now for some of you, you may be headed over to the northern island of hokkaido because of the golden week, and this is one of the last places to see the cherry blossoms in japan. those hills and mountains there, where the blossoms typically do not start until the month of may, which is over a month after it begins in tokyo, and two months after they start in okinawa. now, the full bloom of the cherry trees arrived 11 days earlier compared to this time last year following the warmest temperatures across japan thus far in 2014. even hokkaido has been seeing above average temperatures all this week resulting in the spring scene for residents on japan's northern island. with that, hope you have a good day wherever you are. here's a look at your extended forecast. >>> and once again, here is our top story. more than 170 people have been injured in a subway crash in the south korean capital of seoul. the accident happened at around 3:30 p.m. on friday, on the number 2 line. it's the second oldest route in seoul, and one of the most crowded. one train rammed into the rear of another that wa

you may want to consider doing them on saturday and sunday mass of you may be headed north over to hokkaido for the hills and mountains to see one of the last places for the cherry blossoms in japan of losses but they don't start into the month of may which is a month after the blues begin token two months after the start of the envelop and papa got to conclude with a cherry tree to ride eleven days earlier compared to this time last year following the warmest camps across japan thus far in twenty fourteen in hokkaido has been saying above average temperatures all this week results springs resident and his north island he had a good day where you are yours or seven forecasts the ruling i do. and here the rest. it is it is. these lines the seller and you know tommy into golf ball this year. nhk world. thanks for joining us until next time six. can any skate world's tv of the selection of programs being broadcast over the next day here we go with our first day. here is the content of your connected countries and borders there are still changing sometimes under dramatic circumstances in this t

also gusty winds up towards hokkaido, saw one wind gust report about 104 kilometers per hour. good news is that by tuesday, this is really going to be rapidly clearing out. monday, keep a umbrella ready, even into tuesday morning if you're in eastern portions of japan. but this is going to start to move on there towards the east into the northern pacific. still some scattered storms, possible here in tokyo on your tuesday afternoon. but i think by wednesday, it's really going to be improving out here. same thing goes back towards the west if you're in the korean peninsula. by tuesday, high pressure really is setting in. the downside, though, is we are seeing some westerly winds out here. so you have that yellow sand in northeastern china and extending over towards korea, as well. if you suffer from pm2.5, the itchy eyes that may come with that, be ready for those scenarios to be setting up there for you. in southeastern china the rainy season is doing exactly what it is called, bringing some widespread rainfall. actually gung jaw province you saw some heavy rainfall, guangdong

hokkaido, you could see rain showers, thunderstorms from the cutoff low continuing to dominate.owards the west actually dust blowing up there into northwestern china. some cooler temperatures behind this front that's going to be pushing through. beijing near 21. cloudy skies in your forecast. down toward the south tropical afternoon thunderstorms popping up in manila. 35 there on your friday. that's a look at your world weather. here's the extended outlook. >>> and that's all for this hour on "newsline." i'm shery ahn. thank you for watching. a7guc >> you are watching "france vingt-quatre," thank you for watching. russian separatists in the ukraine say that voting will continue this weekend as planned despite calls from russian president vladimir putin to change this. we are standing by in donetsk with more. more trouble for the dismissed by mr. of thailand, she is charged with their religion of duty one day after being suspended from duty. 19 barclays will cut

meanwhile we did have the rain moving through japan now moving into hokkaido. you're going to drop from the 20s from thursday into the teens on friday. big cooldown for you. meanwhile the northern portions of china seeing some drier conditions and some warm conditions as we go through the weekend. here's a look at your three-day forecast. notice we are seeing the nice springlike temperatures as we look at tokyo, seoul and also into beijing. definitely if you have any outdoor plans this weekend looks like it will cooperate. hope you have a good day wherever you are. here's a look at your extended forecast. >>> and that's all for me today. gene otani will be here at the top of the hour with more updates. thank you for watching. a7gucéÑ >> police in turkey fired tear gas and water cannons at thousands of protesters angry over that deadly mine explosion. the death toll is now at 282 and time is running out for dozens of miners still underground. say at least 20 people are killed in vietnam as a mob of angry protesters storm a steel mill in the south. that's the fir

and also into hokkaido, saw a high of around 33, 34 degrees yesterday. and that was actually warmer than the high down in okinawa. so yes we're seeing the high pressure really bringing in the warm air and driving it over the korean peninsula, into japan. and it looks like we're going to be dealing with even more warm weather as we head into the weekend. now, you notice the rain continues to fall in southern china. but it is going to slowly move toward the north and so i think beijing, you're actually going to get a little bit of relief when it comes to the temperatures. take a look at the forecast here. 34 for saturday. that's above average. but then by sunday and into monday, highs should be dropping off into the upper 20s. hopefully the rain will be helping you out. but in india, japan, and also thailand, still seeing highs way above average for this time of year. so it's going to be a scorcher. please make sure you take the proper precautions as you go throughout the weekend. let's take a look at the forecast in the americas. and we are talking about

though is that some on mon that population or very ideological and are sympathetic to the ideology of hokkaido where the islamic state of iraq an al sham. i'm still even if an individual necessarily goes to see in the first place maybe four more altruistic reasons. once they get there they might then be indoctrinated to an end to more radical ideology and that's when the main reasons why many within france and europe are very much worry about what happens when these individuals come back home. see you sing the national integration is often this sectarian all one can fashion a light dinner of helping a fairly soon these yes one of the main motivations is related to helping out the fellow sunnis because of the one they believed that his son regime is you know massacre in them and therefore because the wax their arab states are not really into feeding themselves they feel it necessary to go on over there and friday as the regime and led to the motivation is to simply wanted to do something with the lights and being in some way disaffected with that situation and in that country's well i deftly th

more it is just south of hokkaido from the united states and that's what's really going on i mean certainly these issues you won't hear in the mainstream media are very worrying as you say regarding the whole shipment ideas how concerned you think we should be these tensions could turn into something more serious in the region particularly when you talk about such such a prevalence of weapons. yeah as i said we already had people killed in vietnam a variety for these issues and they need to be talking and having dialogue about these islands but every side is full of ego and ignoring it and bringing up things from world war two even to fight about and argue about and not listening in. in his party and unity party under it have been talking about amending the constitution of japan article nine years already is being ignored greatly because japan's defense force is definitely a military the sixth largest military expenditure in the world they have a huge navy huge air force but they have been prevented from selling our immense and joining in conflicts such as in afghanistan or iraq or the us t