let's go straight to some video from guangdong province. strong storms with heavy downpours and typhoon force winds caused damage in the southern china province of guangdong sunday. a roof of a supermarket was torn off and people lost power after the storm destroyed an electrical wire. some hail was also reported in the province sunday. unfortunately more rain and stormy conditions are expected for the southern areas during the next couple of days. now, it's not too bad today. but as i said, more rain is likely to come from tomorrow, an additional 100 millimeters likely for inland locations of guangdong province and parts of guangxi province. enough to cause more flooding as well as landslides. the reason for the bad weather is that spring warm air is colliding with extremely hot air from the indochina peninsula. as you can see, temperatures extremely soaring. up to 42 degrees in mandalay, myanmar thursday and nearly 40 degrees in many places. stay away from the direct sunshine and watch out for heat stroke. as opposed to the southern areas

back in guangdong, zhou toasts his brother's birthday with friends. but thoughts of what has happened to his missing daughter continue to haunt him. zhou says he will keep looking for her, even if that trail leads him to find her happily adopted by another family, in another country. >> "i would be overjoyed if i could see her. but i would let her to decide whether to stay there or not, because, after all, she has a complete adoptive family there. as her father, i will be much satisfied very happy to see her live in peace. if she wants to stay with me, i would feed her even if i were to beg for food. if not, i would feel satisfied just see her. in fact, my biggest dream is to see her. only then, can my heart rest, or else otherwise, i will never feel at ease for the rest of my life." >> chinese families, like those in other asian nations, have historically shown a preference for sons, who could carry on the family name and support the parents in old age. and the country has long seen a gender gap of more males born than females. but since the advent o

we have warnings for thunderstorms and hail for guangdong and guangxi provinces, an additional 100 millimeters of rain is likely in the next 24 hours. that will raise the potential for flooding and landslides even further. now, to the north, looking dry for most of the northern half of china, but rain is likely for much of japan. rain over the south coast of central japan will be spreading to the north while intensifying and there will be another spot for the heavy rain over western japan within the next 24 hours. rainy weather in tokyo from tonight into thursday morning. 18 degrees for the high tomorrow. so dropping to only 12 degrees for the high. that's a sharp drop for you compared to what we saw on your wednesday. and cooling down to 17 in shanghai, as well. but quite soaring to 37 degrees in bangkok, with hazy conditions. now, across the americas, we are seeing beneficial rain finally falling over the southern parts of california. but not just rain. there is a risk of thunderstorms and hail. with potential flooding. this system is more of a concern. it's going to be producing severe thun

we have imported a hunted man in the interests of rainfall in guangdong province in the past twenty four hours looks like it. any additional rainfall is unwelcome but another one hundred million teachers are so could it be falling across the area for the next twenty four hours. heavy rain warnings and thunderstorm warnings are still in prison when sentenced on the strand in china. across the bigger picture we have a low pressure system developing over sea of japan. this is going to be leaving behind the effects now this is due to the opera called it a hair but it also clashing with the warm air from the truth that the commission as well as the east tennessee and going to be developing over japan which means that we likely to see winter precipitation up in the north but very odd heavy showers and thunderstorms will be likely to mix with fork to get worse even into writing the piece carry umbrella if you are going to be out in about a cross and the country on friday are likely to see some creepy lightning associated with that too the new law about the weather to deteriorate so last night w

nine is commonplace and my stars that can stand in the guangdong provinces high nine and temperatures are going to be orange and in many places in asia to get cranky decreased the bank received twenty four the contemporary state of samoa like mid may the genial eat there because the bank but cooled down to eighteen degrees and there's that actually fit a couple of degrees higher than where she prepares to hear. across the south we are watching or tropical high incline and it paid back as if the quadrangle in parts of the mindanao bring in stormy conditions it could very slow moving system will likely cross and the midsection of the philippines over the weekend as a tropical storm and then to find a lot of grateful for many areas and because of the slow movement significant amount of things like lee parsons beach diet including park luton which i think i am lucky to last year so what type of lighting installed i'd be here in the philippines. hands here we have another disturbance that the tropical type one intact in the house and moved a whole lot and then a grueling day by day the sky

village in southern china have voted in a local election for the second time people in walcott in guangdong province cast ballots for members of the village committee. local authorities took the unusual step of ranging from voting and vote counting to take place in . it really wanted to publicize the democratic reforms. people began paying attention to work on two years ago when authorities first of the witches to build in a local election. since then it's been known as democracy village. that first election followed year's protests by villagers after officials seized parliament i hope michael will help determine the future of our village. incumbent mayor his local communist party chief he was re elected even though some villages are unhappy about slow progress in returning the land. the snow was falling in moscow late in the season. our meteorologist michael mori has more on that second. you think will start with heavy snowfall in moscow is scary like a winter wonderland. the court defending him. the snowstorm blanketed monster with that's no less than twenty four hours tuesday. that there

villagers in we can in china's southern guangdong province have relaxed in their buildings. she's a former protest leader the villagers made headlines three years ago by throwing out communist party officials accusing them of illegal land grabs. however the jubilation that that has now given way to a sovereign democracy failing to take hold. it was pressed to explain this good to see who can grant deadline will blind you to do a thing for them to andrew about cleanliness rt officials who they accused of corruption. now three years on from the siege of wood and threw them in his oct lead to real change that it is great even if the polls on monday to choose a new village committee and did relax and protest leaders but they remain angry that nothing is being done to it and i'm sold off. you can eat. utilities in the mall but it will not know nobody has a good impression in our village officials were policing can solve our problems. they've deleted everything. the land problem how many years as a going out. nothing has changed as a single man the problems in this place one key p

interestingly, xi zhengping's father was the top party official in guangdong at that time.external pressure provides useful political cover and helps clear away domestic obstacles to refor. famously the former premier used china's negotiation join the wto as tool to push reforms that dramatically weakened the state-owned sector and laid a foundation for a decade of rapid growth. today the trans-pacific partnership and a u.s.-china bilateral investment treaty appear to be playing a similar role encouraging chinese leaders to advance new pilots as the shanghai free trade zone opened last september. but it is uncertain whether these tactics are suited to addressing the challenges china faces today. experimentation was a useful strategy for boosting manufacturing but new experiments like the shanghai ftc are centered on promotion of service which are porous and more difficult to contain. moreover the size and complexity of china's economy and its interdependence with the global economy make managing external dynamic for more complicate than in dong era. this provides backdrop f