harry fawcett al jazeera. >> much more on that on our website www.aljazeera.com. >> secretary of state john kerry and secretary ash carter meet with their japanese counterparts to develop new guidelines for japan's military. >>> and in nepal aftershocks continue as the death toll continues to climb aid agencies say they cannot reach those in need quickly enough. >> after eight years 18 years the plan would give japan a bigger role in its military at a time of concern in china's growing power and north korea's nuclear power. these guidelines are being updated for the first time since 1997. what kinds of changes are we talking about here? >> what is significant it goes back to world war ii, fully 70 years this year since the end of that conflict, and the japanese public and government has had aversion to any hint of militarism and any hint that it would be used overseas in anyway, shape or form. there have been pitched debates whether they could send peace keep tours other countries. today they've started to do that. but we see japan increasingly concerned about tension notice region and

harry fawcett, al jazeera seoul. >>> u.s. democratic presidential presidentialingpresidentialingpresidentialing manypresidentialcontender hillary clinton. >> kristin saloomey reports. >> four hours just getting to and from work where she makes just $10 an hour. she says she hasn't had a raise in nearly a decade. >> we really struggling. i mean struggling real bad in the city. so we need the $15 an hour because the cost of living gone up. the transportation gone up. food went up, rent went up so we need the $15 about. >> the fight for 15 started with fast food workers but expanded to include other frustrated low wage workers like agnes. her union the service workers international is behind her. >> that would allow us to take care of our families, so a lot of groups began to coalesce around $15 an hour. >> company mcdonald's says it's increasing its pay to just under $10. that is not nearly enough workers say and will impact only afew employees. rallying outside the business, saying they can't afford increase and will either ha

harry fawcett al jazeera. >> much more on that on our website www.aljazeera.com. >> secretary of state john kerry and secretary ash carter meet with their japanese counterparts to develop new guidelines for japan's military. >>> and in nepal aftershocks continue as the death toll continues to climb aid agencies say they cannot reach those in need quickly enough.

harry fawcett al jazeera, seoul. >> here is a breath of fresh air. >> thank you.l, they have been avoiding each other over the past few weeks. in fact, they've avoided each other for years floyd way weathermayweather and manny pacquiao. dancers were part of the show. mayweather oozing confidence in his arrival ceremony at the mgm grand that will host the fight saturday. and pacquiao snubbed that event and held his event in another hotel. he said he has never felt better before a fight. >> this what i feel right now my confidence is different than other fights that i had. i feel excited. this is it. i have to prove something. like that. my killer instinct my focus this is what i want. >> everybody that is in this arena is the money chain. it's not just all about making money, it's about giving back. and you know, we always try to make a difference. we don't just--we make--of course i make a lot of money but i also like to give back to the american cities, of course, first. >> well, our correspondent. >> if you're going to have an event billed as the fight of the ce

harry fawcett, al jazeera southern china. >>> we'll speak to the award winning, athlete to protestor to fighter after watching his friends die at the hands of the assad regime. that's it for this edition. thanks for watching i'm antonio mora. "america tonight" is up next. i will see you again in an hour. hour. >> "america tonight": life lesson is for children behind bars. >> which is exactly what it sounds like, a bad kid. >> always trying to instigate people trying to get restrained. >> soledad o'brien. also tonight firing

al jazeera harry faugh fawcett reports.are behind the keyboard trend. >> another morning at the keyboard for 8-year-old yoshanie. she has been playing since she was six two to three hours a day. her skill and enthusiasm shine through. across china, an estimated 40 million children are learning the piano, a craze attributed to the lang lun report. >> i have been to one of her concerts when i was very young. my mom used to say to me listen. she is so good. she plays piano so well. she said that over and over again. >> one of china's greatest classical music starts langlang arrived as middle class, one child families were looking for new ways to invest in those children's futures. the result music schools where competition for places means children need to have had private lessons just to get in. >> a few families get together and socialize. many families have pianos now. the parent thinks great. look i have a kid who is well behaved behaved. >> the eyes land where the music school is has a long european influenced history, pi

harry fawcett, al jazeera okinawa, japan. >> so mr. harris i'll go to you. the air base, a lot of people want it, a lot of people don't. who wins who loses and who talks about it first? >> at this point i think governor onaga has a lot in front of him. it does point to a bigger issue not just regarding the bases in japan, but prime minister abe what he has on his mind. to be involved in collective self defense as they write laws to reflect that interpretation so there's a lot of work to do on the part of the abe government to convince the japanese people that the security forces are necessary. to be greeted warmly for making these changes, at the end of the day, for these changes to be effective in the long term they have to be seen as worthwhile at home. in the country as a whole there is a lot of skeptic intix some of the changes the government is introducing. >> mr. takaushi, we touched on this a moment ago. how does the u.s. strengthen its position in the area, without bothering the sleeping giant china? >> first of all china is not a sleeping giant, it

harry fawcett, al jazeera, southern china. >>> and stay with us here on al jazeera, another full bulletinad with lauren taylor in london. ♪ >>> aid starts to trickle in for those trapped by think war in yemen, as air strikes against the houthi rebels continue. ♪ >>> i'm loren taylor this is al jazeera, live from london. also coming up charged with murder a white police officer is behind bars after shooting a black man in the back in south carolina. >>> making new friends. the greece and russian presidents

fawcett, live in seoul. thank you >>> we have a lot more to come here on the al jazeera newshour we hear from migrant workers that say they are understand attack in south africa. plus a delicate peace process in columbia is under threat after f.a.r.c. rebels killed soldiers and in sport why some players struggle to keep their cool in the playoffs. >>> within the past 36 hours there has been an increase in syrian government air strikes over aleppo and idlib. over 120 strikes killed 40 civilians. let's go live to beirut in neighbouring lebanon, and talk to our correspondent. what can you tell us? >> well there's a new horrifying staggering number put out by the syrian observatory for human rights. the number 220,000. it's over 220,000. over 220 in syria have been killed since the beginning of the conflict. there's an uptick in the chaos, in the violence of the past several weeks especially in idlib province if you remember the city of idlib became the second provincial capital to fall to the rebels a group, a coalition led by the al nusra front. the city fell in the last part of march. in the intervening time

al jazeera northern iraq. >> south korea is marking one year since the ferry capsized killing more than 300 people, most of those on board were high school students. harry fawcett takes a look back at the disaster. >> on april 16th last year south korea was confronted with these painful images. a passenger ferry full of school children sinking off the southern coast. the mobile phone footage that emerged over the succeeding days authority more. those children caught between laughter and fear obeying repeated instructions to stay put, trapping them beneath the water. they believe their children are still there. >> how can we go back to a normal life. we know where they are. how can we live without finding our kids and husbands? the government has to help us. >> the last few weeks this has been a daily commute for park and her husband getting as close as they can to the presidential of course, demanding that they return all victims to their families by raising the wreck. a year after the disaster which rocked this country many families still find themselves still fighting on. some to recover the remains of their loved ones. others to find answers. there have been