. >> lang lang grew up in an industrial city in northern china. his father was a tough task master, demanding he practice 8 hours a day... once even urging his young son to commit suicide. >> it's kind of a hard thing to even think about it. it's something that... i think the love become too extreme. >> a child prodigy, his mother stayed home to support the family while lang lang pursued his dreams. >> i would say that's the most difficult thing for me it was, you know, growing up without my mom next to me. >> now lang lang is trying to bring classical notes into the lives of children through his international music foundation. >> we believe music can make people happier, to make the kids more creative. >> one of his earliest inspirations... the cartoon musicians tom and jerry. >> so it's really cool when you see, you know, tom try to catch him like... [plays discordant piano sounds]. >> i sat down with lang lang at the dimenna center for classical music in new york city. >> you've just come from playing at the kennedy center. you played for a wor

. >> an illegal fireworks warehouse in northern china exploded killing 15 people and two others were injured. you can see the blown out windows and debris everywhere. neighboring business damaged some located up to a mile away. >>> there's an all out search for a kentucky mother of five who has been missing for more than a week and a half. 35-year-old crystal roger was last seen by her live in boyfriend and the father of her 2-year-old son on july 3. police say they found her car in an area her family said she rarely visited. her keys and purse and uncharged cell phone was inside the car. her boyfriend took a lie detecter test that was deemed inconclusive. the family said they are not convinced. >> beyond how you live with the mother of your baby for 3 and a half years and you don't report her missing. >> the family is offering # $1,000 for information leading to the discovery. >> it was one of the most highly anticipated book releases ever. get set a watchman was the most preordered book since heart port. but -- "harry potter." the his or her of -- hero of story atticus finch takes

laura: 6 british tourists arrested in northern china are being deported.hey were detained in inner mongolia. a foreign ministry spokesman said the group was suspected of committing crimes. five others remain in custody. ♪ laura: scientists have been celebrating the arrival of details and images of pluto sent back by the new horizons spacecraft. from mission control in maryland, david shukman reports. david: a mesmerizing view of pluto reveals extraordinary details of mountains made of ice . the image reached earth this morning, and no one can explain it. a new view of pluto's largest moon. an unprecedented site of an alien world with dramatic scenery, including an unexpected canyon. >> it is four to six miles deep. i find that fascinating. it is a small world with deep canyons, troughs, clips, dark regions that are still slightly mysterious to us. david: this all began in january 2006 with the fastest launch. a new horizons space craft. after flying for nine point five years, the spacecraft arrived 72 seconds early. the approach transformed our view of plu

san francisco i believe is the closest northern american city to china so we have that advantage and long culltulator heritage. the chinese played a significant role in moderning california to the railroad and gold rush. as i said my challenge isn't finding business it is sorting through it so your points are good. the cruise business is on my [inaudible] i haven't capitalized on the sister city relationship with shanghai but that is #1347ck we can and should do >> i just want to say this year is the 35 anversevy of the shanghai sister city relationship so it is great time to capitalize on that&if i may, one last comment because commission rb adams brought up about the american chamber of commerce. the american chamber of commerce in shanghai is the oldest outside the united states and the lastest. it is the oldest this year t is their 100th anniversary so it is ongoing celebration but the significance for this group is the currents chairman who is a successful business man, he is finishing this 4th year is a american been in china a long time. his name is robert thomean and commissi

this lined up perfect order when it comes to what we have in eastern areas of china and northern taiwanwell. we will dive in to nilinfa. five areas of active weather. impressive sight. the initial one a strong tropical storm shy of a category one hurricane. guangdong province, 7 million people live in hong kong metro. you can see tremendous flooding over the region and then go farther to sea and we have typhoon chan-hom which is 150 kilometers an hour. strong category one closing in on a category two equivalent and the concern is the massive side of the storm. you take the storm and put it over the united states it would be comparable to alaska. or the country of mexico as far as how expansive the cloud system is. it will strengthen over the next couple of days. population density in the dark red, 1500 people per square kilometer or more. this would be on the order of 24 plus million people around shanghai. behind that we have another typhoon. this is off shore of the united states. one of the more beautiful towns in the united states that you have never heard of. if you are born here a

