nhk world's kathleen ocampo reports from manila. >> china! >> back off! >> reporter: nearly 150 demonstrators gathered outside the chinese embassy in manila, voicing their criticism of recent actions by the chinese government. >> to take away something without even taking consideration your neighbors, i guess that is not a proper way. >> reporter: the latest role began april 10th when chinese marine survey ships prevented a philippine navy vessel from seizing chinese fishing boats near the shoal. as the standoff continued china instructed authorities on may 2nd to step up checks on bananas and other food grown in the philippines. there's speculation the move is effectively a countermeasure on china's part. china accuses the philippine government of being behind the backlash on friday. >> translator: it was inappropriate for the philippines to incite its people to hold the rally. this will only complicate and worsen the situation. >> reporter: the governments of both nations claim the shoal and are refusing to be the first to put out their boats. the stand

the protest staged in manila on friday involves scarborough shoal in the south china sea. the territory is claimed by both china and the philippines. the demonstrations come one month after china deployed vessels in the area. nhk world's kathleen ocampo reports from manila. >> china! >> back off! >> china! >> back off! >> reporter: nearly 150 demonstrators gathered outside the chinese embassy in manila, voicing their criticism of recent actions by the chinese government. >> to take away something without even taking consideration your neighbors, i guess that is not a proper way. >> reporter: the latest row began april 10th when chinese marine survey ships prevented a philippine navy vessel from seizing chinese fishing boats near the shoal. as the standoff continued china instructed authorities on may 2nd to step up checks on bananas and other food grown in the philippines. there's speculation the move is effectively a countermeasure on china's part. china accuses the philippine government of being behind the backlash on friday. >> translator: it was inappropriate for the p

manila reciprocated with its own measures to suspend official there. they intervening with friday's protest, president aquino wanted to avoid any further escalation of the standoff. kathleen ocampo, nhk world, zumbares. >>> turning to afghanistan now the war-torn country will be the subject of intense discussions at a nato summit scheduled to open in chicago on sunday. u.s. special envoy to afghanistan and pakistan mark grossman spoke to nhk ahead of the meeting. he stressed the importance of long-term financial support for reconstruction. nato countries are starting the long process of winding down combat operations in afghanistan. the chicago summit will discuss how to achieve that in the face of lingering violence. grossman says long-term financial aid is crucial, and he emphasized the role played by japan. >> japan is going to play a very important role between now and 2014, keeping up support for our afghan national security forces, for example, keeping focused on economic development. i believe these are all things japan will continue to do. >> n

last friday, protesters in manila denounced china's government. the philippines said it does not recognize the ban as it covers the country's exclusive economic zone. but the country also said that due to accelerated depletion of its marine resources, it should issue its own ban to replenish fish stocks. >>> afghan security forces are ready to play a greater security role in the country. the government has announced that its troops will take over security for three more provinces from nato-led forces. cholaphousa narula has the details. >> by the end of the year, it plan to be responsible for the security of 75% of the country's people. there's been little sign of any progress stabilizing the country. that's leading some observers to raise questions about the wisdom of the plan. nhk world aimal faizi reports. >> reporter: anti-government groups will continue to pose a threat, but we will keep our peace-building efforts. >> reporter: afghanistan on sunday announced, a plan to transfer security responsibility from nato-led forces to afghan troops. t

today washington and manila have called there are alliance quote. for peace stability and prosperity in asia pacific do you agree with that assessment. well that that assessment could be true only for one party to the agreement so it's really a one sided. which is beneficial primarily for the u.s. which has huge geopolitical interests in this region of the world and unfortunately for the philippines our government we're just getting crumbs in exchange for promises of u.s. support promises for the modernization of our armed forces and in helping us against any threats from china and from what we've experienced over the past six decades that alliance friendship is really not so much beneficial for the philippines than it is for the united states i say it's not open official for the philippines as it is for the u.s. government but you were talking a moment ago about how it's advantageous geo politically speaking for america what why why is it advantageous geo politically speaking well. started the year we we saw the u.s. announcements of their new defe

