handed to inmates in a detention certainty. >> reporter: which israel rounded up thousands of asylum seekers and put them here, it was thought restriction on his their movement and access to jobs would be force them to return home. but only some have left. so the government recently offered an alternative. written notices given to some here say they will be deport today unnamed african countries thought to be uganda and rwanda. eritrean army deflector daniel who received

that's sand mixing in and sweeping across beijing obviously causing the air had ards.at it did to the city's streets, snarling traffic, causing blackouts, people lost power because of the strong winds and the heavy pollution moving through. the gobi desert is the main source for our region and the duststorms. this is common this time of year. the winds pick up off the desert and it causes health has had hazards for young children and elderly. we do have a break in the wind on thursday event into friday. but there's a possibility it picks up again. beer going to watch out for this very closely. cold front moves east and bring in a chance of rain to -- well, that would be japan. but, really, talking about these sandstorms, you said you've been in one. what do you do? how do you take cover? >> you wake up and you look out the window and it's like being on mars. it's always this red -- essentially, you just stay inside and turn on the air filters on if you're lucky enough to have them. most people don't. >> do the masks help? >> no. it's awful. nothing helps. in 2013, ther

our correspondent is cristine, watching all this from beijing the take it away.ter: hey, rish well, you know companies want to harness that money. we've really seen a number of i.p.o.'s this month. 21 in january. 18 in february because of a chinese holiday and now 30 in april. shanghai closed last week at its highest since 2008. of these i.p.o.'s 30 for april, 11 in shanghai. this is good actually because a lot of analysts say that bubbles could form on these smaller boards due to the high level of speculation. the more shares the more evenly the risk is shared. they've -- they expect another $2.9 billion to be raised, coming back into the market. 2012, they raised over $10 billion over three days and had planned to raise that over 15 days. so the appetite is really high. rishaad: ok. there is also a lot of money tied in with these offerings, isn't there? reporter: well the only thing you need to worry about is when all this money comes back to the market. typically they get held up for about a month or so. so expect the $2.9 billion to be mays -- raised from the

tom orlik a bloomberg economist from beijing.om: in our next hour, a conversation with henry paulson. not only his interest in china but hank paulson on the american financial system. 7:3-0 this morning. from new york city,. this is bloomberg "surveillance." ♪ tom: good morning. the georgeousity of getting into tax day. brendan: i have a correction. you said i was off for two days doing my taxes. my wife did the taxes i was cleaning the garage. tom: something less useful than doing taxes. a morning must read. a smart one on california from olivia sterns. olivia: my morning must read comes from "the new york times." he also writes about food. he writes "in most areas groundwater farland oh-fers is free as long as you can -- groundwater for landowners is free as long as you can dig a well." he's saying it's great that jerry brown says everybody has to shower and use less water but the problem is for agricultural policy. we needa a policy that prevents profit-making from public water. what we have in california is a situation where

. >> they are not trying to provoke beijing or excluded. they try to push forward a trade pact involving 12 nations. prime minister abe said they made progress on sticking points. u.s. lawmakers will have something to say about that. on wednesday prime minister abe will try to win over congress as he becomes the first japanese prime minister to address a joint session of congress. katty: for more on prime minister of -- on the prime ministers visit i'm joined by the former ambassador to japan. to what extent was this really about china? >> everything is about china in northeast asia. this is a big business, there is no question. the defense guidelines announced yesterday that were agreed upon between the united states and japan are breathtaking in the changes they are making to the relationship. the so-called collective self-defense announcement that the japanese are ready to come to the aid of an american ship or missile that has been lashed against the united states is a big deal. our treaty is not reciprocal. we are required to come to t

beijing issuing 119 billion in loans to latin american countries, making china a dominant player in a cash-strapped region dominated by u.s. policy. >> china came out of nowhere to put a footprint in what america referred to as its backyard. >> that financing and the influence it yields is expected to get bigger as china looks to the raw materials it needs to support its economy. last year chinese banks increase investments in the countries by 71%. beijing pledged three-quarters of a trillion investment and trade, in exchange for contracts with firms. >> in 2010 chinese loans totalled more than those from the world bank the inter-american bank and the u.s. export-import bank combined. >> it couldn't have come at a better time or better way. latin america has a 6.2% annual g.d.p. gap. the majority of finance goes into infrastructure and energy. it used to be the domain of the united states. the panama canal is an knamp. america took over. there's competition in nicaragua. a chinese businessman plans to pour billions into a canal of his own, to challenge the panama canal. the impacts ca

christine in beijing.about the millions of people from this part of the world traveling abroad to earn a living,olitically -- clinically calls to bring them back may raise a few points but then reality bites, they might not be able to afford to keep them at home. david: they keep their heads down and work, usually barely noticed. but margaret workers mixing stick. the role they play is vital -- migrant workers make things t ick. the role they play is vital home and abroad. shanghai and singapore, their own citizens see better prospects elsewhere. >> finding a job is quite hard, especially if you are not educated. >> i came here for work to help my family also. sistersore brothers and in school. >> the biggest struggle for me is leaving my baby back home. but i have to to be here for her. david: it is estimated 6.5 million indonesians work overseas. they are called oki, indonesian pki, indonesian labor, and it'd percent of them are domestic labor. millionhilippines, 10.5 are estimated to be laboring w,ersea