but not only in southern china, also we're seeing this dragging moisture into northern portions of the philippines. while linfa is up to the north, it's steering moisture into luzon. be prepared for heavy rainfall. there's chan-hom moving into the west. plenty of rain and windy conditions are in place. we do have an 11th named storm. this is nangka. moving at 15 kilometers per hour. packing winds of 162, gusting to 234. still moving to the west/northwest. expected to make a sharp turn towards the north. as we go into the weekend, we'll have to see what impacts it has up to the north, if any, as we go to next week. let's switch gears and talk about something not so tropical. weather in europe. low pressure continuing to steer a lot of moisture into the northern portions of the continent and also toward the east. so we're expecting rain and storms to continually develop further eastward toward russia. meanwhile back towards the west, 42 degrees in cordoba. hot temperatures into place into the weekend. please take care as we are going to see these unusually warm temperatures. now, final s

northern senegal. >>> largest winged dinosaur ever found as been dug up in northeastern china.unearthed a spectacularly preserved nearly complete fossil of a feathered dinosaur with wings. it's thought the dinosaur named. [ inaudible ] which means dragon in chinese lived about 125 million years ago. probably won't find anything that old on our website as it's been constantly updated. the address there aljazerra.com. making the new deal stick, it's the dawn of a new era or doom to veil. if oil is the cover of the mist. i want to drill in to how the deal with iran may bit them against the united states, israel and saudi arabia. today we got more insight into the depth of

northern areas as we go into tuesday. now, heavy rain is causing plenty across the southern end of china. we have video coming out. take a look. persistent downpours led to flooding and serious road problems this weekend from friday through sunday the high continuous rain, this led to a road caving in due to the collapse of draining pipes leading to an suv and a bus. officials say it will take a few days before the road is prepared. more than 500 millimeters of rain fell. however more rain is expected for the next several days. flooding is going to persist. we have two more systems over asia. this will cause more rain over myanmar and northeast of india an pakistan is being hit with heavy rainfall. across the americas frost is causing more rain flooding across the peninsula, more rain is expected for the rest of the workweek. a serve weather makeer is moving towards the forth, dropping rainfall hail and thunderstorms and tornadoes. we have three reports of tornadoes over the northern areas and more tornadoes are expected the next couple of days. temperatures ahead of the system quite high this time of year. we hav

northern nigeria. thank you so much. we appreciate that. >>> tensions between china and turkey erupt after protests against the chinese governmenturns violent. we'll have an update coming up from beijing. >>> welcome back everyone. china is warning citizens traveling in turkey to be careful and some tourists were attacked in istanbul during anti-chinese protests. [ speaking foreign language ]. >> hundreds marching protesting against the chinese government's treatment of uyghurs, a muslim ethnic group in western china. they are banned from worshipping and fasting during ramadan. >> we want to go to our senior international correspondent ivan watson who is in beijing. what measures are in place to ensure the safety of chinese tourists going forward in turkey? >> reporter: well the chinese government is advising chinese tourists in turkey to quote, avoid going out alone. that's one of the precautionary measures in this safety warning that has gone out after the chinese government says some of its tourists were attacked and harassed in these anti-chinese protests. relatively small ones that did get a little bit violent? some locatio

northern senegal. >> take a look at this: evidence of the largest winged dinosaur ever found has been unearthed in northeastern chinantists dug up a spectacularly preserved, nearly complete fossil of a feathered dinosaur with wings. the fossil is named jinwan long or jin juan's dragon. it's thought the dinosaur lived about 125 million years ago although scientists doubt whether the creature actually could fly. there is more real news from al jazeera along with video, analysis, and comment at our website aljazeera.com. i'm antonio mora, goodnight. >>> when crime was high, a generation with highest levels of incarcerations, now that state budgets are under pressure, and the crime is lower, is the country open to

