the two sides of the korean peninsula failed to agree on the revival of a joint tourism project in the north mt. kumgang resort. officials of the south reunification ministry and the tourism resort held talks with korean officials. the north's representatives refused to listen and demanded separate talks with officials of the tourism country. the south's delegation called off the talks without scheduling a next round. the project was suspended in 2008, after a south korean tourist was shot by a north korean soldier. the north unilaterally seized the south korean owned facilities at the resort but talks on reopening the resort were reopened after the north recently requested them. >>> the presidents of china and sudan have agreed to continue strengthening their countries' bilateral relationship even after southern sudan achieves independence next month. hu jintao met omar al bashir wednesday. the official chinese xinhua news agency said hu would keep his friendly policies toward sudan in place despite the change in the african nation's domestic affairs. hu pledged continued cooperation

once again, we're looking at this long rain band out of southwest china, extending towards the korean peninsula and pink is showing up and a lot of areas are going to pick up on that very heavy rainfall. we could be seeing amounts in the triple digits. for japan to northern areas are going to be seeing a lot of rainfall. 100 to 200 millimeters is possible. you want to watch for flooding of low lying areas as well as mudslides and it's going to be on the stormy side as well. another area continues to be the northern end of the indian subcontinent and towards the western areas. you are going to see much heavier rain over the course of today. as for highs, 31 in tokyo and staying steamy. 28 degrees in beijing, getting back down from 30s for a change. it heats up in shanghai. 34 degrees for you today. for europe, it's getting stormy tonight for central areas right along this cold front. widespread thunderstorm watches in effect and it's going to continue to be stormy tonight and for the alpine region, that rain is going to linger while the rest of the rain heads up into the scanned knave ven penins

that's set to move into the korean peninsula next looking much drier today, a little bit cloudy todayut as we head into your wednesday we'll see some intense showers developing again. elsewhere across the region widespread rain is going to be affecting southern china, over the next couple of days, watch out for some heavy rain to occur along the southern coast of guandong, heavy rain pushing across taiwan and northern luzon, hefty showers. indo china peninsula picking up moisture from the bay of bengal. 31 degrees in hong kong today, temperatures exceeding 30 degrees for many of you in china. 35 in chongqing. 32 in beijing and warming up in tokyo as well to 30 celsius. over to the americas looking very wet out in the east during the overnight hours. we have a very long frontal system that's stretching across the region and areas from missouri extending towards west virginia could pick up some severe thunderstorms, damaging winds, tornadoes not out of the question. a new system coming in from the pacific is going to be spreading some light showers from british columbia down into northe

to be a couple pockets of very heavy rainfall possible, starting to look a lot wetter for the korean peninsula as well and then for japan, too, showers will start off in the south this morning and then they start moving into northern sections and here, looking like they could start getting a little bit heavi into the evening hours as well as into thursday, and that will include quake-affected areas so you really want to be on the watch for that. and temperatures are going to be looking pretty hot across the board in japan, too. tokyo gets up to 32 degrees, so really getting over the 30s for the first time this year. 26 in seoul and 32 in beijing so pretty hot for you as well, and shanghai too getting into the 30s as well. now on the other side of the pacific we've got another tropical storm sim, beatriz. it was a hurricane yesterday but it has since weakened and it's rapidly weakening as it heads into much cooler waters here so in the next couple of days we're going to watch that become a tropical depression and then a remnant low and it's been away from the coastline, too, so that is good new

just going to be moving up from eastern china through in towards japan and southern tip of the korean peninsula. it really is going to be bringing some extremely heavy rain. especially towards western japan. if we just zoom in on that and look at the next 48 hour ace cumulation. you can see kushu is getting 300 millimeters of rain. up to 200 millimeters for southern parts offia pan. and this area is already had quite a lot of rain in the beginning of the week. so saturated land already. potential for flooding and mudslides and landslides. the winds are going to be pretty strong. potential for tornadoes here. so, that is the severe warning as we head into the weekend for southern japan. tokyo is going to be about 25 degrees on saturday. 29 in seoul and a warmer day also in beijing. 29 here. 32 in chongqing and low 30 s in honk con and down into bangkok. i want to move to north america. point down here in the clouds. very well formed hurricane in is adrian, of course, moving away from the southern mexico out over open waters so it doesn't look like it's going to be too much of a threat. it is sti

