but instead it flew over japan over the area of hokkaido of course causing great anxiety there craig leeson has more from tokyo. the missile launch followed a familiar pattern it came early morning two minutes before seven local time with japan in its path launched from the capital pyongyang the missile through three thousand seven hundred kilometers over the northern japanese island of hokkaido reaching a height of seven hundred seventy kilometers before crashing to the pacific ocean. just minutes after sirens sounded in her cairo as a public alert was issued residents had mixed feelings. against the just doesn't feel real i really don't know what it'll do it gives me the shivers i feel like telling them to stop it now the response from neighbors was swift south korea's national security council held an emergency meeting the country's new president ordered to counter fire with a missile test of its own the drill was pre-planned in preparation for another north korean test but. just not calling again fired a ballistic missile obviously disregarding international community's criticisms and w

security council so we've got a lot to get to with our guests in a moment first this report from craig leeson into. the missile launch followed a familiar pattern it came early morning two minutes before seven local time with japan in its path launched from the capital pyongyang the missile through three thousand seven hundred kilometers over the northern japanese island of hokkaido reaching a height of seven hundred seventy kilometers before crashing to the pacific ocean. just minutes after sirens sounded in her as a public alert was issued residents had mixed feelings you begin to just doesn't feel real i really don't know what it'll do it gives me the shivers i feel like telling them to stop it now the response from neighbors was swift south korea's national security council held an emergency meeting the country's new president ordered to counter fire with a missile test of its own the drill was pre-planned in preparation for another north korean test. not calling again fired a ballistic missile obviously disregarding international community's criticisms and warnings and the un security co

raises the tension in the region and it is an acceptable and i was just now from our visitors craig leeson who's following developments from tokyo. certainly this threat was considered and expected by the japanese because of the support that this country is giving to its alliance partners the united states over the recent strengthening of the u.n. sanctions against north korea but your pain is taking this threat very seriously given the recent hydrogen bomb test that took place two weeks ago a bomb that was ten times stronger than the one dropped by the united states on hiroshima and the missile that was launched across the north of japan so it is a very serious threat the defense systems here have been strengthened or will be strengthened we've been told certainly that japan is hoping the united states in that regard by shipping fuel out to these ages destroyers these anti missile destroyers that are in the sea of japan these are part of a range of defense mechanisms that been set up by the alliance which include the missile system in south korea. and we have the patriot battery here in j

well we have correspondent craig leeson in tokyo with reaction from japan but first let's cross live to hundred thomas he's in the south korean capital seoul and through. the south koreans have clearly been responding to this launch what they've been saying well it's national security council briefing that went on a meeting that went on chaired by the south korean president in that began an hour after the launch there really got on with that it went on for about two hours and a statement was released after that meeting i'll read you a little bit of that the president in that statement strongly condemn north korea's provocation despite the united nations unanimous decision on resolution two three seven five it warns in this statement north korea's continuous provocations will only aggravate north korea's isolation diplomatically and economically now at the end of that briefing the president himself gave a statement a bit about now. in this situation having a dialogue with north korea is impossible north korea will face even stronger sanctions and pressures from the international commu

weapons and place them on top of ballistic missiles like the one which crossed the country today craig leeson al-jazeera tokyo. well china's foreign ministry has also responded to the missile launch on hand r.t. we've seen that peacefully solving the nuclear issue on the peninsula through formal diplomatic means is slowly becoming the consensus of the international community at the same time there are more and more people who have realized that sanctions are not the way to solve the problem the most pressing task is that all sides in question immediately stop threatening and provoking comments that create more tensions on the peninsula now russia iran and turkey have agreed on the borders of a so-called deescalation zone and so here's the northern edler province the details are worked out of the sixth round of severe talks in the cover capital a starner at levels mostly under the control of opposition groups a million civilians live in the area the borders of the other three deescalation zones were great at previous talks they are in northern homs province eastern go-to and the rebel controll