taper off but now towards the northern areas with 100 mill mite meters of rainfall and tokyo on and off showers at 24 degrees. heat advisories in place in northeastern china and look heating up to 30 on your tuesday. now severe weather is impacting here in the americas. it's a line of that creating lots of hailstorms, but this actually created hailstorms across parts of alberta. this issis image from the area where they were enjoying a festival saturday. the hail fell for about ten minutes. this was an incredible image from here. that's a quite dangerous situation but now affect the western great lakes into northern texas so anywhere along it strong gusts and tornados cannot be ruled out. out towards the west of that the pacific northwest is still seeing those temperatures soaring into the 30s. again, isolated dry thunderstorms could ignite more wildfires, so please do watch out for your flammable items. i'll leave you now for the extended forecast. >>> that's all for this hour on "news line." thank you for >> "euromaxx highlights." and here's your host, louise houghton. louise: thanks for tuning in to our highlights show, where we bring you our reports f

south and south central china hot and sunny skies out here, high pressure continues to dominate and it will continue to linger through the next several days, some areas northern upward high 30s and low 40s getting into the 30s in south korea into the mid 30s. don't forget that's not including humidity. heat index could feel like the 40s there, as well. stay hydrated stay cool out there. as we take a look towards europe thunderstorms continuing to flair up here into western portions of russia. actually some large hail and funnel clouds reported with that one and back towards the west we have another low pushing through the central portions. i want to take your attention towards the south because the mediterranean, it's hot and dry. that creates it's own problems. let's look at video in spain and france because the heat and dryness here is made for wildfires in northeastern spain. tort fortunately weaker winds helps slow advance but officials explain the blaze was the biggest in the region and nearly 1,000 acres of land got burned. wildfires broke out friday afternoon and in france 530 of pine forest were burned and 600 people were evacuated and looks like the

china since the communist government took control. >>> police are looking into a double stabbing in northern virginia.happened along richmond highway in the hybla valley neighborhood. one of the neighbors drove the two men the two victims to the hospital. they were in stable condition at last check. police say the suspects and the victims may have known each other. they have not arrested anyone. >> bob mcdonnell reviewing legal options after a court defeat. they rejected all his arguments for an appeal on his corruption conviction. we went through 90 pages of the ruling. it was rough news for the governor. the judge upheld his two-year sentence meaning he could serve prison time. he was found guilty of doing favors for a ceo in exchange for gifts and loans. >>> a man accused of impersonating a police officer is facing more charges. sharif ahmad is charged by abduction by force, attempted robbery and use of a firearm in a felony after an incident tuesday. he's being held without bail this morning. back in february, you may remember, he was arrested for impersonating a police officer in prince william c

heat affecting northern korea, especially south, north korea and spotty showers expected in the seoul area as we head into the weekend. heavy rain across north vietnam and southern end of china. across the right side of the stream a tropical storm is moving over the water. this is number 13 named storm for the western pacific. this will likely intensify to a strong typhoon into early next week and eventually could affect okinawa islands as well as taiwan as we go into the latter part of next week. a cyclonic storm hit bangladesh thursday. it has now become a depression. still rain and winds in areas, miramar and bangladesh. this will likely make its way towards eastern india. remaining quite stormy across places as we go through early next week. here is your extended forecast. ♪ ♪ >>> here on "newsline," our top story once again. international olympic committee members have picked beijing for the 2022 winter olympic games. that makes it the first city to host both the summer and winter games. beijing previously hosted the 2008 summer olympics. >> beijing. [ cheers and applause ] beijing won the bid. the city was competing with kazakhstan. beijing expresses it plans to make u

china. this we will be keeping a close eye on. wet weather expected in the rainy season. a quick look at north america. we have strong weather in northern portions of the continent. hot weather taking place in california. we are looking at temperatures in the 30s for places like seattle through monday.úqúqúqúqúqúc to greece's no vote. germany says there are no grounds for a debt restructuring. greece's yanis varoufakis has resigned as finance minister saying he has been made aware of his presence could be hampering negotiations with the eurozone. pope francis has arrived in ecuador for the first leg of his south american trip. over one million people are expected to attend a mass given by the pontiff.

