and then also too we have the other stage called kona brewery company that's sponsoring this year for the musicians and the entertainers. and so, we have now art--also, we have artisans who are out there participating every year, displaying their art and their items and everything. so, we have one--added one other item, it's called art and soul. and art and soul is basically for folks that come down and look at different artists that come down creating different things such as origami. we have linda mihara, who does the origami with her sister, vicky. unfortunately, vicky passed away this year, so we're going to dedicate art and soul this year to her. and then also, in addition to that, we have leland wong, who is our original poster maker for the past--for the first 20 years of nihonmachi. so, we're expanding that. and so, we're starting to get more corporate involved to do information booths as opposed to just nonprofit because of the cost of the fair and everything. so, we're expanding a lot, quite a bit. we'll also have a food booth. and food booths are happening with--along with

central parts of canada to tary i could back seeing some wet weather down towards the southeast in kona back into florida yet the wet weather still in place here some of the showers also affecting also the caribbean but for the most part it's looking fine and dry some lovely sunshine coming through we want to see more especially across the western side of the rate and down towards nicaragua costa rica or maybe it's a panama you could see some of us as we go on into the weekend across the main island so it's fine and dry kingston with a top temperature of 32 degrees. this is al-jazeera. alone has i'm sick of this is the news on live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes more than 100 migrants are feared dead and dozens of others rescued after 2 boats capsized off the libyan coast. north korea says its latest missile test is a warning to the south but the u.s. says a new round of diplomacy is imminent. to news you get a new interim leader after the death of the country's 1st democratically elected president g.k. there said see. a break that reality check for the new british prime min

onstill to comonight's program, china condemns the vig ent protests in hong konas a challenge to its rule. so what do the demonstrators do next? india's financial capital, mumbai, has been paralyzed by flooding as it faces the worst monsoon in a decade. lst 21 people were killedll when a wall sed and it has been massive disruption to vail, wrote, and aircraft for. air transport. reporter: monsoon sean has already caused chaos and destruction. a wall in a suburban slumco apsed after torrential rain overnight. more than a dozen people were killed and many more injured. >> on the nearby drainage cannon overflow, the water pressure led to the collapse of the law. i'm coming from the hospital. over a dozen people have died, including women and children. reporter: rescue teams worked through the night to save those in need. services on mumbai's crucial transportation links as well as flights of the international airport have been disrupd. every year, mumbai suffers from flooding,ra largely becauses and gutters become blocked with garbage. >> please, somebody check that the gutters have bee

skies for the most part but that cloud just a rolling through the bite down towards the southeast and kona still quite warm in sydney all through.

the rest kona group provides micro credits so that women can buy well. the co-op also sells the finished products at fair prices to shops throughout argentina. was. the cooperatives work provides an income for 1000 local families. since they have some money coming and they don't have to move away from their villages to look for work. or women specialize in living and weaving in huge traditional patterns. but maria has also taught these skills to her sons. she wants to change some of the old gender roles i knew i could do to korea in korea culture the women do all the work around the house and in the fields. the men often work somewhere else you know i don't know over the years and i've learned that it's important to be true to yourself and not to worry about what others think when in say local women spend all their time helping others they don't do enough for themselves i don't want that i want to enjoy what i call it women have a lot of work to do that i don't always have a say in what they have to do but market. asking which of course it or not we are

coom his regime that's what's actually made me always made us very unhappy and when when so russian kona sitting in the chair of the parliament german parliament of georgia it made people simply mad you know because then everyone realized that this government has failed with every think and now they allow some russian conus to take seat of the chair of the gordon probably parliament where the independence was actually in. mr mr. let me ask you specifically about that because we are fresh of the g 20 summit in japan where the canadian prime minister casually chewed the seat of the russian president but it would be easy on take to suggest that justin is somehow imposing himself on russia i'm not a psychologist but it seems that there's a there's something bigger i'm denethor all of the oh yes because you know or japan and canada. they have peaceful relations and in georgia as you know as you might know in no way believe that to. say things that our territories. the hotel returns have been annexed to a local pride by russia that's how it is they know and it's a young generation who came to