latest provocation what would have latest from so on the united nations in a moment but first craig leesonwith this report from tokyo. the missile launch followed a familiar pattern it came early morning two minutes before seven local time with japan in its path launched from the capital pyongyang the missile flew three thousand seven hundred kilometers over the northern japanese island of hokkaido reaching a height of seven hundred seventy kilometers before crashing to the pacific ocean. just minutes after sirens sounded in her cairo is a public alert was issued residents had mixed feelings were beginning to just doesn't feel real i really don't know what it'll do it gives me the shivers i feel like telling them to stop it now the response from neighbors was swift south korea's national security council held an emergency meeting the country's new president ordered to counter fire with a missile test of its own the drill was pre-planned in preparation for another north korean test. just not going again fired a ballistic missile obviously disregarding the international community's criticism

where he helped launch india's first bullet train project made possible by a huge japanese loan craig leeson reports. a world cup fit for royalty india's prime minister narendra modi blessing japanese prime minister shinzo and his wife for their friendship and the economic gifts they bring with them it's an important visit preparations in modi's home state of gujarat been going on for months. no trip to india would be complete without a visit to its famous tourist locations but eventually it was down to business tokyo is now india's third largest foreign direct investment helping it develop everything from its roads and buildings to its automotive industry and the scope has become even bigger with the launch of a new bullet train project japan is a pioneer of high speed rail networks and the project at the center of this collaboration with india is a high speed link between i made a bet and mumbai india's first high speed train and one which will significantly reduce the travel time between the two cities japan is providing eighty one percent of the money for the seventeen billion dollar pro

weapons and place them on top of ballistic missiles like the one which crossed the country today craig leeson al-jazeera tokyo. well let's take a closer look at north korea's missile development over the past few months it tested a hydrogen bomb two weeks ago it's six nuclear test and most powerful to date the u.n. security council impose tougher sanctions in response a few weeks earlier north korea fired an intermediate range ballistic missile over northern japan that was on august the twenty ninth in total pyongyang has fired twenty one missiles in fourteen tests since february and that includes its test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile in july. all right let's bring in our guests now in so we have bruce harrison a journalist who's based in the south korean capital joining us from exeter in england aden force the carter senior research fellow in sociology at multan korea at leeds university in singapore we have graham own web and research fellow at the rajaratnam school of international studies welcome to you all. i'm guessing you're all feeling exactly the same as me a profo

traveled that missile rather may have traveled over the japanese island of her qaeda let's speak to craig leeson he's in the japanese capital tokyo right now what is being said in japan about this latest missile test. very little as you said that has been confirmed about the to. identify missile what we do know is that it was launched from somewhere around pyongyang just before. time and that the missile flew across the arm of the card which is the. to the north of japan and it is the physic south korea concerned that in fact took place. to see what kind of a missile it was whether it was in fact a test launch or whether it was. a regression japan of course he's on. we're starting to see some warnings beginning to come through now. ideas from here on in it's going to be a matter of determining what kind of missile it was the trajectory that it was in from the time when it was an i.c.b.m. an economy and medium range missile and exactly what the nature of the bulge was craig do stay with me i just want to bring you and everyone else the latest lines that we're getting in from the chip japanese chi

weapons and place them on top of ballistic missiles like the one which crossed the country today craig leeson al-jazeera tokyo. rose and jordan joins us live now from the united nations in new york and we were just hearing in craig's report of the call by japan for an emergency meeting of the u.n. security council but what are they expected to do or say well it's not clear if there is going to be any decisive action coming out of this emergency closed door meeting at the security council in about two hours time r.e.m. but clearly given the timing of this latest intermediate range ballistic missile four days after the security council passes a new set of incredibly tough sanctions according to diplomats this is of course a matter of law are certainly there's going to be a lot of discussion about whether sanctions should be tightened certainly there will be discussions about possible other options but in terms of actual action by the security council it's probably fair to say that they're going to come out and tell reporters that they're going to keep talking. of course hearing about the new ro