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envelope. >> smith: who hand manila envelope? >> the cia person on the ground. >> smith: soufan opened th envelope. after many months of having his requests for information ignored by the cia, he now had three cia surveillance photos taken at a 9/11 planning meeting in the malaysian capital, kuala lumpur. the cia wanted to know if one of the men was khallad. soufan took the photo back to quso. >> and he said, "this guy looks like khallad, but he just looks like him. i'm not sure if it's him." >> smith: soufan was incensed that the agency hadn't shared their intelligence months earlier. the cia asked him to look at yet another photo. >> and basically, my answer wa "how many people need to die in order to know how many freaking photos there is out there?" so we get another photo. i mean, i didn't need to ask quso. obviously, it's khallad. we know what he looks like. this is definitely khallad attash. >> smith: khallad was linked to the 9/11 plot. from malaysia, he had flown with two of the hijackers, khalid al mihdhar and nawaf al

he cannot extend the manila scared of this aircraft he decided to put the plan down in a marshy area of the bay. the plan was not damaged. three dozen people are homeless after a fire ripped through an apartment building in san francisco. four people were hurt. anne mackovic was there when the flames erupted >>> burning for a long time and tons of smoke it kept igniting through different windows >>> the fire started just before 10:00 a.m. in this apartment building on valencia and quickly was out of control. >>> if the don't get the fire will lose more buildings >>> the fire spread to the attic of the building next door. >>> i peeked out and saw people in their pajamas so when you had to evacuate >>> firefighters aggressively attack the fire from the inside until a staircase collapsed, injuring three firefighters. two were taken to hospital to others in the up with minor injuries. a woman who lives there was hospitalized for smoke inhalation. >>> sing my neighbors who lost their building crying it was a gut reaction >>> firefighters say this bluebell in behind me is a total loss. the

i am originally from manila, philippines, and a local resident of san francisco. due to the economic downturn, i've been unemployed. the diagnosis for cancer makes matters worse for me. fortunately, i found mission hiring hall. they convinced me to enroll in the construction administration program. the active participation of the volunteers in this program has great contributed in preparing me for employment in the construction industry. presently, i have my health back. my only hope of getting perm anent employment in this industry is when the project is implemented. i support rebuilding cpmc because of the jobs it will generate. i believe that cpmc will be able to continue to provide the exceptional health care that it is known for with state of the art facilities in its new seismically safe building. i need a job. i do not want to be a problem to the city. i want to be a solution. please vote yes today. thank you. >> good afternoon. i'm here representing the bay area council. we are public policy advocacy organization. i would like to give you a little bit of p

in jakarta, in manila. workers across asia are demanding better pay and better conditions. many are worried they will lose out in the process of globalization. >> for the first time in 20 years, labor groups have banded together to support the passage of the security of tenure bill and to support for an across- the-board wage increase, to push for lower oil and electricity prices, and more important to push for more rights to labor unions. >> here in europe, a spanish unions led demonstrations across the country. workers' protest against austerity measures. spaniards are angry. >> i am mad because of what i see now, and that is we are losing what we have been fighting for over the past 50 years. during the years of the working class struggle. the struggle for health care and for schools. and now the inquisition is taking everything from us. if we do not take to the streets, it will be like it was under franco. >> protesters were also out in force in greece, where authorities have responded with strikes and blockades. so far, too little affect. one of the biggest labor day d

temperature-wise, another scorching day in bangkok. 38 degrees. 34 in manila. 30 in taipei as well as in hong kong. a little bit cooler in tokyo, just 19 degrees, under the influence of that rain coming through. but wednesday we'll be sunny and jumping up to 27 degrees. so a hot day. all right. let's head into north america. out west, right across much of the north of the u.s. and canada, things are looking fairly clear and calm. there is more severe weather, though, today. and it hasn't changed much in terms of position from yesterday. it's going to be new mexico through texas and down into northern northeastern mexico. potential for hail, damaging winds, and also for tornadoes. we're getting a lot of humidity coming up from the gulf of mexico here. that's also helping to produce lots of showers across the atlantic coast from miami, excuse me, florida, i should say, to the northeast, and the heavy rain is going to be pushing into new england today. another wet day also for the upper midwest. we're going to see a system coming in here. you can see it dashing through ontario there. it'

it is hot to the south. 36 degrees in manila and 39 in bangkok. most of indo china seeing the intense oranges and the heat will keep coming. 31 degrees in hong kong and 20s and finally we are seeing more comfortable temperatures. the freezing mark for the high and that should feel a lot better. 23 degrees in tokyo and dry most of the day and we will see hefty showers. north america, severe weather and tuesday in the southern plains and just to the south of the low here at the ohio valley. they will experience nasty thunderstorms as well. it will weaken off into tuesday. there is more severe weather to come and the system is spreading across the u.s.-canada border. it will be coming down towards the central plains in the upper mississippi valley. again, damaging winds and hail is possible. as well as thunder and lightning. it will feel chilly. lots of cold showers spreading through and the cascades and you can see about 30 centimeters of snow and winter storm conditions for the northern rockies. look at temperatures and below average 11 and 12 resp