the system is finally on its way out but sweeping across the northern end of the korean peninsula as it goes. south korea could certainly turn cloudy this afternoon as well. central and southern portions of china are looking for significant rain to develop over the next couple of days as well. hunan looking at substantial rain for today and indo china we flins laas well, widespread rain and pockets of heavy as well and india as well the southwest coast looking at torrential rains over the next several days, southwest monsoon impacting the area. 32 degrees in hong kong, 28 in chongqing, another hot day in shanghai, 32 in beijing and warming up in tokyo to 25 degrees. now, we take a look at what's happening in north america, we've got a lot of warm air coming in from the gulf of mexico, reaching the northern plains and feeding energy into this low pressure system so looking very severe throughout the night for central canada especially northern manitoba, southern saskatchewan looking at the risk of tornadoes, also severe weather conditions across the northern plains as well, some hail

just behind this lingering showers across the korean peninsula and northeastern china as well. less intense but still remaining pretty widespread starting to impact places like seoul. now the rest of china looking settled. high pressure system firmly in control. weather is quite dry and hot out here. down toward the south we've got a tropical depression that is going to be impacting taiwan with heavy rain. some heavy showers also will be just brushing against the southeastern coast of china as well. now for indochina peninsula we'll be contending with widespread rain again all the way from cambodia through thailand looking especially heavy for places like myanmar and bang la boesladesh today. 31 degrees in hong kong today. 32 in beijing with sunny spells. tokyo is going to be slightly cool today. 18 degrees. now we head into north america. we have a very large low pressure system impacting central canada just now throughout the night experiencing very high winds across the region and quite a bit of rain as well falling across a wide area. the great lakes, too, will experience u

that's going to be moving into the northern end of the korean peninsula.or southeast asia, plenty of moisture in place again, especially across the philippines. the southern end could see some flooding problems occur here. also around the bay of bengal, heavy rain persists around bangladesh, northeastern india, into myanmar. and that rain stretches into central india, especially pradesh looking at severe thunderstorms. now for thunderstorms in chongqing, 32 degrees. 22 in shanghai. looking slightly cooler today, and summer like in seoul at 30 degrees. now we head into the americas. still looking at that very long rain band stretching from canada all the way into the mississippi valley here, particularly severe for the southern end. so places like missouri and tennessee will contend with some violent storms. watch out for hail as well as strong wind gusts, tornadoes not out of the question. and quite thundery up towards the northern plains as well. light rain expected to arrive in montana by wednesday afternoon, but at least we're getting a bit of a break f

very active frontal system stretching across the region here from eastern china through the korean peninsula into northern japan. here we could experience heavy rain over the next 24 hours especially up into western tohoku up to 200 millimeters is possible so increasing risk of flooding, landslides but thundery, quite wet across south korea and areas around shanghai as well. southern coast of china, tropical cyclone haima maintains strength, made its way across the laijo peninsula, expected to move across northeastern vietnam by tonight, downgraded into a tropical depression. so overall staying very stormy and wet for the next couple of days for hainan island, guangdong and vietnam upwards of 200 millimeters of rain over the next 48 hours, so flooding is definitely a concern here. across the philippines for luzon and western versailles experiencing strong southwest monsoon because of this tropical storm mary in the region, a large system. this is moving in a northerly direction, heading towards taiwan and bringing some very high waves, strong winds in the area as well. could be reaching the

same system continues to push through showers and slowly now it will be heading in towards the korean peninsulain southeast asia, showers and tropical downpours, thunderstorms still quite a bit heavier rain is possible across central and northern areas of the philippines over the next day or so. and then through the indochina peninsula and the bay of bengal as well scattered showers around. heavier isolated downpours will be possible in parts of myanmar and bangladesh and northwest india. these areas still continue to see rain and there is that chance of heavy to very heavy rainfalls to develop today. the highs will be getting up pretty high in hong kong, 32 is your high. even hotter in shanghai, 33 for you. then 23 degrees in tokyo. gray and on the cool side here. over towards the americas looking at all that activity here in and around the central americas. again today we've got a tropical depression just south of mexico in the eastern pacific. that will be the first one of the season and it is expected to strengthen further. it is going to likely become a tropical cyclone within the next 24

instead this frontal system is going to be shifting towards the west, so the korean peninsula it looks like you're going to be in for some hefty showers, see at the tail end of the system as well as the east coast of china looking at showery weather and the southern end of china, too, contending with widespread rain throughout the day, guanching and guandong good showers. for lieu zahn the philippines, good spells of sunshine throughout the day, but by the afternoon we'll start to see sporadic showers bubble up here, around the bay of bengal as well the southwest monsoon really kicking up here. it's starting to really advance in towards northern india, that's going to produce those heavy thundery downpours over a wide area. that rain extends up into northeastern india into northern myanmar as well. temperature wise it stays hot for much of central china, 35 degrees in chongqing today, and 31 in shanghai and tokyo coming in at 32 degrees as well. looking extremely hot for much of japan today. in fact, many areas exceeding 30 degrees. 35 in osaka and even sendai coming in at 32, ten degr

