one featured a model of mount fuji. and they set 92 torches aflame along a 2.5 kilometer route. >> translator: as mount fuji has been listed as a world heritage site, people are trying to protect this great mountain. >> people paid special attention to thisyear's festival after mount fuji's recent inclusion as a unesco world heritage site. >>> here are the market figures. >>> time now for a check on the weather with meteorologist sayaka mori. good morning. it's a cool start to the day. what can we expect up ahead? >> yes, catherine, it's like a start of fall, relatively cool with low humidity. sunny skies in tokyo will continue for the next couple of days, but if you look at the north, conditions are different. we're expecting very wet conditions starting this afternoon. damaging winds, thunderstorms and even tornadic activities cannot be ruled out in hokkaido and parts of the tohoku region this afternoon. and across the west, moderate to heavy rain is likely to fall for northern areas of china and further down towards

fuji for an annual fire festival.onks invited revelers to the kitakuji shrine at the foot of the mountain. the festival stretches back more than 00 years. participants have portable shrines to the city. one featured a model of mt. fuji and they set 92 torches aflame along the 2.5 kilometer route. >> translator: as mt. fuji has been registered as a unesco world heritage site, people should strive to protect this great mountain. >> people paid special attention to this year's festival after mt. fuji's inclusion recently as a world registered heritage site. >>> and that is all for this edition of "newsline." i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. thanks very much for watching. captioning sponsored by >> ifill: the obama administration declared today the syrian government did use poison gas on its citizens and the u.s. will hold the assad regime accountable. good evening. i'm gwen ifill. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. on the newshour tonight, after facing sniper fire, u.n. inspectors arrived at the site of the alleged che

we have a, uh, fuji apple from, uh, gold bug farm, placerville. we're gonna just--ooh. just slice that. nice and thin. we have some belgian endive. wanna just make sure to cut 'em in half and cut the core out. we're gonna slice across. do, uh, one more half. it's about an endive and a half per salad. now we have a fennel bulb. we're gonna cut just across, very thin. important to cut the fennel really thin. then we're gonna go to our bowl, put everything in. now we're gonna add some shallot, fine herbs. it's a, uh, herb blend that we use here quite a bit. it's tarragon, chervil, parsley, and chive. this is, uh, chef's blue cheese. it's aged in the sierra nevada, real nice blue cheese. champagne vinaigrette. just drizzle a little in there. then we'll season it with some fresh black pepper, little kosher salt, and just give it-- give it a good mix, make sure the apples aren't all stuck together. then we'll go to our plate. you wanna plate it in stages so that you can kind of build up a little bit of height. yet letting it fall naturally wherever it--wherever it tends to go

we call them fuji. >> i have a question for you devito. as we know in russia, they are incredibly homophobic. politicians say if there are any gay olynpians, why doesn't snowden call out the world's leading homophobe, putin and where is greenwald, why doesn't he come out and do the same thing? >> that is not only a ridiculous conspiracy theory and one of the most convoluted sentences and frankly that sounds -- >> wait a minute. okay. we have a guy that is basically ripping our country apart in terms of national security going to a country that abuses gays. if he has any -- go and say something to them. >> his thing is just spewing out information. >> yes. that's easy when you're in another country. now you're in russia. do that. have some real guts. >> he's also in russia with the way they treat the press, the surveillance programs, he couldn't have picked a more ironic place to go. i will say some of the outrage is silly. if we had the situation reversed. if we had someone here spilling russian secrets, we would be milking them for everyt

a group of object cure in japan living on mount fuji poisoned the tokyo underground with gas less than 20 years ago. you don't have to be einstein to have your hands on gas or the means to distribute it. russia and china say no to war. so do i and most people in this country. >> andrew mitchell. >> mr. speaker. >> hearing george galloway who is one of the most maverick british lawmakers being a thorn in the side of governments of both sides and it is not -- we join him there indeed and as we were listening, suzanne, it is not surprising to hear him absolutely vehemently against any form of military activity. parliament, this is what parliament is at its most fe briel and i am told more than 90 members to want speak today. it is amazing to see this. what is happening today behind closed doors, we'll have a u.s. official briefing members of congress and you don't see this kind of open debate if you will with the president but clearly the president trying to make sure that members of congress are on his side and there is a big debate about whether or not it needs to be authorized before t

fuji heavy jumped up 5.6% and kawasaki heavy soared over 6%. over in china, cement and steelmakers led the gains boosted by beijing's plan to speed up infrastructure development. the eastern city of guangjo became the first city to ease property restrictions. the country's largest listed steelmaker just announced to raise steel prices for september, while cement prices in eastern china have been rebounding for nearly a month. shares of shangfung cement up by 10%. >>> the dow and s&p 500 ticking lower yesterday, extending losses from the previous week. the nasdaq bucked the trend with blackberry and apple boosting the index. joining us from zurich is michael sullivan, head of portfolio strategy and thematic research at credit suisse private bank. michael, thank you so much for joining us today. what do you make of the move in the u.s. markets. i mean, we have seen a little bit of consolidation over the last couple of days. some say this could be the precursor to a much bigger move to the downside. are you in that camp or do you believe we're goi

>> fujis. >> i love lauren hill. her voice is incredible.t? >> wow. >> that could be a tough reunion in jail. >> we're going to sneak a mike to you in a cake. >> all right. how about a check of the weather, al. >> al, you are a bit crazy aren't you? >> a bit >>> thank you, al. good morning to you, bay area. got got a good-looking day shaping up, less humidity out there certainly notice the difference as you walk out the door. plenty of 6 ods out there 68 in sunnyvale. the red flag warning posted for inland spots in the north bay that goes until 5 p.m. we could see dry lightning strikes, isolated if anything does develop. 90 in livermore, 80, redwood city around 64 san francisco, where america's cup will be out on the water later on today. thursday into friday, temperatures level off. >>> today's travel is brought to you by choice hotels. the official hotel of summer. >> on today's travel, if you're trying to sneak in one last trip before the warm summer weather ends, it's not too late to find great deals. >> but you have to book now. he's th