kazuaki hirayama, nhk world. >> thank you. >>> sayaka mori joins us once again with an update on the storm system as well as world weather. >> yes. as we've been reporting, a tropical storm made loefl in the toba region this morning. there is a significant storm system over the water. this is a typhoon named kilo. kilo has been over the waters over the past three weeks. typically a life span of a tropical storm is only nine days. so it's a very long-lived system. meanwhile, dry weather for eastern china in the korean peninsula but spotty heavy showers for parts of the indochina peninsula as well as the philippines. the worst conditions could happen over the north of the philippines. temperatures will be in the 30s in manila and also in shanghai. 26 degrees in tokyo with rainy weather on thursday. now, in the middle east, dust storms are covering many parts of the western areas and it's causing numerous problems. we have some video coming out of several countries there. a heavy sandstorm swept across parts of the middle east on tuesday. at least two people were killed and hundreds wer