it's going to head northward and aim for the korean peninsula likely about monday here. but right now it's bringing very stormy conditions to its taiwan as well as the souern islands of japan. here we're expecting rainfall amounts of about to 300 millimeters in the next 24 hours. a lot of rainfall. very strong winds and high waves, too, that you want to watch out for as well. now, ahead of this storm system, we've got this frontal boundary that's been active, really activated by the storm system pushing out a lot of the air. it's looking wet through this area, and that's the same area where it's headed. it's going to be stormy here for the next couple of days. rainfall amount as well as strong winds here. really going to impact the area. you want to take care. take precautions if you're going to be there. saturday's hi highs across the board, 26 in tokyo. getting up to 36 in taipei. much, much hotter here. and 36 degrees. now, over toward the americas, we've got a couple of lows, one well developed one in the great lakes and then another one that's looking to drop out of

you start to dominate the korean peninsula and divide it the most unified society on the planet at that time culturally never fought in a war off its own soil and suddenly divided and. mutilated by huge armies marching against each other time and time again for years but mr clark it was much easier vietnam and vietnam of course it was much easier though in those days with that with the limited media to control the message by the white house by the congress by the by the forces in power now the people do have access to this information base see the consequence of the wars why do you think there isn't broader support behind messages like yours to end these conflicts why are folks like yourself marginalized and c.n.n. with all due respect sometimes that's french by by that means to an establishment. well i think the mainstream media is still they don't want to. be former and opinion setter. you know facebook and all these things are seen as kind of an entertainment or a game or irrelevant or but not not the serious word and not the official word so. he the domination of the media by the sa

force realignment and to the normalization on the korean peninsula. this committee needs a better understanding of this major undertaking. the cost of which are significant and growing. but ultimately what must guide the u.s. defense policy, vis-a-vis the republic of korea is the obligation to insure the mutual security and success. admiral mcraven, what you achieved in york career is all pretty extraordinary before may 2nd, 2011, but on that day by leading the mission that killed osama bin laden, you and your men won an enduring place in the american military history. so to say that i am confident in your ability to lead the u.s. special operations command is an understatement the admiral wilson has done an exceptional job and i'm confident you will build on this great work. if confirmed. the leader of al qaeda is dead but a new one is taken its place. your mission will be to help ensure that he meets the same end. at the same time, a series of deadly franchisees especially al qaeda and the arabian peninsula continues to threaten security of homeland

korean allies. i don't think there's a realistic way to bring peace to the peninsula. >> there was an agreement to help the north koreans have a peaceful nuclear program and the south koreans were a part of that. what happened to that initiative? >> it went so way of the passenger pigeon. [laughter] it is not there and as you know, you know, what of the nuclear issues and other issues as well but the north koreans ferry proudly showed off last fall they have built a light water reactor at p'yongyang for peaceful purposes. i would also like to point* out of the facility where they develop that material going into weapon highest plutonium bombs, have never had any wires and since its beginning they are not powering anything. a couple of questions? >> you talked about showing in a defensive initiatives they could defend against the ballistic missiles? >> the great question they did that before 2009 launch and one of my the officer in the army whom but it is advanced patriot missiles prophetic in his and advance which has said a shot gun blasted and that kills the bullet with the ball in. we sent over a bu

force realignment and to the normalization on the korean peninsula. this committee needs a better understanding of this major undertaking. the cost of which are significant and growing. but ultimately what must guide the u.s. defense policy, vis-a-vis the republic of korea is the obligation to insure the mutual security and success. admiral mcraven, what you achieved in york career is all pretty extraordinary before may 2nd, 2011, but on that day by leading the mission that killed osama bin laden, you and your men won an enduring place in the american military history. so to say that i am confident in your ability to lead the u.s. special operations command is an understatement the admiral wilson has done an exceptional job and i'm confident you will build on this great work. if confirmed. the leader of al qaeda is dead but a new one is taken its place. your mission will be to help ensure that he meets the same end. at the same time, a series of deadly franchisees especially al qaeda and the arabian peninsula continues to threaten security of homeland

