craig dale, nhk world, kyoto. >>> it's time now to take a look at the weather. the people in parts of the united states are dealing with heavy rain and flooding. our meteorologist robert speta has the details. robert? >> yes. we have been talking about really all this week across the central u.s. through the mid wis tern states is that heavy rainfall. the severe thunderstorms which have produced several damages tornadoes. large hail out here earlier. report upwards of baseball size. most recently it is this heavy rain which has been persistent in parts of minnesota. and we actually have some video coming out of jordan, minnesota. right here starting off, that is a landslide that submerged the road here. a state of emergency actually issued after the rain caused massive flooding here in a third of the state. storms dumped upwards of 150 millimeters of rain. and a total 300 millimeters of rain this past week. the downpours have washed out roads, flooded homes and stranded drivers. lake min tonica reached an all-time high level here yesterday. and that is -- that w

kyoto reaching up to 32. i'll leave you now for your extended forecast around the globe. and that's all for this edition of "newsline." i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. thanks for joining us. tonight a conversation about affirmative action. affirmative action has pitted one group against another, specifically asians against african-americans. we will get into that with an a for lee, who has written exclusively -- with jennifer lee, who has written exclusively about race and the quality. john lloyd young will close with the performance of the four season megahit "can't take my eyes off you

in the 30s in kyoto as well. and tokyo just at 26 for thursday. now to europe, we have reports of tornados spawning in serbia, 6 centimeters diameter hailstorm in nia. this system is spawning severe weather. it will be affecting ukraine and poland and thunderstorms continue in the balkans. flooding, large hail and damaging gusts will be a potential. we are likely to see another atlantic system in the british isles. meanwhile here across london on thursday we're likely to see partly sunny skies with 19 degrees in the forecast. but from friday, a chance of thunderstorms there. and looking at those heavy rain pulling in for the weekend. you may have to arrange your weekend plans in munich and in paris. the rest of the temperatures are looking like this. in europe, take a look at this. in athens, 38 degrees. and we have a high pressure system cresting overhead. surging all that heat. the heat wave could continue. now across the americas the midsection of the u.s. and eastern seaboards are looking at drenching thunderstorms. we may see 50 millimeters o

look at those temperatures into the low 30s for kyoto. some areas into the 40s. so make sure that you are taking precautions if you're going to be spending time outdoors under the very warm weather conditions. over into europe now, we have this low pressure system east of the scandinavian peninsula, and extended cold front dragging across down toward the southern portions of the continent that was responsible for creating some severe weather earlier this week. still unsettled, so expecting some rain and thunderstorms as we go throughout our friday and into saturday. high pressure, though, building in from the west, bringing some very warm conditions. 25 in paris, 24 in london. into the mid 30s in lisbon. so much warmer conditions for friday. wet weather from stockholm into kiev. we're now looking at the americas. cristina still a hurricane moving away from mexico. a couple low pressure systems for canada and also into the united states bringing very unsettled weather. so rain and thunderstorms possible. i am concerned about this low pressure system in the rockies

in a separate kyoto poll also conducted june 21 and 20 seconds and a 55% oppose the defense bush. in with a wave of popularity and so much was expected of him. and still so much expected, i suppose. one of the things perhaps not mentioned is that what he is trying to do is get people's wages up. that hasn't really worked out. >> it certainly hasn't. and the economy is one of the low points in his poll. more than half do not have confidence in his economic -- >> it was abenomics. >> the other tarot, so to speak, which we are still waiting on arrow, so tothird speak, which we are still waiting on those reforms. of course, one of the first things that happened when he downin was to send the yen something like 16%. but it started to haul that stuff all ahead of that -- but it started to fall ahead of that. is an expensive place to visit. perhaps the real estate market is not as expensive as it used to be. by ford taurus, it is an expensive place to stay in a hotel. forort tourists -- but tourists, it is an expensive place to stay in a hotel. we know the japanese are huge travelers. gi

kyoto reported that seven were killed over the weekend. a truck crashed near a -- near bangkok. the glittery took over the government after months of unrest -- the military took over the government after months of unrest. reports of congestion, indeed -cambodian at the thai border. >> chaotic, congestion, dramatic on the border. rights workers say the tens of thousands of undocumented cambodian migrants were trying to flee over the weekend. points were described as being overwhelmed. there can be as many as 4 million migrant workers in the country. iny work in legally industries like agriculture, fishing, holding jobs not wanted by the thais themselves. >> thank you. the latest out of thailand. >> when it comes to thailand, the united states has warned it may take an says that unspecified action -- unspecified action after allegations of modern-day slavery. international agencies are investigating what are claimed to be severe violations of human rights. he wields his bag through jakarta national airport. he considers himself lucky not only to have his freedom but lucky to be al

