they exchange students, they exchange officials, military and party officials, they engage in economic activities as well. i mean, obviously, it's a bad time, bad happening for north korea. as you said, north korea's trying to engage in dialogue and at the same time it confirms their rogue image. you know, transporting and spreading weapons. but however, if you look at what they have found now is that really old, obsolete defensive weapon owned by cuban government. cuban government, that's argued, trying to send these weapons for repair. and from north korean perspective, a nice cash cow engagement activities. >> that was a professor in seoul. an expert that has been following, observing north korea for years. >>> officials in south korea are becoming increasingly concerned about growing tensions on the korean peninsula. with this in mind, they've asked the united states to postpone a plan to transfer wartime operational control of military forces to the south. south korea and the u.s. had agreed to transfer the operational power currently held by their combined forces command to the s

rescue officials say some passengers may be trapped inside the train. >>> officials at london's heathrow airport have reopened all their runways after closing them for an hour and a half. a boeing 787 dreamliner belonging to ethiopian airlines caught fire on the ground. heathrow's spokespeople say the plane was at a remote parking stand. no passengers were on board. the company has dispatched staff to investigate. all 787 dreamliners were grounded in january because of battery defects. u.s. federal officials allowed them to start flying again in april. >>> people in southern china are taking to the streets to oppose the construction of a nuclear facility. more than 1,000 people marched in a city to ask authorities to suspend the project. protesters gathered in front of the government office. city officials announced on july 3rd their intention to build a facility to process nuclear fuel about 30 kilometers from the city center. they say the plant will be used to process uranium and produce nuclear fuel. >> translator: such a facility would affect not just the environment but also future

tepco officials say they can't explain the sudden jump. they also are unsure how the cesium is affecting the ocean. workers have detected increasing amounts of radioactive substances in sea water near the plant since may. a sample taken last week contained the highest concentration of radactive tritium recorded in more than two years. >>> politicians in japan have been crisscrossing the nation selling their platforms ahead of this month's upper house election. for voters, it's a chance to weigh-in on prime minister shinzo abe's first six months in office. abe is trying to consolidate his power. he and his liberal democratic party control the lower house, but opposition parties hold the majority of seats in the upper house. and that's created a divided diet where passing legislation can be tricky. in the days leading up to when japan decides, we'll will booking at some of the key campaign issues and hearing from voters about what matters to them. candidates from these nine parties are running in the election. these groups qualified for poli

officials say 37 people have died. storms are lashing sichuan and hunan province, inner mongolia and the capital of beijing. the state-run xin hewn news agency reports 18 people are confirmed dead after a landslide in dujiangyan city in sichuan province. searchers are looking for 100 people. the rain could get heavier on friday. >>> weather experts from around the world are in japan to work on new predictions. they're hoping new technology can limit the impact of extreme climate conditions. officials from 18 institutions in the u.s., russia and europe have conveneded this week near tokyo. they're talking about improving satellite observations of weather phenomena. it could help minimize damage. japanese developers have created a next-generation satellite. they plan to launch it next year. the developers say it can track typhoons and take detailed readings every 30 seconds. >> translator: the satellite could be very helpful in monitoring the environment as well as giving better meteorological data on disasters. with tec

officials. and a criminal probe for an ex-president egypt's former leader is investigated for allegedly spying killing and wrecking the economy even as his bond has continued to protect protests for his return. the latest news on the week's top stories we're watching the weekly here on ars he was an e.u. dash hello and welcome to the program. more than three weeks after arriving the world finally got signed of n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden this week when he suffers from his hideout in a moscow airport transit sewed him out human rights activists. and ask for their help in requesting temporary political asylum here in washington and let's now get all the details from. who has been closely watching the snowden saga high that arena nice to see you so how can we had any official official reaction from russia regarding mr snowden's asylum well we do know that russia has immigration officials say they have not received snowden's official requests for asylum you have to understand though that sno

and so the official campaign is now underway. prime minister shinzo abe wants to wrestle control of the chamber away from the opposition and break a political deadlock in the diet. this will be the first national vote since abe and his ruling liberal democratic party took power last december. >> translator: we, the coalition government, unfortunately do not have the majority in the upper house. since the diet is divided, reconstruction efforts in northeastern japan are not up to speed. economic recovery is also not up to speed. reform is not proceeding. i want this division to be fixed. your power helped change politics in last year's general election. the economy also changed. so, please, give us a strong mandate again in this upper house election. >> the leaders of the main opposition democratic party are fighting to keep control of the upper house. >> translator: six months have passed since the abe government came into power. now, i want all of you to stop and think if your lives have become better. the abe government has des