not as the world's leading cocoa produce a bit now another crop as a merging as a big money maker kona nuts reached record highs last year when interest reports from. pruning quality are used to get more not over the last 3 years farmers here have been improving the way they work and the yield from this 7 hectic farm has doubled. 4 years ago zombie still there was a cocoa farmer. unlike many others he says turning to colonise has been easy. having been a cook from before i had a little experience that is. for me or for a new adventure it's not been much at the moment but i think it's worth a try. west african trade is especially from come here to ivory coast to buy some of the goods find their way to the middle east in 2013 ivory coast produce more colors that we did 3 years before about half that of nigeria the world's number one producer but farmers here say they can be given over a leader if they were given the same support and find i felt as a country school performance. there is little in the way of government support for the farmers but help is coming from elsewhere with research

remain hiding say still some pockets of heavy rain 209 millimeters of rain here just to the south of kona shoe in the space of 24 hours that's pulling out into the open water as you can see how wide the skies tried to push in behind here's a seasonal front the my you buy a front that will just not a little further research as we go through sunday there's that west of weather there in tokyo no higher than around 21 celsius some warmth still in behind around 30 degrees there across the korean peninsula not just of beijing remember last week getting up to 40 degrees celsius higher than about 26 on sunday afternoon perhaps the top form of the basing on monday a little more cloud coming in a bit of cloud 2 just to run the korean peninsula pushing into japan but certainly much quieter much better weather the missing recently some relief from the flooding rains i'm pleased to say heavy showers do continue to follow that same line of right across central and southern parts of china over the next couple days some wetter weather coming in here sinking a little further southwards as we get into mond

shading on acha southern parts of china all the way through hong kong murat ups was that southeast of kona seeing some really heavy rain through wednesday and lastly continuing as we go on through a good part as well that's where the other states this tropical development that's going to push its way up towards more than postle vietnam a fast southwest off china sea some flooding rains to ensue in there her recently particularly around the western u.s. mumbai has seen widespread flooding deadly floods in fact quite a rash of storms the monsoon rains setting in across many parts now coast to the sea the latest pulse of haiti way will push in across central plains new delhi on the other hand stays hot and dry temperatures getting up to 40 maybe 41 degrees for the midwest to get still seeing some heavy showers every show is to into myanmar the final feast of india and into much obama today not too many showers across the right in place hot dry and sunny sums it up here in doha the 42 degrees. let me take you. like no please son. west rain. until the storm gets to fall stay stuck on most skill

central parts of canada to terri i could back seeing some wet weather down toward the southeast in kona back into florida yet the wet weather still in. place here some of the showers also affecting also the caribbean but for the most part it's looking fine and dry some lovely sunshine coming from we want to especially across the western side of the rate and doubt towards nicaragua costa rica or maybe it's a panama you could see some of us as we go on into the weekend across the main island so it's fine and dry kingston with a top temperature of 32 degrees. the plundering of armenia's natural riches has uprooted residents and desecrated the habitat of some of europe's most in vain your species. but a remarkable campaign by local residents is challenging the miked of the country's investors and pinning high hopes on its newly elected prime minister people in power investigates armenia mining out the left. on a 0 up. it's good to have you with us on al-jazeera and these are our top stories libya's navy says at least 150 people are missing and feared dead after 2. capsized off the coast of