. >> reporter: now according to the kyoto news agency out of japan, they've been able to add a few moredetails to the story other than the north koreans and the state department have done so far. he was part of a tourist group. he was detained in mid-may after apparently leaving a bible in a hotel room where he was staying. now, this is a problem in north korea because they have state run religion. they do not allow independent religions, and they do not allow christianity, which is a hint at to why he's being detained. >> you mentioned three americans being detained. the other two was christianity some how a result of their or did it lead to them dealing detained. >> reporter: yes, in the case of one, yes, kenneth bae. he's described as a korean-american missionary who went into the country under a fou tourist visa, and he has spent 15 years in hard labor camp. they said it had to do with destabilizing the government and trying to overthrow the leader there. kim jong-un. and matthew miller todd, he was acting erratically when he was trying to enter the country. that was back on april 1

however, the kyoto news agency from japan has said a lot more.jeffrey fowle was detained as a bigger tour group. he was detained after apparently leaving a bible in a holt room where he was staying. he was detained on his way out of the country. this is a problem. in north korea they have state run religions. it's okay to be part of a state-run religion but not okay not to b, especially christianity. >> that has been applied to others who have been detained. >> reporter: kenneth bae appears to have gotten in trouble because he was given 15 years in hard labor somewhere in north korea. the authorities accusing him of aiming to bring down the government and the supreme leader kim jong-un. the other american being held is miller matthew todd. we're not sure if it's miller matthew or matthew miller, no one knows. he was apparently creating havoc going through the immigration service there. the north koreans picked him up when he allegedly tore up his visa saying he wanted to seek asylum. as you know, dennis rodman has been there many times. and he's

we never signed the kyoto accord, the united states, yet we're the only industrialized nation across the world that ever achieved all of those objectives, and we spent $1.5 trillion get going to done. now we're talking about ca carbon. we used it global warming. then climate change because it's not so much warming and now climate whatever. this issue, even when the president's team announced it they were talking about children with asthma. well, children with asthma comes from pollution. we've done that, and we continue to work on it. global warming is something fundamentally different. it comes in under a new law, and it's not the potential, i won't talk about science. i'm telling you it has the potential to significantly reduce the vitality of the american economy and put a lot of people out of work, and what we're saying let's look at the ways we do this. let's look at the extent we do it. let's look at the timing, and we're going to have a chance. because that whole proposal gets a 90-day comment period before the epa, and has an opportunity while the white house is saying that c

as udied this in the 1990's and i was deputy secretary prepare for the kyoto conference. unfortunately, the treaty that came back from that conference was never adopted in the 1990's, so to this day, we have yet to address this issue. and we must. this is an issue that will cause flooding across this nation. it will cause sea level rise, which we're already seeing. and it will lead to more severe storms, which we are already seeing. how can we do that? again, back to the transportation bill. back to the water resources bill. put together the levees that we need to protect ourselves. and put together the transportation systems that allow for increased public transportation. , ether it's on a locomotive built by that german company in america, in sacramento, the most modern locomotive in the united states. made in america. 100%. or maybe it's a street car. or a fast rail system. or a bus. again, financed by americans, built by americans, with a buy america proposal. our taxpayer money used to employ americans as we build high speed trains, as we build new locomotives or bus

now, we have done our own study for a long period of time going all the way back to right after kyoto never submitted for ratification and found that the cost of that, and this comes from wharton school, m.i.t., comes from charles rivers associate is between $300 billion and $400 billion a year. that would be the largest tax increase in history. we know the chamber's come out with the amount of money it's going to cost in jobs and all of that. now for decades the environmental left has pushed to enact, and again congress has rejected. now we've tried, we've had this before congress now, about 12 times, it has been rejected every single time. and each time by a larger margin. the first one was 2003. that was the mccain lieberman bill and then two years later it was rejected even by a larger -- a larger amount. so, it used to be the number one and now it's the number 14 concern, and it's a very large concern. so regardless the president is pushing this regulatory thing. we don't have to look any further than obama's model to come up with a conclusion. he talks about his green dream bein

