the grid connecting hokkaido offers the lowest amount of energy compared to other lines.f supplies dwindled, replenishing them would take time. so utilities and government officials have started an energy conservation campaign for winter. >> translator: this year we are expecting severe cold weather. we need to have multiple prevention measures in place in case of power station failure. >> reporter: one of those measures involves requiring their most energy hungry clients to cut consumption. the utility offers rate reductions and in return, the high demand users must save electricity. more and more of those users have been installing something called a demand monitor to track their energy consumption. it advises people to switch off electronic devices when power consumption rises above a set limit. >> translator: we believe we are responsible for cutting our electricity usage as much as possible. it can also contribute to cost reduction. >> reporter: the coldest part of winter is just around the corner in hokkaido, the coldest region of japan. utility managers and governm

in eastern hokkaido. as japan's largest week and she too much winter sure he was in the thick blanket of snow she'll go research links to them. new eye the morning she'll march. today's minimum temperature is ten degrees below zero celsius the roos and tree branches green and the ceiling. water vapor has crystallized to produce a phenomenon called in to us great winter mornings. the bank's institutional talentless despite the cold. a crowd gathers in the early morning silhouettes in the morning mix. this is what has drawn the crap. red crowned cranes officially designated as a special natural monument of japan the grange grow to one hundred fifty centimeters in length. they are elegant stance has long inspired the people of japan while you re crowned cranes remain today. at this species is at risk of extinction. could she know march is one of the few places where these birds can be observed in a group. off eye. chee trains exchange crimes. here are a mating pair. experts believe that these calls reinforce

in the language of hokkaido is needed for the new people the name means quiet day near the middle of the waterway we see salmon swimming upstream to spawn ay ay ay ay. forests lie along the banks of the street the trunks of trees she'll snap which are to their coffers the salmon has been discarded on the ground. soon broadened errors appear by the stream. the nature is the sole source of nutrients that will sustain the years to hibernation. they get one sale and after another until their bellies are full. it is not unusual to encounter brown bears in shibuya tokyo the primeval forest of the peninsula is one of the world's most important brand dear to us. a day. it is a bell result from idle so he eats. but our duty is only half done. before it falls to its mostly erected in preparations made for tomorrow. and. i can. ch seeks to teach the next day the sky leniency are aflame with the reuse of the rising sun. in the distance rice is the highest peak of corner she be no church and i can guy. you're sitting on the second he comes another tool in gene test. leaders scramble for football

hokkaido, you're looking at widespread areas about 50 centimeters. even areas towards the east on the pacific coast, 30 to 40 could trail over here, so a lot of people feeling the effects of this. for the most part, the pacific coast of japan will stay dry, including the kanto area, you're going to see gusty winds out of this. the dry weather will be changing, though. taking a look towards the south, widespread rain showers this weekend across much of southern china, hong kong, taipei. this is going to develop and head off towards east, though, and basically push just south of japan, including the tokyo area, some rain showers coming out of that. next week, enjoy the dry weather while it lasts. tokyo, high of 11, partly cloudy. saturday, seoul with a high of only 1. cloudy for you. beijing at 7. ulan bator, minus 11. on the flip side of that, 30s across the tropics. let's talk about what's going on in the americas, where frigid temperatures are still the big topic. we've been watching this moisture flow out of the pacific ocean and it has started to

from hokkaido down through northern portions of tohoku, basically ski country out here, you are going to be seeing snowfall throughout the rest of the week. farther towards the west, if you're in china, high pressure is going to continue to dominate, unfortunately, not stirring up the atmosphere. northeast monsoon towards the south and the tropics, but nothing organized. expected in the near term portions of the forecast, but still scattered thunderstorms over the philippines and portions of thailand and malaysia, you're going to be seeing afternoon pop-up thunderstorms, temperatures still in the 30s. staying on the topic of the tropics, i want to touch on our severe cyclonic storm. now the equivalent of about a severe tropical storm if this was in the western pacific. winds right now about 110, gusting up to 130 kilometers per hour. the good news with this one, it's expected to weaken and fade out as it heads down there towards the southwest. you're still going to be seeing rain showers near the coastal areas here of india, but really this is not going to be a big weather maker out h

hokkaido. i would have reports of a twenty five centimeters of snow on the next twenty four hours the snow that has immediately sneering one heater and on top of that in addition a very decent meeting is likely that from the stockton in conditions will be looking up snow will be winding down. the korean peninsula and most of which are now looking quite nine. i mean when a plane for most of the china finance lot of them only convinced that the incoming tropical know they need increasing and things are increasing this twelve weeks and going to be as high as one meters. that investors are going to be in that piece in time and hung on the lower temperatures over the north ninety claims for himself and at the precinct and care with sunny skies. now the course the america as the major star in the eco winter storm over the north over the southwestern corner of the canon of the north west in us and after it made lance is a risk of the pooling snow about sixty centimeters of snow is likely for the north

