weng was also the chief of police and deputy mayor of chongqing. he was found guilty of covering up the murder of a businessman by bo's wife, gu kailai. prosecutors accused him of defecting and seeking political asylum in chengdu. they also said he abused wiretapping laws and accepted bribes. xinhua news agency reports he bears grave criminal responsibility. he says the judges showed him leniency in sentencing him to only 15 years in prison. they apparently took into consideration his cooperation with the murder investigation. the trial revealed a senior chongqing official slapped weng when he reported the 2011 murder of businessman neil haywood. sources close to the communist party say that official was likely bo xilai. china's leadership dismissed bo from the communist party after weng defected. observers are now waiting to find out how much bo knew about his wife's involvement in the murder and how the party will punish him. a court found gu kailai guilty last month of killing haywood and gave her a suspended death senten sentence. >>> a man who

temperature-wise, still rem remaining rather hot in chongqing at 27 for your high, hong kong at 33. look over here, only 10. autumn is settinging in here. the low is going to be getting down near freezing through the overnight hours on tuesday going into wednesday. now to the americas, high pressure across much of the great lakes region, actually much of the central u.s. seeing absolutely great weather. this is keeping skies clear. into the overnight hours, going to be getting cool as well. look at this front running away from the east coast of the u.s. this is moving into the canadian maritimes, already in the western portions of newfoundland. you have seen heavy rainfall, about 70 millimeters here. tropical storm and hurricane watches are in effect due to leslie here running in from the south. this affected bermuda over the weekend. now it is going to be running off towards the north and as it does so becoming extratropical in the north atlantic. around iceland you could be feeling the effects of this by friday. it's not going to be tropical at all, but high waves are going to be

chongqing is going to see me heaviest rain today. temperatures are as follows. 11 degrees in ulaanbaatar. 26 degrees in seoul. tokyo dropping down by five degrees since yesterday. moving into the americas, let's talk about hurricane miriam. miriam has been upgraded into a major hurricane. sustained winds are nearly 200 kilometers per hour with gusts of 240 kilometers per hour. it's going to move towards the north. no warnings and watches have been posted at this moment. but it will be an ongoing issue on the coast of the baja california peninsula. it could make landfall in the peninsula by late friday as a tropical storm. so a stormy condition is expected here. we'll keep you posted on the storm's progress. as for the rest of the country, smoke from wildfires is still blanketing the interior pacific northwest. out east, mostly dry. but we've got a big low pressure system over eastern canada. the front is gradually sagging southward. so the central mississippi valley, the ohio valley as well as central plains, you're expecting to see

bo was a party chief in chongqing. a member of the bureau and rising star. they started looking into what they called serious violations of the discipline. then suspended him. police had arrested bo's wife, gu kailai, on charges of murdering a british businessman, neil heywood. she was sentenced to death with a two-year suspension. wang tried to cover up gu's involvement in the murder. now, party officials have to decide what to do with bo. to put the biggest political scandal in years behind them. reporting for nhk world, beijing. >>> china is hinting at possible counter measures against the japanese government's plan to purchase the senkaku islands in the east china sea. japanese officials said the government reached a broad agreement to buy the islands from the owner to establish effective control in the peaceful manner. chinese foreign ministry spokesperson hong lei reiterated the islands belong to china. >> translator: japan it moving to internationalize the islands. this infringes the chinese sovereignty and hurts the chinese people's feelings. >> hong

but the firm will shorten operating hours at its facility in chongqing city in the run-up to the week-long holiday. >>> japan's auto production in august rose just over 4% from a year earlier. but output may be affected from this month following the end of government subsidies for buyers of ecofriendly cars and soured relations between japan and china. eight major automakers say their total domestic output last month was about $698,000 units. that's a rise for an 11th straight month compared with the previous year. but the increase is smaller than previous months when a jump of over 10% was shown. four of the eight firms reported an increase from a year before. honda's output jumped over 23% and toyota saw an increase of nearly 4%. but nissan and suzuki both reported declines. >>> google is hoping to have a self-driving car on the road within the next five years. drivers willfree from using both the steering wheel and the accelerator. google made the announcement on tuesday at an event held jointly with the california state government. a car equipped with an automated driving system will g

