floods have already affected chongqing. heavy rain will persist in chongqing with high of 31 degrees. seoul may see stormy weather as well. 22 degrees on tuesday. that's it for now. stay safe and have a nice day. >> thahat's all for this hour. thank you for staying with us on nhk "newsline." >>> welcome to "newsline in depth." japan's professional baseball season is just under way now. almost three months behind schedule due to the coronavirus outbreak. but the hugely popular sport has resumed games without spectators. according to a study conducted by sports marketing agency, nearly 50% of global sporting events are likely to be canceled this year. of course, this is a blow to fans, athletes and t team owner as well as the stadiums and concession stands. but today we see how athletes in japan are still out to win the game, by daadapting to ining to challenging times. let's look at the national sport some more. usually scheduled every two months in march, the tournament was held without spectators. and in may it was cancele

just this afternoon around lunchtime and activist called chongqing issued the following demands on twitter"all murals and stained-glass windows of white jesus and his european mother and boyfriend should also come down. a very gross form of whites from us he tools of oppression, racist propaganda. they should all come down." " before you dismiss that idea as absurd, the rantings of some crank of social media, keep in mind that chongqing is the most amos black lives matter leader in this country. black lives matter is now more popular than either major political party. so don't be surprised when they come for your church. why wouldn't they? no one is stopping them. the forces of destruction have grand ambition. it's not just about the teddy roosevelt statue. they plan to rule this country. what will happen if they do? well, you may imagine that self-defense is your bulwark against chaos. in this country you assume you can always defend yourself and your family. that's a pillar of our civilization, of all western civilization. this woman assumes that too. on wednesday she was driving through

chongqing will be at 31, hong kong 30, and all those areas will be affected by severe thunderstorms andossibilities of flooding. so, please do take care at all times there. you can see a similar pattern as we move closer towards central asia. in india, temperatures have been high for a long time and also fuelling the rising of warm air and leading to thunder showers. the new data will reach a maximum of 41 degrees and right along the central toward to the coastal parts where they're suffering from tropical cyclone, they're still lingered with heavy rainfall. it is most at risk so make sure you are safe at all times. crossing over to north america, i would like to focus on what has been happening toward the northeast. there's a bigger story towards the western side. let's take a look at the video. we'll be seeing hot weather, scorching temperatures that have led to the creation of perfect weather conditions for wild fires. some 200 firefighters foughght e blblaze since wednesdayay. high riskk of wild firire will contntinue intoo thursday becau the high temperatures and strong winds are g

chongqing, hong kong, those areas will be affected including parts of taiwan where temperatures willfairly warm there. 33 as wellll. slightly cooler for shanghai at 28 and do expecect cooler weath towards. the united states feeling the consequences and impacts of the tropical cyclone or storm cristobal which is now just a low pressure system but still leading to heavy rainfall in places like the great lakes and much of northern eastern united states. please do take care at all times there. temperatures for chicago 29 and on the opposite side hot weather and humidity in phoenix. 39 is what you will expect for the daytime high. strokes could be a major concern. stay in air conditioned places and stay hiydrated as much as yu can. that's all for the weather. have a great day. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> and that is all for this edition of nhk "newsline." i'm yamamoto miki in tokyo. thanks for joining us. ♪ ♪ >>> welcome to "newsline in depth." we come to you from the rooftop of nhk'k's headquarters in shibuya, tokyo. that lush greenery behind me is yo yogi park. we've come out from our studios once agai

temperatures increasing towards chongqing as well as taipei, manila joining the pack with the hot conditionswas eager to tell you about the united states. it's because of the hot conditions that are persisting about much of the western side. still hot and dry. could lead to forest fires. could lead to heat exhaustion in certain places. so, make sure you stay hydrated and stay indoors before had you can. it's going to be quite dry for the next couple of days or so. and look at these temperature frs death valley. 49 degrees is what you should expect. that's all for the weather. stay cool and have a great day. ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> and that's all for this edition of nhk "newsline." i'm yamamoto miki in tokyo. please stay safe and stay healthy. thanks for joining us on nhk world-japan. ♪ ♪ >>> welcome to you "newsline in depth." i'm shibuya aki. today, we're looking at creatures coming to people's rescue in the pandemic, some from animal shelters, others from the spirit world. the global outbreak of covid-19 has changed many things about our daily lives. one result is that a lot of us, because we're working