i thought we'd start with the transact in the our kona basin and then we'll work our way over.to the research ship will travel along the set g.p.s. coordinates for several nights. the captured zooplankton gathers in a catch back at the end of the net. and. the main thing we're interested in is how many jellyfish we have in the samples and how many fish eggs and larvae fish loving. the data has set course on the next spacek. meanwhile goober tends to his catch. a school of sticklebacks is beating on the zooplankton that he has yet to count. they have to be removed 1st. from. under the microscope the different species of zooplankton can be identified. tiny copartners along with fish eggs a market prey for jellyfish. at every station a measuring probe is lowered into the water. this determines the oxygen and salt content along with the temperature. vertical profile of the environmental data appears on who their screen of the graphs indicates salty oxygen rich layers. it seems water from the north sea has found its way to the eastern baltic through deep channels that suggests that

nevertheless just pushing up towards honshu it will make its way across southern and eastern parts of kona shit that's because through the next couple of days 31 celsius in tokyo another hot and humid day to come here on saturday tend to increase and humid as we go on through the weekend as that wet weather starts to drive its way in much of honshu saying some pretty big downpours not too concerned about the winds but the right could cause some localized flooding libya if you shop shows to across the korean peninsula come across into northern parts of china lossy dry wanted to erode showers here the showers a little more widespread across southern parts of china down towards as eastern coast is particularly southeastern corner hong kong at about 33 celsius well so weather coming back again as we go on into sunday stretched across the south china seas will see some showers along the spells of rain to also affecting a good part of the philippines particularly into northern and central parts of the philippines but about across a good parts of central and southern areas of vietnam down across

western parts of here belong not long gone but gone is that heat that we've had across the northwest in kona through the british isles into the low countries germany france to get through the next couple days requires the chinese 25 is the top temperature in london a good 5 to 15 degrees down on the recent valleys and 28 in paris and just for the way further to go on through the next couple.

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comes to weather stay a little nudge a little further north was brought to scars into the southeast in kona hong kong and around 32 degrees celsius in the temperature there into the philippines malodorous 31 hated the day showers a rumbling up from time to time quite a scattering of showers as usual across malaysia indonesia does look. also blue skies here so you have been a fair weather cloud but essentially does look dry and we go with the showers into malaysia pushing up to the philippines southern parts of india china and those showers stretch away across. into my peninsula all the human side there for thailand 34 celsius in bangkok but aside from the your afternoon showers should be a losey drysdale drying to the far northwest of in the heavy showers continue down the west and get some big downpours too into parts of bangladesh and the funnel of the east of india. the weather sponsored by qatar and this. information in the case that you have or associated to it does the least a part of it has the potential to be biased in a number of different ways there are too many opportunities for

western parts of here belong not long gone but gone is that heat that we've had across the northwest in kona through the british isles into the low countries germany france to get through the next couple days requires a chinese 25 celsius the top temperature in london a good 5 to 15 degrees down on the race in valleys and 28 in paris and just for the way further to go on through the next couple days here's the foundry breakdown big fundraiser still in place on friday through that basis out of england the cross east anglian to the southeast western parts of france to pushing all the way down into the alpine regions and some pretty wet weather too just around the baltic states easing over towards that western side of russia dry here as we go through saturday well quite a dry over towards the west of us 23 celsius in london 21 in paris so something like 2122 degrees dropping temperatures on recent days wet weather across a good part of france actually though the parts despite also seeing some disturbed weather some really live shot of the showers there just along the riviera on the other side o

and south kona.you more t most know the capacity of vehicle's military and how south korea's military works. do you believe the arm sales and joint exercises should be going on? >> these exercises are impoant r professional militaries to maintain their edge and, even in the environment of creating room for dlomacy and postponing some exercises more than a year ago, there's still room for maintaining readiness and that's been ongoing. so we see the second oftwo exercises that have begun in thl year 2019 alliance, that's the name of the exerciser oming in the korean language, and the second one that's coming up, it's impoant in this particular case because it is a bit of a certification exercise for the south koreans as they prepare to take over thr leadontrolling forces in wartime should that eventuality actually occur. so yes the exercises need to let me also just mention, if i may, north korea hasn't changed theil,exercise program at a and not a bit in five years. we saw a few things that were modif