arrive to andrew thomas there in seoul andrew thank you let's cross over now to tokyo and talk to craig leeson who's there for us craig the japanese prime minister shinzo condemning this latest launch in the strongest possible terms what else is even saying. well that's right here i back from an economic summit in india and straight away spoke to media and called for an emergency meeting of the un security council he also called on the un security security council to immediately implement those tougher sanctions which we saw them ratify on choose to those who pushed through by the united states with japan support and china and russia support at the time he's also called on the international community to unite as one and condemn the north koreans and also try and force them to stop what he calls these provocations now that is something that we're likely to see happen given the kind of reaction we've seen from the united states and certainly from south korea and japan this morning there was very little danger however to civilians in the north of the country the missile flew across and landed in

weapons and place them on top of ballistic missiles like the one which crossed the country today craig leeson al-jazeera tokyo are china correspondent a train brown is in beijing so age and we are now hearing from china saying that this the latest launch is regrettable what else what else are you hearing there. well of course the big question now richelle is given north korea continues to thumb its nose at the international community and also china its one and only ally will china now go along with the sort of sanctions that the united states wanted to impose on north korea like cutting off the oil china has always been reluctant to do that i think possibly china might agree to something incremental and gradual against north korea i don't think china would agree to something that was major and certain because that's not really beijing style on friday the language was certainly more pointed at the china foreign ministry daily briefing the foreign ministry spokeswoman said that it wasn't china's fault that there was a crisis on the korean peninsula she got quite defensive and techy and her lang

weapons and place them on top of ballistic missiles like the one which crossed the country today craig leeson al-jazeera tokyo well we can go straight to cell where kathy novak is standing by for us and kathy it simmers i think in less less than an hour that the north korean president has made it clear just why he is carrying on with this test and. yes a couple of lines coming out of the north korean state news agency this morning saying north korea says the leader kim jong un guided the launching drill of the hawse on twelve rocket on friday the was on troll rocket is north korea's intermediate range missile the same kind of missile that flew over japan on august the twenty ninth and indeed the same kind of missile that north korea was using in its enveloping fire threats against one you'll recall that it made threats against saying that it was threatening to fire for twelve missiles over japan towards why so this is the kind of missile that it is saying it used in this latest launch and casey and it goes on to say kim jong un says the final goal is to establish quote equilibrium of real for

but first let's go to craig leeson who's in the japanese capital tokyo craig so the japanese prime minister shinzo condemning this latest launch in the strongest possible terms what else has he been saying yes well he was very swift to to condemn it he arrived back from a summit in india and met with the media straight away and he called on an emergency meeting with the un security council. the international community to unite as one against the north korean provocation as he called it he did say that japan had a handle on the situation shortly after the launch and to that end they issued a jailor to the civilian population in northern japan which sends messages to mobile phones and allows them to understand to hear information from radio and television which gives them an alert that this was a missile that went across the top of japan so it wasn't seen as a threat to the civilian population has also asked the u.n. security council to thoroughly implement the strongest sanctions which were imposed against north korea on choose day and they want that strengthened immediately he says that onl

weapons and place them on top of ballistic missiles like the one which crossed the country today craig leeson al-jazeera tokyo. well said jordan joins us live from the united nations in new york was and they're about to sit down and meet we're hearing from the likes of rex tillerson also from the national security advisor in the u.s. saying really it's up to every nation to do everything they can support pressure on north korea but do you getting the sense as they go into that meeting that china and russia are willing to do that well both the chinese and russian ambassadors declined reporters on offers to all come address them just as there are going into this closed door meeting the french ambassador also to not close speaking to reporters right now the ambassadors who have spoken all agree that there needs to be much more work done to make certain that the two do such of sanctions recently imposed on north korea actually are implemented because there is a belief that they can make a difference in deterring pyongyang from continuing to expand its nuclear weapons program now she had no this i

prime minister shinzo our hopes the sanctions will pressure north korea into changing its policies craig leeson has more now from tokyo the sanctions don't go quite as far as the japanese head of hoped for they were looking for full sanctions in a ban a complete ban on crude oil exports in the freezing of kim jong un's assets and certainly that's what they are asked russian president vladimir putin to agree to drink talks in blood of all stock at the eastern economic forum last week that he told by the leader of japan that wasn't possible and he preferred dialogue but this goes a long way to meeting that certainly it's middle ground for both sides and they said he was happy in fact he was highly appreciative of the result and that it was a unanimous and rapid vote and said it went a long way to showing that the international community was willing to put pressure on north korea to change its policy this of course means that japan once again becomes a target for north korean vitriol and could in fact be a target once again for missile test launches across the top of the country that has led the j