in the huge south—western metropolis of congqing, in the huge south—western metropolis of chongqing, has been issued, meaning residents should leave the most dangerous areas. footage taken their shows at homes and businesses completely submerged as rising waters lead to conditions not seen this bad in decades. nearly half of all china's provinces have been affected, but in six of them, the situation has become especially severe. more than 170 major rivers are flooding as this emergency stretches into its third week. even hubei province, after all it's been through with the coronavirus, is in the firing line. the weather isn't due to change in a hurry. translation: it's predicted that the rainy season in the middle and lower reaches of the yangtze river will be longer than usual, with very high levels of rain. under this impact, we're expecting the yangtze to be hit by more regionalfloods. landslides have clogged the spillways of overfilling dams. hundreds of reservoirs have had to urgently discharge massive amounts of flood water. chinese rescue teams are accustomed to crises like th

invalid and illegal. 8 children have drowned in a river in the south west of china in the city of chongqing chinese state media say they drowned after one of them fell into a river and others jumped in to help the bodies of the elementary school students were recovered on monday. so the president has declared what he described as an historic victory victory for his party in the parliamentary election a number of opposition parties boycott of the poll saying it wouldn't be feel fair because of the control they say alexander has over the media but he's in canada have warned an exiled saudi dissident that his life may be in danger the guardian newspaper reports that omar abdel aziz was told his a potential target of the saudi government. was a close associate of saudi journalist who was killed by saudi operatives in turkey in 22. and u.s. president donald trump says he would consider meeting venezuela's nicolas maduro despite his administration's campaign to for me to ship his having 2nd thoughts about his decision to recognize opposition leader as venezuela is illegitimate president those are

and a children have drowned in a river in southwestern china it happened in the city of cologne chongqing chinese state media say they drowned after one of them fell into a river and others jumped in to help the bodies of the elementary school children were recovered on monday morning they had gone to play by the river just the day before. hundreds of garment workers in bangor those have protested job losses due to the coronavirus pandemic that also demanding back pay saying employees of the windy group which supplies are and h. and m. have been laid off without proper compensation many clothing factories in bangor they're forced to shut due to the drop in global demand of say garment exports fell by 84 percent in april. record high temperatures have been reported in a siberian town located above the arctic circle temperatures of 38 degrees celsius were felled in the vertical yun sky on saturday its previous high was 37.2 degrees the town in the republic was the most extreme temperature range in the world with a low of minus $68.00 degrees much of siberia has seen unseasonably high temper

biosphere reserve. 8 children have drowned in a river in southwestern china it happened in the city of chongqing chinese say media say they drowned after one of them fell into a river and others jumped in to help the bodies of the elementary school students were recovered on monday morning. the top disease experts in china is expecting a big drop in corona virus infections in the capital by the end of the week have been more than 230 cases in beijing since a new outbreak at the side of the month but just 9 were reported on monday officials have put several neighborhoods into lockdown in order tests on high risk groups such as restaurant workers and food co is. there's been a rise in the reproduction rate of corner virus in germany last week one person infected one infected person was transmitting the virus to fewer than 2 other people while that number now is close to 3 dominic kane has more from berlin. for the past few days the reproduction rate of the corona virus the our rate has been climbing across the country in part due to localized outbreaks that have taken place in several different st

uninhabited islands. 8 children have drowned in a river in southwestern china it happened in the city of chongqing chinese state media say they drowned after one of them fell into a river and others jumped in to help the bodies of the elementary school students were recovered on monday morning. police in canada have warned an exiled saudi dissidents that his life may be in danger the guardian newspaper reports that omar abdel aziz was told his a potential target of the saudi government he was warned to take precautions of disease was a close associate of saudi journalist who was killed by saudi operatives in istanbul turkey in 2018 and u.s. president donald trump says he would consider meeting venezuela's nicolas maduro despite his administration's campaign to oust madura from leadership says he is having 2nd thoughts about his decision to recognize opposition leader one wydow as the legitimate president of venezuela. with headlines on al-jazeera i'll have more news for you right after a.j.c. next stay with us. to. let me ask you how worried you are about the increase in hostilities in yemen we li