some areas over hokkaido, pretty incredible amount of snow over the last several days. this is adding more of the white stuff. elsewhere staying dry, cor yarks china, high pressure dominating here. that's doing to move farther east. that will shut off sea effect snow machine on wednesday. high extending further south still sparking up rain showers here into the philippines over towards the malaysian peninsula as well. one thing will be happening. you see energy, rainfall on the eastern seaboard on the philippines, still bring a risk of flooding. thursday and friday that's doing to carry north, could be impacting much of japan later in the week. sunshine skies, partly cloudy skies in tokyo. high of 3 in beijing, shanghai getting to the double digits on wednesday. see what's going on in the americas where earlier this week and into the week we were talking about severe weather across much of the u.s. tornadoes, freezing rain, heavy snowfall, just a mixed bag of precipitation. now that storm system pushing east. behind it arctic air setting in. truly the word. high pressur

i'll show you video coming out of hokkaido. you can see that here. this almost looks like a tropical system, but no, this is the sea of japan. strong northwesterly winds coming on shore. one location saw winds up to 114 kilometers per hour. needless to say, that's making for hazardous driving conditions out here. once again, wind chill absolutely bitter and this is something people in this part of japan deal with. it's not too unusual, but it's not anything that you want to be venturing out and about in when the storm is full ongoing. now, going into the weekend, it is going to be tapering off. there's the good news with that as far as the significant snowfall, but there's still going to be light snow here along the sea of japan coastline. much zrieer for you, expecting a warmup. then rain showers in your forecast, you could be seeing isolated strong storms. what i do want to talk about is along the pacific coast of japan. a lot of people out and about here. it's holiday season coming up from new years. going into the weekend extending into tuesday a

we have a weak low, that's been tapering off and we are seeing showers in northern portions of hokkaidobut nothing too significant. the problem with this high, still looking at poor air quality, parts of beijing, shanghai. earlier we had photos with dramatic reduced visibility. at least temperatures, though, like i said, will be warming up through the coming days. that's the look at the world weather, here's your extended forecast. >>> that's "newsline" for this hour. from all of us here at nhk world, thanks for joining us. >> another freezing night for protesters in ukraine. the angry crowd continued their fight to bring president yanukovych down. he is now in china for a planned three-day visit. unearthed in mali, the bodies of 21 soldiers found outside the capital just days after the arrest of the man who led a military coup last year. of france'snd one most popular soft drinks has died. he was the driving force behind angina. gina -- or

because the sea-effect snow machine really pushing that snowfall on the shore at some areas around hokkaido and the hoke queue region, you could see about 40 to 50 centimeters of accumulationless piling up in the next 24 hours around. further west we saw one report of about 30 centimeters coming down out there. it is really blowing. the good news, all this is staying on the west coast. if you are in tokyo and you don't enjoy the white stuff coming down out here, it does look like it's going to stay dry at least through the next several days. even dry farther towards the west. across korea you were looking at heavy snowfall yesterday. really much of china you're looking at high pressure as well. that's keeping things dry for the time being. there will be a change in the outlook, though, by the weekend into next week as the high does descend farther south. we've got a lot of moisture over the philippines bringing rain showers. those two air masses will start to interact and we'll get a low pressure area developing in hong kong, across taipei. rain showers in your forecast here until about sun

starting to crank back up here and some areas could see 10 to 20 meters of snow off western portions of hokkaido, hokuriku region but the pacific coastline not feeling the effects of it, typical with these storm systems. if you like to ski this is definitely something you're looking forward to. let's quickly talk about what's going on toward the south in the tropics, completely switching gears because we have heavy rainfall continuing to occur across malaysia. loot last seven days, upwards of 500 to 700 millimeters, northern portions of kuala lumpur and singapore. the new developing cyclonic storm is off the bay of bengal, the bad news it is developing and it could bring risk of flooding in india and toward miramar and bangladesh by next week. that's a look at your world weather. here is your extended forecast. >>> that's "newsline" for this hour. i'm gene otani in tokyo. >> remembering mandela. south africans gather to mourn the loss of a man who changed the nation and inspire generations. nelson mandela has died at the age of 95. thank for joining us on "france ." people around the world are g