. >> a young boy with his head caught between some cement pillers in a building in chongqing china. >st playing around in a building. stuck his head through these cement grates almost in the building structure, but once he got his head through he couldn't get his head out. >> that's got to be so painful, and scary for a little kid like that. >> i always wonder, how do they get their heads in and can't get them out? >> pushing is always a lot easier than pulling. the skin starts folding up and gets stuck in there. the mom was terrified. they called for help. firefighters arrived but look what they used to get him out. >> they ended up getting a hydraulic-type piece of equipment that could break and spremd apart this cement. >> almost like the jaws of life kind of thing. >> we see this all the time. ought to build these buildings with smaller gaps so you can't get your head stuck. >> you're right. we've seen the same thing in china, actually. and it was also a cement pillar-type thing on a railing. took a total of ten minutes to perform the rescue, and the boy was okay. >>> the bombay d

bo is the highest ranking communist party official of the inland city of chongqing. he was expected to join the party's top brass this year, but a series of incidents led to his downfall. his former aide temporarily pled to the u.s. consulate in february. officials cited bo for violating party discipline. they suspended him from the post he held in the political bureau. then in july, police charged bo's wife gu kailai and her aide with murdering british businessman neil haywood. a chinese court handed her a suspended death sentence in august. bo's abuse of power allegation is tied to the role he played in the haywood case. >>> making a decision on bo's future frees up chinese leaders to focus on their transition of power. delegates from across the country will convene in beijing to attend november's congress. the meeting happens every five years. delegates to the 18th congress of the chinese communist party are expected to approve new policies. they will also appoint the next generation of party leaders. vice president xi jinping is slated to succeed hu jintao and as

we have another low developing over chongqing. that's going to be bringing significant rainfall as well. maybe 50 to 100 millimeters off of this rain band. it will be intensifying as it heads east over the weekend. southern china still seeing thundershowers along the coast. heavy rain has been falling in northern vietnam. we've had reports of more than 300 millimeters of rain in the last 24 hours. also parts of southern and central thailand have warnings for heavy rain. we just got this trough of heavy rain, in fact, from northeastern india right through to the philippines here. and that looks like it's going to be very active into the weekend. temperatures are starting to fall a little bit. we're going to be finding highs in the range of the upper 20s to the lower 30s. but cooling down towards the north. 25 degrees in beijing on friday. and 21 is expected in ulaanbaatar. we go to the americas. let's check on hurricane leslie. this massive cloud you can see over the atlantic. at the moment it's almost stationary. not really moving

temperatures, though, we're looking rather warm across most of the tropics, bangkok with a high of 34 here, chongqing at 30, and all the way up to, l ulaanbaatar, 20 for yo high. diving sfo to the single digits for friday. towards the americas, continuing to wash a frontal area pushing a cross the central plains, kind of a lingering low pushing through portions of texas combined with an upper-level disturbance. it's going to continue to create some moisture out here, so throughout the rest of your week and your weekend, even early parts of next week, you'll see some scattered rain showers and thunderstorms persisting as that slowly creeps down towards the east. now, this whole frontal area is really just the leading edge of cooler temperatures coming in behind it. portions of the dakotas, over towards montana, you could be seeing some freeze watches. and even farther off towards the north and portions of central canada, you have seen some frost watches through your overnight hours, but at least in canada here they're getting out there and enjoying autumn, especially out there in alberta. i want to sh

bo was the highest ranking communist party official of the inland city of chongqing. he was expected to join the party's top brass this year, but a series of incidents led to his downfall. his former aid etemporarily pled to the u.s. consulate in february. officials cited bo for violating party discipline. they suspended him from the post he held in the political bureau. then in july, police charged bo's wife and her aide with murdering british businessman neil haywood. a chinese court handed her a suspended death sentence in august. bo's abuse of power allegation is tied to the role he played in the haywood case. >>> making a decision on bo's future frees up chinese leaders to focus on their transition of power. delegates from across the country will convene in beijing to attend november's congress. the meeting happens every five years. delegates to the 18th congress of the chinese communist party are expected to approve new policies. they will also appoint the next generation of party leaders. vice president xi jinping is slated to succeed hu jintao and assume top p

