continental europe is now behind them people standing in the queue for the ferry across the english channel can hardly believe that a bunch of mad russians has managed to make it all the way here from moscow with every minute new military vehicles arrive it's beginning to seem as though everyone in europe has put on a uniform and is heading for england. across the water is the port of dover and from there the festival site is close at hand. life in a military camp doesn't just around hardship. having left behind the battlefield many manage to find the strength to change into dress. uniform. wearing glamorous period clothing the ladies are also invited out to a night of swing and joint music. this marquee with a dance floor is perfect as people see the same way the grandparents did. the british band to join basis kicks off. i think the music that we play on the music. coming back now because. a lot of people find it here the young people think it's near the old people remember it but i think also people are getting fed up of just. you know electric pop music and also somebody suggested that

we are seeing showers moving into western continental europe now but it is not enough to put a dent in that heat. it is still incredibly hot across much of the continent. cool and wet towards the north. we look at 17 in stockholm and 16 in moscow. down to 27 in berlin and a drop of 10 degrees pch . it is still a very lot day. we are looking at budapest as well as madrid. i will leave you with your extended forecast. >>> and that concludes this edition of "newsline." i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. thanks very much for joining us.

. >> continental europe has been suffering under dangerously high temperatures for the past few weeks, and the eurozone crisis, which is now over 1000 days old, is heating up again, and greece is back in a frying pan. it was a two-year extension on its latest 130 billion euro bailout loan from the so-called troika, which only agreed last month. this week, the new greek prime minister hosted jean-claude juncker, who along with the rest of the troika has twice failed grease out. the official line was we have a clear process in place, which is code for no changes to the deal torturously agreed six months ago. body language experts have been employed to see if there was any change to the mood music. >> you have to discuss the other dimensions of the problem when we are taking on the findings of the troika. >> and economy in prolonged recession with soaring unemployment, particularly among young people, cannot stand on its own feet. >> after words, mr. samaras invited mr. juncker for further talks in his car. also jetted off to berlin for talks with angela merkel, who he hopes is upbeat af

could be a bright spot in the auto sector as opposed to continental europe. let's pick up, those on the retail sector. retail sales here in the uk, a little bit stronger, olympics having no impact. this is july. olympics got going in august. what's your own view of actually what's happened? because, you know, westfield and stratford are saying 10% of our traffic and west end saying it's been absolutely dead. >> i think that's the story. westfield did great because you had to get through westfield to go to the olympics so they picked up some traffic there. if you look at the west end the first weekend, the opening ceremony they were talking about traffic down double digits. people were scared out of town and clearly that hit retail. as you went through the olympics the second weekend traffic wasn't as bad, it was probably down low single digits and picked up as people came back into town. we'll still see in august. >> august should be stronger than july. >> it should. and the other thing to think about is the weather. i mean we had two months it's been raining

continental u.s. here. throughout the labor day weekend temperatures remaining into about the mid-30s except off to the northwest. vancouver and seattle. over towards europe an elongated area of low pressure across scandinavia and poland and experiencing cloud cover and rain showers. even northern italy due to a stagnant and lingering low pressure area continuing to spin out across much of this region. behind it high pressure has set in across spain. this is unfortunate because widespread wildfires are currently occurring across much of this area. doesn't look like any rain is going to be on tap in the near future. lisbon at 33, london as well at 22. across much of the northern portions of the uk, i might be experiencing rain showers with cloud cover through the weekend. as far as the paralympics doesn't look like any rain will be on tap for you. eastern europe, much more cooler for you. stockholm with a high of 17 and moscow with 14 on your saturday. here is a look at the extended forecast. >>> as we've been reporting a magnitude 7.9 earthquake has occurred in the pacific ocean off the east coast of the philippines. at 12:47 utc on friday. there is a pos

continental quest is to continue. hearing up for their europa league adventure against turkey side. later on thursday it's unknown territory for the dagestani club to qualify for the group stage of europe'ssecond tier competition for the very first time michael moore. after pulling off an impressive one one draw with brampton russian premier league leaders and it's in petersburg last weekend if the angie my hunch is now focusing on the first leg of the final hurdle to the group stages of the euro the league i don't consider your league as a burden but but of course we like to be in champions league and i was also. used to playing champions league you can bury did burden on the condition that the discord and not just to feel players plus goalie but the discord is a quality wise more broad and there i have my concerns. although losing players through an overloaded schedule is inevitable he did must be elated knowing he'll have nearly all his players at his disposal for the game including african strike do similar to a last minute thrower who have both been absent due to injuries he will however be without influential midfielder who suffered a knee injury meanwhile and she's ever present ro

europe. if this environment stays as i describe it, i think this is a realistic guidance. >> thanks so much for joining us. wolfgang shafer, cfo of continentaloining us from hanover. we got a raise guidance today from continental, but the italian carmaker is declining to provide it because of the economic downturn following the meeting of unions. the company that owned chrysler said they will present it with third quarter results in the autumn. also in the sector gm due to report earnings later today. it may have halved in the second quarter. >> in japan two struggling electronics maker sony and sharp were stuck in the red for the may-to-june quarter. we have the story live from tokyo. >> hi. given these results, both companies cut their forecasts for the fiscal year. sony widened to $330 million. sales of flat panel tvs and other electronic devices waned and the strong yen exported profits. it managed to generate some products thanks to sony mobile communications. sharp posted a net lost of $1.7 billion on an operating loss that was twice as bad as estimates. the lcd operations remain sluggish, and the company width cut around 5,000 jobs or

let's go to europe, we are seeing showers moving into western continental europe now. but unfortunately it is not enough to put into the heat. 16 in moscow. 27 in berlin. we are looking in upper 30s in places like budapest as well as, madrid. all right, i will leave you with your extended forecast. >>> one of our lead stories this hour, a japanese journalist has been killed while working in syria. a senior official with the opposition free syrian army says yamamoto was caught in the crossfire in aleppo. she was a freelance journalist working with the group, japan president. she was taken to a hospital in turkey. they say a japanese colleague identified her body. >>> that's all for this edition of "newsline." i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. do stay with us. we'll be back with more of your updates at the top of the hour.