. >> stay with us here on the news hour china passes a new law giving the state tighter controls over cyberspace. >> i'm on haiti's northern border with the dominican republic. there are expected to be thousands of deportees coming back to haiti. does the country have anywhere to house them? >> argentina puts six past paraguay in the copa america. that is in sport, a little later. >> tens of thousands of people have taken part in pro democracy rallies in hong kong. this came as the territory marked the 18th anniversary of its hand over to china. this was the first large scale pro tested since lawmakers voted against electoral reforms which would have allowed beijing to vet candidates. we have the latest from hong kong. >> much more than numbers at this year's marsh estimated in the tens of thousands compared with the 500,000 who came out at the same time last year. in part, the reason seems to be protests. this is a city that has gone through a tumultuous political year with street protests, street occupations disrupting life here for several weeks. there is a feeling of disillusion about what has been achieved at the end

across northern japan including tohoku where we have report of about 200 millimeters in and around yamagata prefecture. the bulk of the very heavy rain will also be seen here across southern chinawhere we have reports of about 250 millimeters just in the past 24 hours, but this has been an ongoing situation, so this is what we're looking at. the ongoing rev heavy rain has caused flooding on tuesday and wednesday. there's a report of nine deaths and injuries. some areas received over 300 millimeters of rain and over 120,000 people were affected. the rain storm. you can see hundreds of armed police officers were sent for relief operations. it looks like the situation could even get worse because we are going to be seeing this place pounded with more significant amounts of rainfall which could top 100 to 200 millimeters in some areas. we'll be looking at this area with drenching rainfall of 200 to even 300 millimeters because of the western monsoonal flow being very active and pulling into the coast of the indo china peninsula. thunderstorms across bangkok. chongqing reaching 35 degrees, 35 for saturday and sunday here in tokyo. so heat stroke will be at high risk. here across eur

you can see we're on the northern side of southern california. this is the area where we are. china beach. golden gate bridge over here. we're close to the edge of the water here. there's some loose soil and roots. once you get close to the edge, it's a long drop down toward the water. firefighters saying that that's one of the things that makes it such a particularly dangerous area, especially this morning. so dark in this area at night. >> there are no lights. this is not a good place to hike. a lot of narrow paths and roads. and if you are not familiar with the these trails, it's easy to fall off the-- off the cliffs. >> the man was hiking with a friend at about 12:00 or 1:00 in the morning. reportedly fell down a 300-foot cliff here. emergency workers found him about 5 feet above the water. they say when they called out to him. he whats not responding -- he was not responding. that caused concern. workers climbed down. he was taken to a hospital. he appeared to be conscious and alert when he was taken to the hospital. regular hikers in the area say it can be dangerous in the are

northern italian wine. >> mm-hm. >> and you like you can eat in different district of wine country every night. >> isn't this supposed to be communist chinast party, comrades party member? >> no, no. i'm a bit of a red diaper baby. but what i mean to say is it just seems that the realm of the possible here is very big. >> absolutely. it's a big stage. >> mm-hm. >> in new york city or other places in the world, you can see that. they might build a massive project. but that's probably the only one in the whole city. but in shanghai there's ten massive projects coming up. and there's ten more coming up in the next couple of years. you know, it's a big world, big city, but small village at the end. and i think food is the best weapons on earth to make peace. it's the food. it's the drink. we have better peace on earth. and you're probably the united nations ambassador. >> in time. >> and these little shrimps are from south pole. and only new zealand has the right to farm them. >> right. >> try it. with a little wasabi if you like. >> a lot of chinese restaurant in new york. >> i grew up in the '50s and the '60s. and even then, chinese restaur