out here i thought about going on in eastern asia where off course northeast of the snow fall on hokkaido northern portions of the whole crew. some areas to the top forty centimeters wide spread about fifteen to twenty so on. if you're a skier you're gonna like this but on the pacific coast on to stay dry cycles that can still out there on the western seaboard high pressure dominating back here towards the west and unfortunately that is going to be the case into the week and i say unfortunately we have from the report the air quality in this he's out here well above hazardous levels there are parts of shanghai without hiding place no wind stirring up the atmosphere it's going to remain that way not until next week or is he a low pressure area come through. nope we stir up the air. start to bring in some pressure from the west of affleck you will whether if its forecasts. i am noon and. i know. thx. this just in japan's lawmakers have approved a bill that gives the government authority to designate official information as special secrets the law gets tricked penalty for those who leak info

dominating, even shutting off that sea-effect show machine we've been talking about off towards hokkaidoand that is going to be really in place throughout much of the workweek. the only down side, it has that capping inversion effect. any pollutants coming out of the cities will be just trapped in the atmosphere. we're already looking at some unhealthy air nexus into portions of beijing. so something to talk about for the next several days. outside of that pretty decent weather in the forecast. farther towards the south, not so much the case. northeast monsoon bringing showers into northeastern portions of the philippines. but this area here, that low pressure, that's what i really want to talk about because that's embedded within that northeast monsoon. but it's been persistent, bringing pretty heavy showers across southern thailand, malaysia and also sumatrsumatra. earlier on this afternoon we actually had some damaging landslides. actually deadly landslides here in northern sumatra where about 200 millimeters of rainfall has been reported in some areas. nine deaths have been reported.

ceiling that has somebody least one hundred thirty five centimeters and only prefecture in northern hokkaido and in news that i needed to be fixed or asking me so what you get about fifty centimeters of snow with a counseling people unawares. that is combined with really gusty conditions their reason for that heavy snow nice that we have a high over the continent. strong northwesterly winds are flying over the cf camp and picking up a lot of moisture cars are funding and that something heavy snowfall and the west and signed the country. our brains of about one hundred km hour with an additional thirty to fifty centimeters of snow is likely that from the staff didn't think so because you're picking up and put the stuff excited to try as kathleen mentioned that a pastor to heavy rains knitting into southern japan we have an area of the rainy weather over south eastern china and the northern areas of the indochina finance law no one hundred millimeters of rain has been observed in several places two hundred millimeters and time honored to be spitting into southern japan in the next twenty four

approach the tokyo area so even some thunderstorms there on ahead of it that warm air surging in soto hokkaido. all you first enter the scene the possibility some rain but more so that wet snow but snow ball high up making of snow here that's been pushed off course and with the stone behind it. the school year is going to be surging in the most of that wet snow and especially the rain if you fight it out here towards south on the sea of japan costs like us to turn over to how orderly pottery types know some ears can see about twenty to forty centimeters so really is going to turn on that's the effect snow machine behind a high pressure will be dominating much of china korea of sunny skies in your forecast here for the next several days unfortunately. if you are in eastern china where the air quality is quite pour acts each a hike on hazardous level at this time while the windsor to stay calm and sunny there but it's not really to be stirred up towards the south tropics quite quiet at this time thirty two free time until afternoon thunderstorm still popping up here though going through your lov

he's so that's the effect snow machine continue in the period coffee with hokkaido hundred and forty km per hour wind gust was reported today. odd that it's on order to hide from me. he quit way streets just that silly of blowing out here heavy snowfall smile from ear to the forty to fifty centimeters recorded in you still can be seen that here at least going through saturday. the us eu japan heard in the pacific coastline should stay relatively dry those few eerie zaheer the higher locations because he bought thirty to forty centimeters of snow but the heaviest will be here across much of global code of the inquiry to sixty centimeters thing for capital into the weeds off the coastline six to seven meters high. i'm really just being enhanced by gusty winds hot conditions will be using a cross and by next week. due to the storm system coming out of the southern portions of china this and every white but pto hundred millimeters of rain fall within the eastern portions of the back of twenty centimeters of snow fall so wintery mix as co workers put up with these free and awesome and did

back in parts of the aegean sea regions and provinces its us politician high precipitation over hokkaido will be spreading to the sound into two nine and heavy rain is on the cards for you for this entry areas of the philippines. any yes the images in some pictures of the flooding in the somali just about six hundred fifty millimeters of rain has fallen in period at today's annual excite the brain is on i e creating the conditions are improving but a nice plan a month of rain is not welcome back at all. that crisis or a lie that we have only enough patience to stand still located east of the tree line at the new modern heavy rainfall. no one can get fifty millimeters to the hospital with undeserved but still an additional two hundred or even every confidence likely still plenty month size color and i'm going to be a very big concern across the island the cross at the american spirit we need your winter storms. one theory is located over the great lakes region bringing an additional thirty centimeters of snow across the great lakes region for the train is also possible and this was going

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