japan, china, south korea, and the association of southeast asian nations reached the agreement in manila. the new system would allow fund injections before it would affect any of the nations. the agreement follows a similar move by the group of 20 nations last month to increase the lending capacity of t international monetary fund. the asian economic leaders also agreed to double the current regional currency swap pool to $240 billion to prevent future crises. >> translator: stabilizing the asia financial system, which is the weakest part of the asia economy s very important when leading the world economy. >>> prior to the meeting japan, south korea and china agreed to join forces to prevent the european credit crisis from spilling into asia. the group agreed the asian economy is stable and on a recovery course. the the concerns remain over europe's debt problems and volatile movements and exchange rates. the three nations confirmed they will further deepen financial and economic ties. in a joint statement officials announced they will promote investment by foreign reserve authorities in

we'll start with the great fights of all-time there's was the thrilla in manila. >> this is the toddlerle. check this out. two little ones all dressed up for ballet. they had ideas, completely forgetting about the routine and giving each other a pretty hard time. >> they were all put back in their tutu places. when adults finally stepped in. they are mad. >> unbelievable. >>> and now to southern california, and clint eastwood's newest crime-fighting role, kind of. >> a plywood cut-out of eastwood's character is now watching over a stretch of freeway, he's been standing guard for a couple of weeks. >>> a mystery here. the sign says it's part of a local public art project. but they don't know any of the project. >>> five young deers wonder in and started drinking the beer that party goers were using for a game of beer pong. >> the owner said they're not afraid of people and obviously they love adventure. they rounded up and everyone got home safely for a good night's sleep. >> what do you do when you're confronted by these thousand-pound beasts? >> step away slowly. >> slowly step away. i

the philippines has now launched a protest to the chinese embassy in manila, alleging chinese fishing boats continue to operate near the disputed scar borough shore. >> the idea is to defuse the tension, and not to escalate the circumstance in the area. and we think that this is going against their statements that they want to de-escalate the situation. >> more than ten chinese fishing boats were still operating near the shore. china said last week it was banning its vessels from fishing in the area. the spokesman added that the patrol of sailing ships increased to five at one point on monday. the standoff began in mid-april when ships blocked a frigate. the philippines banned its own restrictions in the area. ongoing activity by chinese boats could reignite anger among people in the philippines. >>> turning to south asia now, a group of countries including pakistan has signed a deal to build a gas pipeline from turkmenistan, the long-delayed project could help ease pakistan's chronic energy shortages. it's also attracts attention from the united states as a possible way of adding pre

temperature wise, 35 degrees expected for both manila and bangkok. clearing conditions in hong kong, with a high of 29 degrees. tokyo, very cool. 15 degrees. as we've been reporting, tokyo sky tree will open today, but it may be surrounded by clouds. now, heading over to the americas, we are keeping an eye on tropical storm alberto, which is still sitting off the southeast coast of the u.s. it's likely to move away from mainland u.s. and could become a remnant low by your wednesday morning. however, dangerous surf and rip currents should remain along the southeast coast through monday. as we pull back, wet conditions across the eastern section of the u.s. and canada, and out toward the west, there are a couple of low-pressure systems moving along the u.s./canada border. things will turn quite severe in parts of the northern plains. thunderstorms, gusty wednesday and ev winds and hail are possible on your tuesday. down toward the west, severe weather can be found in parts of texas as well as eastern oklahoma tonight. temperature wise, still on the hot

manila, 34. bangkok, 34 as well accompanied by afternoon and evening thunderstorms.ook into the americas here, tropical storm beryl is continuing to push on shore, bringing heavy rainfall with it. didn't make landfall around midnight on monday morning here, right around jacksonville. now it is expected to continue to linger along first coast, across southern georgia, over towards northern florida and as doing so it going to bring in very heavy rainfall, up to 250 millimeters could be found in some locations here just towards the southwest of jacksonville. a broad area of rainfall expected over 100 millimeters of rain. especially just north of jacksonville, that moisture will continue to push on shore, bringing high waves with it. coastal flooding and also beach erosion is going to be high risk here across portions of eastern georgia. let's pull back the picture and look to the west. we have this frontal system coming across the plains now, extending to the great lakes region this is already brought some tornado activity with it and now going into the next 24 hours, u

looking at temperatures in manila, at 33. shanghai at 24. as well as in seoul and tokyo, you're looking at a high of 33. on your thursday. all right. over towards the americas. here in the southeast, the big topic has been a tropical depression, beryl. finally, it's going to be moving out here. we will quickly start to rush off to the northeast. it will intensify up to a tropical storm as it does move off the coast. the winds will be remaining off the coast. that is the heaviest rainfall could hit some areas in the outer banks bringing the threat of some localized coastal flooding, and even beach erosion. outside of that, that storm's quickly going to rush off to the northeast. by the end of the week, it will be well out into the atlantic. also in the central plains, we're looking at severe weather. cool air is definitely surging in from the north here. warm air from the south. as these two collide, yet again tornadoes are coming out of this area. hail baseball size. you've got to think about the force coming from a piece of ice that large.