northern parts of pakistan, those heavy downfalls will continue. lots of showers through the western gaps eastern gaps. myanmar and into western china, adrian.any thanks indeed. approaching the halfway point on this news hour. still to come looking for accusations of government harassment in the philippines and how it might be connected to the man at the very top, plus: >> reporting from hong kong on why the territory's press freedom has deteriorated so drastically over the past few years. access denied. top footballers sent home from indonesia without leaving the airport. ♪ >>> great to have you with us. here with the newshour from al jazeera. our top stories this hour. in the past few minutes, saudi arabia has announced a humanitarian cease-fire in yemen beginning at midday on sunday. for a second straight night, turkish fighter jets have carried out airstrikes targeting isil positions in syria. they have also hit areas in northern iraq targeting camps belonging to the kurdistan workers party or pkk. barack obama laid a wreath in memory of those killed in the 1998 embassy bombing. 200 kenyans and 12 americans died in that attack. obama's o

china back to the top story, the greek debt crisis. many businesses in greece are struggling because of a lack of capital. hoda abdel-hamid travelled to the northern greek fishing port where half of the businesses have closed since the crisis began. >> reporter: it's a postcard image of greece. a port postcard and fisher many. it doesn't escape the harsh reality. >> translation: until now we survive. i don't know if i'll be able to continue. these days starting a fishing business is madness. i inherited this and will pass it to my son. >> reporter: the family had been casting their net in the aegean see for five generations, this is one of the most important fishing ports in the country, a reputation difficult to understand. normally this market would be buzzing with people coming here to get fresh produce. now stores are empty, half the shelves closed and the fishmongers say that they are selling about 60% less than before. since the banks closed more than a week ago, there's barely anyone here. >> the price of fish has not changed. people do not have money to buy. the last three, four days, no one came that's why i'm so sad. >> reporter: fish is

northern thailand. once known as kingdom of a million rice fields, it's a fertile, green and gorgeous area, home of the ancient lanna people. welcome to chiang mai province, tucked up near the borders of burma, chinaall of them have left their mark on the food. >> here's the local hootch. lao khao. >> and if you're eating here, chances are, you're also drinking. >> compared to the stuff we had this morning, this is substantially more harsh, i would say. and less fragrant. >> the village of mae wang. in this place it's called hin tang. how did you find this place? we're in the middle of nowhere. >> it's a very popular place. >> a restaurant showcasing one of the distinguishing elements of northern thai cuisine, the heavy use of animal protein. >> you see the local people, they're lining up. here in northern thailand, pig reigns supreme. most of the stuff we're eating here is made out of pig. >> what did you order? >> grilled pig tail. >> that sounds superb. >> yep. then we ordered some sai oua, northern thai herbal pork sausage. >> oh, yeah, i'm on that. >> brain. some pig's brain. >> yeah. i'm not a big brain fan. a custardy sort of texture, coupled with this sort of nutty taste. frankly, i would

china. >>> rob is here with the weather and we are talking about three tropical cyclones. >> you are right and nothing for a month and two in the northernore and one in the south. >> when it rains it pours. >> exactly and let's take a lock and obvious from satellite pictures from two disks and are not well formed and curious the one that will develop in a typhoon is this mess to the far right of your screen. and this is going to hit more people i suspect and on its way out. it's a bit of a massive cloud and the center and it looks like it should be further south but nevertheless it is norths quickly at northwest at 13 kilometers an hour. it's not a big form and was forecast to reach typhoon and it no longer is and it's very marginal but that is where it's going to be. tropical storm 85 kilometers per hour and gusting 100, at the worst it will get a bit stronger and 1 # 00 or 130 that is progress in the next few days and it is about six weeks ago and clipped this part of lozon making rain a problem but i don't think the winds will be a big problem and it's attempt to shelter people of the worry of winds and the rain of course gets funnel