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if you go back to the kyoto protocol it called for 5.2 reduction in co2 emissions. but by the end of that protocol the globe globe had increased by 10%. it just ignored what was being documented. so while we want to experiment and this administration wants to experiment by reducing 30% the international energy agency is already predicting that by 2030 arrests of the world is going to be producing 40% more co2 around the world while we are experimenting with reductions the rest of the world has not followed and they be going to 40%. china and india alone with this chart you can see this is what they are going to be doing over this time. math. china will be using 550,000 more gigawatts of coal power. by 2030 china is going to increase their co2 output by 60% while we are decreasing 30%. india is going to increase by 50% of their co2 output while we are decreasing hours 30%. this administration just seems to be ignoring that china, china burns more coal than the rest of the world combined and no one is following this lead. he seemed to be operating in a vacuum. just re

even if the person was able to reach an agreement like the kyoto treaty of the 1990s it was still have to be ratified by the senate. that treaty overwhelmingly failed. the president can deliver in paris and subsequently in a pet -- senate we will be left with his domestic climate action plan. america has been told by the epa and the u.n. that climate change will cause serious impacts of the planet years into the future. the president's domestic climate action plan that they champion cannot on its own prevents these impacts from happening. according to her own u.s. secretary of state john kerry in a column he wrote in the financial times june 30 stated even as we strive to do better we recognize that no country can solve this problem alone. even if the u.s. somehow eliminated all of our domestic greenhouse gas emissions secretary kerry says it would not be enough. the rest of the world is doing too much carbon pollution. that means the president's climate action plan on its own doesn't reduce global temperatures or prevent any of the serious impacts predicted by the u.n. or the epa. can

north korean government says he acted, quote, contrary to the purpose of tourism, but according to kyotoeen staying. analysts say north korea pounces on even a hint of independent religious activity. >> they feel threatened by any outside contagion. any risk to the stability of the regime and they see religious proslitizing as a risk. >> if you go there as an american, break the laws though they may not seem criminal to you because they're perfectly legal in the united states, that creates a huge problem. >> reporter: american kenneth bay, a missionary, was reported to have been engaged in activity when he was thrown into a north korean gulag. he's still there serving a 15-year sentence. the north koreans say they're holding a third american, miller matthew todd who they say sought asylum there. >> without blaming any americans who have been detained before, this should nonetheless be a warning to people to remember the kind of regime we're dealing with and the brutality and ruthlessness of the regime. >> reporter: it was just six months ago kim had his own uncle executed for allegedly t

we have done our own study for a long period of time going all the way back to right after kyoto was never submitted for ratification and found the cost of it, and this comes from wharton school, comes from mit, kols from charles rivers associate, is between $300 billion and $400 millibillion a. that would be the largest tax increase in history. we know the chamber has come out with the amount of money it will cost in jobs. for decades the environmental left has pushed to enact the cap and trade and congress has rejected it. we've had this before congress now about 12 times. it has been rejected every single time, and eve time by a larger margin. the if irs was 2003, the mccain lieberman bill. then two years later it was rejected even by a larger amount. so it used to be the number one and now it's the number 14 concern, and it's a very light concern. so regardless, the president is pushing this regulatory thing. we don't have to look any further than obama's model to come up with a conclusion. he talks about his green dream being germany. you and i were just there not long ago, i sa

if we go back to the kyoto protocol, it called for 5.2 reduction in co 2 emissions but by the end of that protocol, the globe it already had increased by 10%. it just ignored what was being documented. so while we want to experiment, while this administration wants to experiment by reducing 30% the international energy agency has -- is already predicting by 2030 the rest of the world is going to be producing 40% more co 2 around the world. while we're experimenting with reduction, the rest of the world is not following our lead, going to 40%. just consider china and india alone. with this chart, you can see that this is -- this is what they're going to be doing. over this time period. china is going to be introducing 557,000 more gigawatts of coal fired -- india 519,000. in that time period by 2030, china is going to increase their co 2 output by 60% while we're decreasing 30%. india is going to increase by 50% their co 2 at output, while we're decreasing our 30%. this administration just seems to be ignoring that china -- china burns more coal than the rest of the world combined. an

but explaining his opposition to the kyoto-style climate deals, senator byrd said this, "i don't think the senate should support a treaty that requires only half of the world to endure the economic costs of reducing emissions while developing countries are free to pollute the atmosphere and, in so doing, siphon off american industries." another cosponsor, currently secretary of defense chuck hagel, who was then a junior senator from nebraska, described the likely consequences of kyoto-style agreements in these terms, and i quote, "as industries flee the united states and other industrialized countries, they would reestablish themselves in developing countries to have a much weaker environmental standards than our own." mr. president, just one more point about the kyoto protocol, voted down, in essence, 17 years ago unanimously. a year after that, in 1998, there was a then-unknown illinois state senator who voted on legislation that denounced kyoto and prohibited state regulation of greenhouse gases in illinois, and if you guessed it was barack obama, you would be right. one of the stat