i was very fortunate to play a role with pete dandridge in the making of a documentary on aqua manila vessels for pouring waters in the ald ages, usually in the shape of dragons or beasts. >> there was a project that we have with bard. they had been very anxious to have a medieval show. so peter suggested that we focus on the museum's collection of aqua manilia. and we thought it would be wonderful to try to replicate the original casting technology that was associated with the manufacture. the replication process with ubaldo was extremely time consuming and long and required an extensive amount of work. we have a great reference for the middle ages, in the 12th century manuscript who wrote extensively on metal working processes. he had described the casting process. and there's a moment when you actually are making the alloy itself, where the zinc oxide voltivizes and we could see the zinc oxide crystals that had accumulated on that surface and then to also see what had been the original copper blanks that now had a golden brassy quality, it was sort of this magical moment. and no on

eisenhower worked at the closest -- intimacy with macarthur for eight years, for in washington and in manilaand it began with ike was a major in the war department staff in 1931, macarthur was chief of staff, and eisenhower became this military secretary in washington, and then when eisenhower -- when macarthur retired as chief of staff and went to manila in 1935 to head the pill european army eisenhower went with him, it began really with absolute hero worship, on eisenhower's part, hero worship of macarthur and by the end of the eight years, there was mutual hostility between the two. >> who was the most brilliant man? >> that is very difficult to say, they were -- they were able in different ways if we go back to the mexican war like winfield scott and general taylor, stack i are taylor, winfield scott, old feathers, grant wore all the uniforms the law would allow, patrician background where eisenhower on the other hand is like zachary taylor, who was perfectly happy to go around in denham trousers and mingle with the troops. eisenhower was perfect for commanding a volunteer army. he was

we'll start with the great fights of all-time, there was the thrilla in manila.rum nbl the jungle. >> this is the toddler tussle. check this out. two little ones all dressed up for ballet. they had ideas, though, completely forgetting about the routine and giving each other a pretty hard time. >> they were all put back in their tutu places. when adults finally stepped in. they are mad. >> unbelievable. >>> and now to southern california, and clint eastwood's newest crime-fighting role, kind of. >> a plywood cutout of eastwood's character joe is now watching over a stretch of freeway, he's been standing guard for a couple of weeks. >>> and there's something of a mystery here. the sign says it's part of a local public art project. but local authorities say they don't know of any such project. >>> finally who invited the cows to the college reunion? >> that's what they were asking last week in massachusetts. when five young steers wonder in and started drinking the beer that party goers were using for a game of beer pong. >> it turns out, they were from a farm down

temperatures look like this, 33 in manila, hong kong, 28, beijing, high 20s. 27 to 24 in seoul and tokyolet's look into europe. much of central europe, you're going to be seeing high pressure dominate here. it is bringing the risk of some fire weather. towards the west, fire burning in spain currently. i want to show you video coming out of there as some firefighters continue to be backed by about 13 helicopters, battling a wind fueled wildfire that ravaged 5,000 acres of land in the region. fire broke out on tuesday in northeastern catalonia region and forced about 52 people to be evacuated from their homes. and fortunately, as you can see here, rough terrain is dominating a region. this is exasperating the situation and making it that much harder to fight the fire. let's pull back the picture because of some good news on tap here. this low pressure area moving in from the north, this is bringing some rain showers and expecting to see a wet weekend down here in northern spain. also extending out towards france, unstable weather will be persisting, bringing the risk of thunderstorms as w

the plots in the manila. was good work by the fbi and cia that lead him to khalid sheikh mohammed. he was working for the ministry of water and cutter. one of the membersful royal family had i don't know if it's a guarantees employment program. he brought a lot of the over to cutter and let them hang out an farm he thought they were an important service to the slammic world. he was using his job as bureaucrat there as a travel and the fbi very much wanted to get him when they were there. we have a letter from the fbi director lewis who was e-mailing the government and saying so you a very dangerous terrorist here. we want to get him and we need your cooperation. there was a lot of back and phot. it went to the deputies meeting. instead of doing a snatch and grab, or even pushing him out or they were trying to find a way to get him to fly out of the country so they could grab anymore another country. they were working on that. but ultimately, the u.s. government decided to go through the front door and ask the