northern albania. charles stratford has the story now from moscow. >> 25-year-old connie liu is on holiday in moscow. she's here in moscow and loving it. >> i can feel different cultures are here. different from chinait's really different from china. >> it's the height of the tourist season. but there is no longer the mix of foreigners here that used to be. the russian foreign ministry say that comparatively future westerners are coming to russia. the chinese became the largest group of foreigners to visit russia. more than a million people from china visited russia last year, and almost half of them were tourists here on holiday. this particular group are spending their last day in moscow. and they come here to see some of the soviet architecture and memorabilia. the women pose for foe photos in front of the monument depicting the former soviet states. with fewer westerners coming the russian tourism industry is now focusing on attracting more visitors from arab and china in picker. chinese visitors don't need a visa. they stay at one of 15 hotels 15 hotels that cater to chinese tourists. >> all chinese tourists are demanding free slippers. we have two tv channels and information in chinese and en

china? . here's your cnbc news update. police arresting a tunisian and is a pakistani on suspicion they were plotting attacks in italy. the men were arrested in the northernruscia, that has a u.s. military presence. >>> 32 people were killed in bomb attacks across baghdad yesterday. the deadliest took place when a car bomb packed with explosives detonated in the shiite district. no one took responsibility. >>> ikea is offering a free wall-anchoring kit for about 27 million chests and drawers after two children died when the furniture tipped over and fell object to them. neither chest had been secured to the wall. the company has received 14 other tip-over incidents resulting in four injuries. >>> nasa has released an extraordinary photo of earth that was taken from more than a million miles away. it shows the earth brightly lit up by the sun. nasa says the purpose of the photo is to show the effects of sunlight scattered by air molecules. i think it's pretty awesome. that's our news update for this hour. back to "squawk alley." >>> shares of apple still slipping this morning, responsible for the lion's share of decline in the dow there was a bright spot i

northern syria for refugees and western-backed rebels with u.s. and turkish war planes protecting that zone. >>> and there are new concerns on wall street after stocks tanked in chinadropping by 8%. the worst one-day drop in nearly a decade. investors are doubting china's latest moves to prevent a full-blown crash. >>> frightening moments on this plane trying to land in europe. heavy winds rocking this plane. the plane tilted dangerously close to the ground just before touching down safely. the landing turned out to be all right. >>> a wild crash at this motorcycle race overseas. the bike's throttle got stuck, throwing driver casey stoner into the air after hitting a barrier. he broke his leg and shoulder but seems to be in good spirits, posting this picture from the hospital. good for him. >>> and finally, baseball fan goes to the angels game to cheer on his favorite player, mike trout. he carries a fish net. appropriately labeled the trout net. and takes his seat in right field. then this happens, mike trout hits a grand slam. i bet you know where this is going because it wouldn't be in my news cast if it didn't. >> no. >> it landed in the trout net. he showed it

china is not broken. shoulding an ingbe an interesting it read. >>> wildfires continue to rage out west. more than 300 firefighters in northern california trying to get a handle on a fast-growing wildfire. burning in lake county. look at that. heavy brush and rugged terrain making the job tougher for those folks. approximately 500 people have been forced from their homes. from coast to coast, the hot weather is not letting up. here is the weather channel's maria la rosa. >>> we're following two big weather stories in the northeast. we start with the heat as we see this warmth surge across the mid-atlantic and the northeast. that's not just the heat but the humidity as well. you can see an area that's 5 to 15 degrees above average but this time of year that does get you back up into the 90s not to mention the humidity. both of those are coming down eventually. the humidity definitely first here. as we get into new york tomorrow and in through the weekend, yes, temperatures into the low 90s. but without that humidity it is going to actually feel a little bit cooler than last few days. that's good news. but it is also coming alo