run them in practice and the result is an evolving threat that keeps the status quo on the korean on the peninsula a mini cold war and it's expensive to maintain. you're talking about one of the key reasons why theories problems for the north korean populace writ large because of the huge expense of the military. north korea has nuclear weapons but little attempts at threats to the region and that's what i want to talk about tonight. somewhat. i'll talk about other stuff as well and that is the subject of an entire chapter in my book and when i talk of north korea's threat, of this allows the nkpa to threaten rok and u.s. forces with affordibility in ways that are highly difficult to defend. so let me talk about the long-range artillery first. north korea has up to 900 long-range systems and those systems we would be 170 millimeter guns which have range of about 40,000 meters and 240 millimeter multiple rocket launchers which has a range of 60,000 meters. yes, these systems can hit seoul from beyond the dpz where they're sitting and to exacerbate that threat, 5 to 20% of these systems are assessed

destabilize the korean peninsula and imperil u.s. armed forces, allies, and partners in the region continue to constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security foreign policy and economy of the united states. for these reasons i have determined that it is necessary to continue the national emergency with respect to these threats and maintain in force the measures taken to deal with that national emergency. signed, barack obama, the white house, june 23, 2011. the speaker pro tempore: referred to the committee on foreign affairs and ordered printed. the chair lays before the house a message. the clerk: to the congress of the united states, section 202-d of the national emergency act provides for the automatic termination of a national emergency unless prior to the anniversary date of its declaration the president publishes in the federal register and transmits to the congress a notice stating that the emergency is to continue in effect beyond the anniversary date. in accordance with this provision, i have sent t

it's the only -- the korean peninsula is the only place where the direct interest of the united statesorea is the bull's eye in the middle of that, and for all the questions that i have had about the engagements in this other part of the world, i think you and i both know how strongly i believe that this is a critical moment in east asia in terms of the potential volatility of our relations there, and in that regard, i want to say again i appreciate the comment you made last july relating to the sovereignty issues in the south china sea, and as you know, this is a very live issue today. i also would like to just point out, i keep hearing the analogy, and i take it to the point to a certain extent with the situation in 1989 where we could have done more in afghanistan and in that region, and we didn't, but we also should be mineful that the geopolitical circumstances today are quite different than they were in 1989 and the fact we could have done more in 1989 does not in and of itself justify the methods that are being used today. i have to express my agreement with senator lugar's comm

southern korean soldiers have been using pictures of north korean leaders for target practice and such provocation could lead to war on the peninsula last year accuse its southern neighbor provoking an artillery attack by violating its maritime border during military drills. russia is plagued by one of the highest rates of teen suicide in the world with as many as four falls and attempting to kill themselves every year experts say it's the parents that are often at fault for not seeing the problems staring them right in the face but as artie's accountable to reports there are many other forces at work just days before final exams a t.v. crew was reporting and students gearing up for the adult lives that lee had of them the teachers pointed to bullying at their brightest student who it seemed had her future figured out where she at least i want to become a journalist because it's a very interesting and creative profession which would open doors to the world for me yet but instead of a school living celebration pulling his classmates gathered for here funeral sensing she may not be the best she ended everything and hank herself with

korean leaders to target. the north warned that such provocation could lead to war on the peninsula last year pyongyang accused neighbor of provoking an artillery attack by violating its maritime border during a military coup. right now let's check out what's coming up in our business bulletin here on our. it seems like there are some big names looking to float in moscow in london what do you. well you know about this well yes that's true rory foresaw grow have come for plans for initial public offerings in london and moscow and the company received a go ahead from the federal service for financial markets to offer up to twenty one percent of the total checkout at all says it needs the money for mergers and and acquisitions and it's not the first company to turn to i.p.o. for help recently surgeons in uganda successfully generated one point three million dollars and. join me for more on this and other stories in our four business bulletin in about ten minutes from now ok super corrina thanks very much to. the toppling of president mubarak in egypt is now turning up the heat on cairo's gas supply deal with isra

korean soldiers had been using pictures of north korean leaders for target practice the north warned of such provocation could lead to war on the peninsula last year pyongyang accused southern neighbor of provoking an artillery attack by violating its maritime border during military drills. the international monetary fund has shortlisted two candidates to lead the board french finance minister christine lagarde and mexican central bank costin's will fight it out for the. most have strong credentials but lagarde is seen as the favorite and she is gaining major support that comes after the resignation of dominique strauss can who quit amid a sex scandal the hotly contested race to succeed him will end later this month. but i was cross over to our business that's going to say hello to kareena to find out what's going on for the business update is our new entry for a public office in russia and the u.k. that's right confirmed plans for initial public offerings in london and moscow the company received a go ahead from the federal service for financial markets to offer up to twenty one percent of the total share capital for sagal says it needs