as for the highs, getting up to 32 degrees in chongqing, but looking at moderate temperatures in seoul with a high of 26. tokyo, another hot day with a high of 33 degrees, with plenty of sunshine. all right. heading into the americas. there we can see a cluster of clouds over the atlantic. this is tropical storm leslie. leslie is situated far from any landmasses but producing swells along the coast of the caribbean islands and the eastern u.s. because it's a large system. right now packing sustained winds are 100 kilometers per hour. this is a tropical storm but will likely become a hurricane within the next 48 hours or so and get very close to bermuda by saturday night. all right. as for north america, remnants of isaac have been drenching the northeastern starts and the central gulf coast. in alabama about 80 millimeters of rain has been recorded over the past 24 hours. this is quite a lot for this region. rain will slowly make its way toward the eastern u.s. so toward the east coast, so flash floods are going to be a big concern. out west we've got more potent storm moving across th

the coast beginning to grow much faster more even growth now across china i mean we've heard about chongqing even before we heard about bo xilai because that was a kind of you know a symbol of an inland city that had begun to grow because they built you know that railway lines that build vast road lines that this public. network the still probably some way to go and the sewerage there's all sorts that they can build i mean remember what we think we tend to forget is the parallel with japan which i think is quite interesting because in a sense and japan. got to where japan is now which is kind of a wealthy western country became a. stagnant yeah but if you but i'm looking back at history now it got to where it is before people kind of noticed i mean people sort of noticed japan in the eighty's and it became a threat people notice china when it's at one six it depends how you measure it us g.d.p. per capita not eighty percent of us g.d.p. per capita why because it's huge and that's why so in a sense trying to been found out earlier in the whole kind of holding that i was out earlier well part

handed a suspended death sentence after admitting to poisoning her business partner, heywood, at a chongqing hotel. in that affair, the party said today bo had "abused his powers of office, committed serious errors, and bears a major responsibility." other charges-- of corruption, taking huge bribes, and conducting multiple sexual affairs-- go back more than a decade, as bo rose from mayor of the eastern port of dalian to minister of commerce to the chonqing post. the official statement reported by the xinhua news agency read: "bo's behaviors have yielded serious consequences, badly undermined the reputation of the party and the country, created very negative impacts at home and abroad, and significantly damaged the cause of the party and the people." the statement went on to announce that the next communist party conference will convene november 8. >> and having settled this contentious issue, the party leadership is in a position to start the party congress with a facade of unity and also harmony and persuading the chinese public as well as foreign audiences that the party is united, and a

. >> you traveled to the northeastern city of chongqing with the group on friday. what did you see? >> reporter: chongqing was not as impoverished as i thought. >> i saw many people -- they are billboards promising major development. but i got the sense that the city is lagging behind economically. for instance, i saw a car that was burned by charcoal. the building i saw was mostly old. our movements were not as tightly controlled as they would have been at one time, but we were still not allowed to wander about freely. it was difficult to access the economic situation. >> north korea has said it's willing to cooperate with japan in uncovering the remains of the japanese. why do you think the north has been so open on this issue? >> reporter: the main reason is the economic situation facing the country. north korean leader kim jong-un is under pressure. that's a top priority for him in order to win over loyalty of the people. north korean leaders seem to be using the issue of the japanese remains as a bargaining chip. by normalization relations with japan. the country hopes to event

the highest ranking communist party official in chongqing. he was expected to join the party's top this year. but a series of incidents led to his downfall. his former aide temporarily fled to the u.s. consulate in february. officials cited bo for discipline. they suspended him from the post he held in the bureau. then in july, police charged bo's wife and her aide with murdering businessman haywood. hounded her in august. the state run news agency says that in the haywood case, bo abused his powers. making a decision on both future frees up chinese leaders to focus on the transition of power. delegates from across the country will convene in beijing to attend november's congress. the meeting happens every five years. delegates to the 18th congress on the communist party are expected to approve new policies. they will also appoint the next generation of party leaders. vice president ping is ready to succeed jintao. observers are focusing on how both will affect the party's new leadership appointments at the upcoming party congress. michitaka