you knew korea because of the chongqing battle but before that you didn't know, right? >> no. >> had you imagined being there? and what were you thinking at the time? >> getting home alive was the prevailing thought, to help your buddies. you watch your buddy's back and hope they're watching your back and hope that you get home. >> didn't you regret? >> no, no, no. no. i think of the recent wars that the united states has involved itself in, i think the korean war was the one that produced the best results for a number of reasons. the invasion from the north was initially defended by the people of the -- the korean people of the south. so, americans went in, and others. the united nations went in to help the korean people of the south help themselves, and they did. and then after the war was over, the economic build up of korea was just astounding. >> tell me about your typical day of your mission. what was the situation? did you move from kempo to one of those mountains and moving all around all the time? or did you station in one camp? and tell me about your typical d

movement, how does it feel to look back at the original goals of the movement and to see people like chongqingse the phrase civil rights act in reference to himself? is that bewildering to you? >> it is bewildering and painful because i left the movement because i realized that many of the people who suffered most from a poor blacks did not benefit from the change. that they are demographics was used by some of those leaders. it's more class than it is race. and so they use that and now race is being used to deflect attention away from the failures of people running those institutions. the question is why our black kids failing in school systems run by their own people? when eric holder was a u.s. attorney in washington, d.c., a lot of people were shot by the police, but they were black police shooting black kids and not one was prosecuted. but there was no public outcry because the illegality or evil wears a black face, then it escapes detection pier that is what is wrong with looking life through the prism of race. >> tucker: it doesn't make anybody better, that is for sure. why do you think

in the huge south—western metropolis of chongqing, home to tens of millions of people, i red flood warningompletely submerged as rising waters lead to conditions not seen this bad in decades. nearly half of all china's provinces have been affected, but in six of them, the situation has become especially severe. more than 170 major rivers are flooding as this emergency stretches into its third week. even hubei province, after all it's been through with the coronavirus, is in the firing line. the weather isn't due to change in a hurry. translation: it's predicted that the rainy season in the middle and lower reaches of the yangtze river will be longer than usual, with very high levels of rain. under this impact, we're expecting the yangtze to be hit by more regionalfloods. landslides have clogged the spillways of overfilling dams. hundreds of reservoirs have had to urgently discharge massive amounts of flood water. chinese rescue teams are accustomed to crises like this, but even they are being stretched to the limit by the scale of the flooding, as well as the unrelenting rain and surging r

and 8 children have drowned in the river in southwestern china it happened in the city of chongqing chinese state media say they drowned after one of them fell into a river on sunday and the others jumped in to help the bodies of the elementary school students were recovered on monday morning those are the headlines here on al-jazeera be back with more news in half an hour next on our jazeera it's head to head to stay with us. not happy here then you can leave there bringing drugs to bringing crime they're rapists. racism we saw jimmy corruption accusations of collusion and love affairs with dictators donald trump's presidency has been engulfed by tales. from day one. as many still support the president and say he's doing wonders for the u.s. economy but with many economists predicting a recession potential big trouble for the trump economy some beginning to wonder if trump is headed for a defeat in next year's election my guest tonight though is stephen moore one of america's most famous conservative voices on the economy and an advisor to the trump 2020 campaign these argue that the presi

abraham lincoln sold writing the emancipation of which is apparently on target for tomorrow, and chongqing'sights in black lives matter came up with the twitter messages a few days ago and said the following, is that i think the statue of the white european likeliness should also come down. all murals and stained glass windows of the and his mother should also come down. i so know is next on the list for bringing down statues. i think the more people get away from the serious issue that they brought up and get into the destruction of cultural artifacts and tearing down our history, the more they discredit the because they represent, the more insane they look in the more people want a total cracked on this effort which has gone far away from the legitimate concern they raised. >> ed: various statues have come down, they even tried to pull down andrew jackson the other night outside of the white house, and they were not successful. why haven't democrats spoken out about this? >> i think that these folks want to see the pot started. they want to see black folks agitated. this happens every four