you know the latest from but journalist michael penn who joins us from tokyo welcome michael. b. has just made landfall talk us through what's happening. well the typhoon is extremely powerful in fact they're saying that it could be the most powerful typhoon to hit japan in twenty five years. however it's also fast moving it hits the concept of region which is the second largest urban area of japan and it moved quite quickly through it and is now going along the japan of sea coastline the amount of damage that it did in terms of you know ripping off rules and and smashing a ship into a bridge and cutting off the khans like airport was pretty amends but the good news is that it seems that the human toll is relatively light compared to the ferocity of the storm so far there is only reports two people have been died in a almost one hundred wounded but when you think of how strong this storm is that's that's not a very high figure that japan seems about and all of its face share of natural disasters recently thing about two thousand and eleven the typhoon and of course just a couple

and earlier we spoke with journalist a michael penn in tokyo and i asked him what has happened since gibby made landfall . well the typhoon is extremely powerful in fact they're saying that it could be the most powerful typhoon to hit japan in twenty five years. however it's also fast moving it hits the concept of region which is the second largest urban area of japan and it moved quite quickly through it and is now going along the japan of sea coastline the amount of damage that it did in terms of you know ripping off rules and and and smashing a ship into a bridge and cutting off the concierge's port was pretty amends but the good news is that it seems that the human toll is relatively light compared to the ferocity of the storm i think that among the nations of the world is probably no country that's as well prepared to deal with the massive natural disasters in japan precisely for the region reason you say it's a country which is hit by natural disasters quite regularly major earthquakes volcanoes storms and this summer in particular has been a dramatic one with a heat wave which

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it's all down right now essentially people living in hokkaido are are cut off from the world ok michael penn we thank you for giving us the update from tokyo thank you. japan has confirmed the first death as a result of the twenty eleven fukushima nuclear disaster a worker at the power plant during the emergency died of lung cancer as a result of radiation exposure a massive tsunami and earthquake in twenty eleven killed more than eighteen thousand people and destroyed the plans cooling systems sending it into town. and so more ahead on the al-jazeera news hour including suicide attacks at a sports center in the afghan capital kabul kills at least twenty people plus an emirates flight from dubai is quarantined in new york after several people fall ill during the journey. coming up in sport with peter will see how the call and deal has been received by president people on the street. the leaders of north and south korea will meet later this month. complete denuclearization kim jong un expressed his willingness for close cooperation with the u.s. during a meeting with a special envoy from sout

laur for more on this, i was joined earlr michael carpenter, former deputy assistant secretary n defense who at the penn biden center. what do you think russia is strying to signal with t soviet-era display of military strength? michael: it is a very large exercith. the hundresand russian troops, 300,000 chinese troops. i think they are trying to do a number of things here. they are trying to message the hina aret russia and together, that they are operating, they are exercising in unison, they present a united front against the w ot. that is pait. despite the fact that we know they are spying on eaczyother like cthat is the message they want to portray. they want to also practice for what is called access denial anp area deniaventing to the united states from being able to move into east asia should there in some military contingency. they're practfor that. thirdly, they are doing a large-scale exercise to practice logistics, primarily the russians on their own, and to see if they can mobinough troops for that theater of war. laura: is the presence of the chinese troops kind of of my ieenemy's enemy is

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