when the weather's good you can see mount fuji in the distance. today it's a little too cloudy so you can't make it out. i'm glad you could visit! it would be great to see you again next time you're in tokyo! bye bye! >> mount fuji may have been shrouded in mist there, but we can promise you a glimpse of north africa's fabled atlas mountains, which spread out over more than 2000 kilometers across morocco, algeria, and tunisia. it's a region which has been hard hit by extreme weather events recently ranging from floods to unexpected heat waves. as a result, the intergovernmental panel on climate change is predicting an almost 50% drop in agricultural yields over the next 10 years. already, moroccan highlanders are casting about for new ways of earning a living. >> more than 100,000 people live in the region around the bin el ouidane reservoir lake in the atlas mountains. life here is hard. many would like to move away if they could. people like this farmer. his fields overlook the reservoir, some 1000 meters above sea level. idris bakur could no lo

fuji had the rare pleasure of seeing japan's highest peak bathed in the glow of the year's first suprise sunrise. it's a population destination on new year's day. this year about 70 guests witnessed the site. the sun's rays first struck the snow covered peak before 7:00 a.m. within about ten minutes, the entire mountain side was glowing red as guests hurried to take pictures. >> it's magnificent. >> i feel like the scenery gives me enough energy for the new year. >>> a baby chimpanzee at a zoo in japan is attracting a lot of attention. she was born partially paralyzed and had to be hand reared by zoo keepers, but that special care has helped her grow stronger. >> she was born at the zoo -- she had a difficult delivery. her mother had never given birth before and there were difficulties in her labor. so she was given an assisted delivery, but moki had no heart beat when she was born. the zoo staff struggled to save her life. she was placed in intensive care. her mother was one of the staff who kept a close watch on her. she began to grow. >> we didn't think she'd survey vif, so we were ve

. >>> visitors at a hot spring resort at the foot of mount fuji a had the rare pleasure of seeing japan's highest peak bathed in the glow of the year's first sunrise. the resort in the village in central japan is a popular tourist destination on new year's day. this year 70 guests witnessed the world heritage site shining red in the year's first sun beams. the sun's rays first struck the snow covered peak before 7:00 a.m. within ten minutes the entire mountain side was glowing red as guests hurried to take pictures. >> translator: it's magnificent. i'm so glad i came here. >> translator: i feel like the scenery gives me enough energy for the new year. >>> and that's "newsline" for this hour. i'm gene otani in tokyo wishing you happy holidays. ar ago. the trio was denied bail. a new year's eve stampede in shanghai. 36 people dead and dozens injured. china's president calling on officials to quickly determine the cause. and efforts to recover more bodies from the java sea hampered by bad weather. we will have more from our correspondents in indonesia. thank you for joining us here on "franc

when you see mount fuji, take a picture. they have no idea which time will come out of the window and the image they have is not particularly good-looking. a lot of the times, they miss it. i had a piece of software developed that shows you the targets, which lends size you want -- lens size you want, had a scrollback primer -- timer and would show the track of your orbits. you could hopefully photograph them with higher reliability. this was a far superior system then was on the space station at the time. i did take some pictures of the coast of miami, florida. there was much more urban sprawl, decrease in the wetlands. i tried to show how the earth had gotten better. sadly, i found zero of those cases. one more thing to talk about about this program. this program was so successful that even while i was in orbit my teammates became reliant on it. all of their targets were in my program. whenever their targets would come into view, they would say sorry, we outrank you and we need the window. i would be set aside to take pict