temperature wise, 35 degrees expected for both manila and bangkok. clearing conditions in hong kong, with a high of 29 degrees. tokyo, very cool. 15 degrees. as we've been reporting, tokyo sky tree will open today, but it may be surrounded by clouds. now, heading over to the americas, we are keeping an eye on tropical storm alberto, which is still sitting off the southeast coast of the u.s. it's likely to move away from mainland u.s. and could become a remnant low by your wednesday morning. however, dangerous surf and rip currents should remain along the southeast coast through monday. as we pull back, wet conditions across the eastern section of the u.s. and canada, and out toward the west, there are a couple of low-pressure systems moving along the u.s./canada border. things will turn quite severe in parts of the northern plains. thunderstorms, gusty winds and hail are possible on your tuesday. down toward the south, severe weather can be found in parts of texas as well as eastern oklahoma tonight. temperature wise, still on the hot side across the

manila as well as bangkok. 27 in hang docong kong. 12 in ulam bator. fairly chilly day. 25 in tokyo. we're likely to see the severe weather coming through from the afternoon hours. all right. as we head into north america, we're going to start down here in the southeast. as you know, yesterday, tropical storm beryl made level just around jacksonville in florida. now, the system has since come down to a tropical depression. the winds down to 45 kilometers an hour. is moving very slowly, around 7 kilometers an hour. so this system, the winds are not too much of a threat right now, however, the rain is continuing to fall, and it will continue to fall over the next couple of days. as it makes its way up through georgia and in toward north carolina. now, once it leaves north carolina, comes back into the water, over those warm waters and gets out of that rough terrain, it is likely to energize again, once again becoming a tropical storm. we're certainly not out of the woods where the system is concerned. the rain, alone, is going to prove a problem. 100 mil

and already in manila, you're seeing some flooding reports due to some of these bands pushing into the the circulation. not only the floods, but then what comes with that is the risk of landslides on some of the steeper elevations. we'll keep you posted as the system does continue to develop through the next several days. look off here towards the north, southern japanese islands, all that area is in red. this is due to a separate system that is bringing widespread rain showers, actually amani prefecture on the source of the northern portions of the japanese islands there, you're seeing upwards of about 150 millimeters in the past 24 hours. unfortunately, the next 24 could see up to about 80 millimeters. good news it will start to taper off going into friday evening. then unfortunately, as that whole boundary starts to lift back up to the north yet again it will be picking back up through saturday. even some few isolated thunderstorms could pop up along the eastern portions of honshu. tokyo, your afternoon and evening hours, a few isolated storms going into your weekend as well. temper

temperatures looking like this, though, manila, 34. hong kong, 28. beijing getting all the way up to 27 for your high. ulan batur with a high of 15, yet freezing temperatures into your overnight hours. now into the americas. let's first talk about tropical depression now beryl. it is lingering here and moving ever so slowly off towards the north at 4 kilometers per hour. good news, it will finally get a move on here getting into tuesday and into wednesday as an upper level trough starts to work its way in from the north. for the time being, you're still expect something heavy rainfall here. now the center of circulation is actually here, just along southern georgia, but you have that counterclockwise circulation around this low and it is picking up moisture out of the gulf of mexico here and moving it across northern florida and dropping all that rainfall. thunderstorm activity and even a brief weak tornado could occur here with this. but what is going to be ushering this off is this cold front coming out of the great lakes, already widespread hail r

temperature wise, getting up to 33 degrees in manila, 29 degrees in hong kong. still on the hot side in beijing, reaching 32 degrees. tokyo, three degrees lower than yesterday, 24 degrees expected. now, moving over to the americas a low pressure system is sliding across the u.s./canada border, producing scattered showers across the western half of canada as well as the northern rockies. rain could become heavy at times on your friday. down toward the south, very strong, dry, and warm air is flowing in. raising the risk of wildfires across the four corners region. unfortunately, dry weather should remain into your friday. out towards the east, getting dry across much of the eastern half of the u.s. however, southwestern corner of the state may see pop-up showers during the heat of the day. temperature wise, 31 degrees expected in miami. the same goes for houston. the heat is extending all the way up to central canada. 31 in winnipeg, which is about more than ten degrees higher than average, but out toward the west, still on the chilly side. 15 degrees in seattle