cory: all right, hans thank you for joining us from beijing. early xiaomi investor and early in beijing as well. we proosh it. amazon fighting ebay and it's been fighting ebay for decades. now, maybe it's working. we'll have that next as "bloomberg west" continues ♪ cory: i'm cory johnson. this is "bloomberg west." third-party sellers are key to ebay's business and now they're become more important to amazon as well. amazon added one million sellers last year. ebay added none. amazon's pool of merchant is two million compared to ebay's five million but is ebay in trouble here? david spitz is here and joining us right now. tell me about what we're seeing where amazon doubles its users but they're still a fraction of what ebay is doing. david: so ebay has been around a long time as you know. we see consumers moving more towards the convenience that amazon offers. so both ebay and amazon offer a lot of selection on a lot of value but convenience is the name of the game online. and we see amazon pulling away from ebay on the convenience category es

. >>> well, we have done some previous work, and looking at whether or not people that live in beijingthings, in their blood and urine and when the air pollution levels were lower did we, in fact, see improvements. so we saw that there was this health benefit in even these young folks and we had done some previous work, and looking at them to, see if they may may be associated with bird weight being low and so we wanted had to do that again, in the beijing olympics and what was nice, we got to the see going against the way here we'll see if decreases in pollution cause an increase in birth weight, and providing some more convincing evidence. >>> pakistan's shrinking rapidly and, with the threat of climate change one problem is, a massive tree planting effort. and now, the report. >>> pack cast stand is a large country and, less than 5% is due to that, and the conflict in pack cast stand has encouraged the chopping of the forest, where the country had resources and because of the yet in of climate change, it has come out with a plan, to plant up to a billion trees. the plan will take 4

yes, we saw that action by the authorities in beijing over the weekend with a rrr and they cut it moreressively than most in the market did expect. 100 basis points and the aim here is to encourage credit growth, to encourage bampings to to get liquidity going. initially we did see a positive reaction. we saw china stocks up by 1%. they did reverse course and as you pointed out, down by 1.6% at the close. let's net forget as well that the authorities in beijing, the securities regulators are trying to take the steam out of the market rally. they clamped down on margin financing. let's not forget this very staggering statistic, we have now surpassed the 1 trillion yuan mark. it could be a brutal one if it is corrected. that is probably the overriding factor here. that is probably why it shook out some of the speculative activity. how long is it going to last though is the big question? remember, seema, the last time we saw them trying to prick the equities bubble was january 19th. the mainland market lost about 8%. it came storming back in the ensuing weeks to rise up to 30% since that

china correspondent reports from beijing. >> well this keanely anticipated announcement was confirmed by the newsagency on friday morning. it said that they had been charged with bribery, abuse of power and leaking state secrets. the case has been referred to a court. and we expect the trial, an open trial, to happen within the next few weeks. why does this matter? joe was in charge until three years ago, of the country's vast security apparatus. he had files on everyone including, presumably president xi jinping. he was the most feared and powerful man in the country. his humiliation and disgrace was confirmed with trial in the city. >> china has not seen anything like this since the gang of four were put on trail in 1980. >> plenty more world news to come on al jazeera - including going home at last. after years of being forced to work as fishermen without pay, a report from indonesia. and afghanistan seeks just for the death of a woman beaten and burnt by a mob while police looked on. on. >> al jazeera america brings you a first hand look at the environmental issues, and new unders

we'll see sunny skies in beijing coming up on friday high of 24 degrees. 19 in shanghai. skill quite warm 3 degrees in taipei as we go towards the weekend. now i want to show you what's happening over in europe. we do have a very warm area in the central portions of the continent because of high pressure throwing the temperatures high up into paris, people are able to go out and try to stay cool in the process by eating ice cream and staying in the shade but still able to enjoy the outdoors. that may slowly coming to an end. a cold front is coming from north and will bring some temperatures down and a low pressure system from the iberian peninsula. it's a slow moving system and will have some effect going into friday. but for thursday looking at wet weather in madrid and lisbon. 25 in paris with sunny skies. low pressure from the east bringing rain to moscow and kiev. north america, we have a stationary front and a low pressure system still bringing a lot of rainfall for the u.s. deep south into places like louisiana and the bayou. look out for heavy rainfall. another low

beijing hitting 30 degrees. the daytime heating could produce instability in the daytime and evening hours. generally speaking we're looking at shanghai pretty calm into friday at 25 degrees and showers across hong kong and in taipei. taipei, these are the areas where we have been seeing severe drought conditions. so this could actually be some welcoming rain. we see a build up of that rainy season already starting now. as for the rainfall into the southern areas, widely spread and also across here in western japan in an hour 76.5 millimeters was observed in kagoshima. that is still going to be likely with thunderstorms also associated with that. southern tip of korean and that's pulling into much of the western areas of japan. we're also likely to see the heat continue across northern locations. the northernmost island of this archipelago is seeing 25 agrees in in sapporo. another summer day. tokyo the same digits here. you can compare that. usually it's about 15 degrees average in hokkaido. beijing you can see