extremely provocative and outrageous and raises the tension in the region and it is an acceptable craig leeson is following developments out of tokyo. certainly this threat was considered and expected by the japanese because of the support that this country is giving to its alliance partners the united states over the recent strengthening of the u.n. sanctions against north korea but japan is taking this threat very seriously given the recent hydrogen bomb test that took place two weeks ago a bomb that was ten times stronger than the one dropped by the united states on hiroshima and the missile that was launched across the north of japan so it is a very serious threat the defense systems here have been strengthened or will be strengthened we've been told certainly that japan is hoping the united states in that regard by shipping fuel out to these ages destroyers these anti missile destroyers that are in the sea of japan these are part of a range of defense mechanisms that been set up by the alliance which include the missile system in south korea. and we have the patriot battery here in japan

weapons and place them on top of ballistic missiles like the one which crossed the country today craig leeson al-jazeera tokyo and enter thomas joins us live now from seoul so. north korea generally telegraphs these types of things the world knows that they're coming so what's expected but having said that what is the reaction out of seoul. well the missile launch certainly was expected north korea made no secret of the fact that the u.n. resolution passed in new york on monday was not going to put them off their ambitions they said explicitly that they were going to push on at a faster rate than ever and that seems to be what they are doing so this missile launch that took place at six fifty seven local time here on the korean peninsula and straight away within an hour south korea's national security council had met chaired by the president president moon and they looked at what their political and the military response will be they put out a statement condemning the missile launch shortly after that meeting president moon himself gave some comments as well doing the same and interestingly i

weapons and place them on top of ballistic missiles like the one which crossed the country today craig leeson al-jazeera tokyo china correspondent atrium brown is covering this friend beijing and when this happens and it seems to happen often now the eyes do turn to china for some sort of reaction what are you hearing adrian. well as always happens when north korea carries out a missile or a nuclear test there are strong words from beijing condemnation and once more there has been today but the words after a while start to sound a little hollow to some people the foreign ministry spokeswoman said that china condemns north korea's latest actions but there was also a slight tetchiness to her language today it was directed not just at north korea but also very much at the united states she said that china is not the core issue china is not raising tensions on the korean peninsula sanctions are not the ultimate solution everyone knows this so the language directed at both appear on yang and particularly his state a little bit stronger this time china as we know is in something of a bind it reluct

cases still to be heard the students in tokyo say they will launch an appeal against the ruling craig leeson al-jazeera tokyo. singapore has named its first female president but the public didn't get a vote on the matter. is a former speaker of parliament from the mill a minority of singapore ians was supposed to go to the polls next week but yak up was the only candidates who qualified in the race for the first time the constitution was changed to ensure that only a candidate from the malaya minority was eligible to become president the philippine army continues to fight an ice a linked group which besieged the city of what are we on the southern island of mindanao where martial law was imposed in may from that german island dog and takes a look at the economic impact of the conflict. doesn't allow we would says these are the worst times has been the wood carver all his life pieces like this one take at least six months to make in the past he was easily able to sell his carvings not anymore. my children don't know how to make these and there are very few of us who can do it. and nobody buys

weapons and placed them on top of ballistic missiles like the one which crossed the country today craig leeson al-jazeera tokyo. well let's get the reaction from the united states now we're joined by cos pantone patty she's my for us and washington so how is this being viewed the latest launch and the u.s. patty. well so far this morning we've been checking twitter off and that's how president often replies to these sorts of incidents so far he's tweeting more about sports channel here in the united states hasn't really meant a thing about north korea but we have seen the u.s. disarmament ambassador come out and say they need to exhaust every sin single diplomatic option available saying of course military force is still on the table but that they want to pursue another diplomatic option and we saw secretary of state rex tillerson come out and say those recent u.n. sanctions he said those are the floors not the ceiling of what they want to see done and as he mentioned they are looking to see if the russia and china can do more undoubtedly they'll try to bring back that u.n. security council re

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these reckless launches by taking direct actions of their own and we've got our correspondents craig leeson in tokyo mike hanna in washington and adrian brown in beijing first let's cross live to seoul and thomas andrew what do we know about this launch. well that missile was launched at six fifty seven local time on the korean peninsula that is just over three hours ago in fact exactly three hours ago that missile was in the air it flew for nineteen minutes we're told by the south korean military and it flew for three thousand seven hundred kilometers in a north west easterly direction now had that missile being flown in a south westerly direction it would have flown towards a quorum where the united states of course has a big military presence so that in itself is significant the distance it flew very very significant north korea had made it clear after the united nations part its resolution at beginning of the week that it was not going to be deterred from testing missiles and from nuclear tests this seems to be evidence of that a test so swiftly after that u.n. resolution was passed is

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a moment adrian brown is in the chinese city of dangdang very close to the north korea border craig leeson is in tokyo but first to kathy novak in the south korean capital seoul kathy what's been the reaction there. while the north korean ambassador has been speaking at a u.n. sponsored conference on disarmament in geneva saying that north korea condemns in the strongest terms the latest u.n. sanctions going on to say the washington regime is fired up for political economic and military confrontation obsessed with the wild game of reversing north korea's development of nuclear force which has already reached the completion phase now we have heard from north korea's foreign ministry ahead of the vote warning that in the north was prepared to inflict great pain and suffering on the u.s. if the sanctions did go ahead south korea says that it believes that the north is preparing for another missile test at any time and indeed the defense ministry said today that it is monitoring activities that north korea's nuclear research facility and says it is preparing for another nuclear test at any tim

cases still to be heard the students in tokyo say they will launch an appeal against the ruling craig leeson al-jazeera tokyo. a robot has made its debut conducting a world class orchestra the swiss to sign the yumi led the look of monaco orchestra to open the first international festival of robotics in the italian city of pisa you'll be managed to upstaged. by the orchestra as regular conductor says he's not too concerned about losing his job any time soon we basically had to find time to understand he's movements then when we found the way everything was pretty easy and the flexibility of the arms of you me is absolutely unthinkable not even incredible unthinkable for a machine it is absolutely fantastic and the technician were fantastic just to to make everything perfect especially in the length and in the speed of the gesture which is very important there's a standoff in the u.s. over driverless vehicles congress and the top administration want to get more of these cars on the roads quickly but a federal safety agency is warning that more regulation is needed before that happens diane es

to have reaction to this here the council's vote from around asia we're going to check in with craig leeson in tokyo in just a minute first let's go to south korean capital seoul and wayne hey wayne north korea has warned that there are going to be repercussions if the sanctions go ahead how is that being interpreted in seoul. yes will be no very busy morning so far tuesday morning with various governments departments here in seoul giving their response to what they have heard unfold at the united nations security council of course they welcoming the decision to introduce tougher sanctions against north korea they would have been deeply involved in those negotiations behind the scenes with the united states even though south korea is not at the moment a member of the u.n. security council they have been expecting for several days now for north korea to respond to any tougher u.n. security council sanctions it is been threatening for some time to launch another ballistic missile in fact since it launched its last missile the intermediate what range one that flew over japan they said that at

china correspondent adrian brown in beijing for us let's cross live to our correspondent in tokyo craig leeson so sins are producing some very strong statements there what else is even saying. yes well he arrived back from this summit that he was attending in india and was greeted by this missile launch he's called for an emergency meeting of the un security council and for the un security council up to that point to implement the strong sanctions or stronger sanctions that would imposed against north korea on choose day and that was bought by the united states and backed by south korea so clearly they don't very happy with the current state of affairs but he did say that japan was prepared for it in that they tracked the missile and that in fact they were able to issue a jail which is a public warning to people in the north of japan shortly after that me saw it was launched and what that does is it sends a message to people's mobile phones it also makes radio and television announcements and gives fair warning that a missile is trekking across the country their main concern was that something