the official campaign begins thursday. prime minister shinzo abe's trying to break a political deadlock in the diet by wresting control of the chamber away from the opposition. 121 of the o 242 seats in the upper house will be at stake in the vote. 73 seats are allocated to constituencies nationwide. and 48 are assigned to a proportional representation system. a survey suggests that 430 candidates are expected to run. this will be the first national vote since prime minister abe took office last december. they control the house along with their coalition partner new komeito. they need the upper house to push forward their agenda known as abenomics. they'll consider whether to hand him more power so he can move ahead with his plans to amend the constitution. energy policy will also be on top of people's minds. japanese have been talking about it since the 2011 nuclear accident in fukushima. now, the official campaign for the upper house election will last 17 days. "newsline" will bring you extensive coverage leading up to t

official says cyber security is a key item on the agenda. u.s. leaders are concerned by the theft of trade secrets and intellectual property. chinese officials are expected to make use of snowden's allegations and ask the u.s. to explain its own cyber attacks. >>> japan's defense officials have been monitoring chinese ships and they're concerned by what they see. china has ramped up its native activities in the senkaku islands in the east china sea. a wide paper on defense policy says chinese ships have repeatedly entered japanese waters around the islands. the report says some ships behaved so dangerously,caused e. maritime activities a threat to the region and the international community. defense officials are also worried about developments in north korea. the report says the north has made substantial progress in its program to develop ballistic missiles. the missiles could potentially reach the u.s. west coast and the central states. >>> now he's setting his sights on amending the constitution. his party must make a strong showing in the upp

or city officials regarding pending decisions. when we moved the lobbyists' program on-line, we changed the focus from entities to individuals. and as part that have discussion, the capturing of expenditure lobbyists was essentially deleted from our process. and it is not the action in the course of the year, there were a total of eight in the last four years. nonetheless, this is people spending the money to influence the governmental decisions so we don't have legislation drafted yet, but we have a basis for what we think the commission might like to do, and after this sort of reporting. and so this recommendation is because that they do not really shoot well into the existing lobbyist reporting program and we will create a new program outside of the electronic system and basic simple reporting and they are reported to us and reported on-line. and but we wanted to make sure that this is the direction that is acceptable to the commission before we drafted the legislation that has to go through the board. >> commissioners how do y

they say they eavesdropped on meetings on eu officials. they cited a secret document leaked by snowden. the article said nsa workers hacked into computer networks to intercept documents and e-mails. eu leaders responded with strong words. >> i was shocked in the case. if it is true, as a european representative of the institution like a representative of an enemy. >> reporter: the report also describes a u.s. spying program in germany. it says the operation is as comprehensive as the ones in china and iraq. u.s. agents monitored about 500 phone calls and e-mails every month. german prosecutors have launched an investigation. the document leaked by snowden also points to spying on other u.s. allies. a report in the british newspaper "the guardian," said the u.s. had surveillance systems in 38 embassies and diplomatic offices in washington and new york. that includes france, mexico, south korea and japan. japan's chief cabinet secretary said his government will ask the u.s. to confirm whether the report is true or not. >> translator: we are

aviation officials say a boeing 777 jet crashed as it was landing. the plane belongs to asiana airlines. cnn says it flew from inchang international airport. no casualties have been confirmed. >>> islamic militants have attacked a boarding school in northeastern nigeria, killing at least 27 students and one teacher. no group has so far claimed responsibility but local police blamed the violence on bokoharam, based in northeastern nigeria. just before dawn on saturday, a group of gunmen broke into the boarding is it school in the state of yobe. it's the latest in a series of attack. they set fire also to school buildings. the group is also suspected of being response for a series of attacks against government offices and abductions of foreign nationals. you see the nigerian government declared a state of emergency in may for three northeastern states club yobe, and launched military operations against the militant group. >>> clashes in egypt between supporters and opponents of ousted president mohamed morsi have left 30 people dead. a top muslim broth

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officials because they say the u.s. military has tried to downplay the hunger strike from the very beginning the very beginning which is dated back more than five months ago now the protest at guantanamo has continued to raise awareness in the u. . yes and throughout the world and it has forced us president barack obama two were new his out parts to close the island prison for one hundred sixty six men are still languishing in the hunger strike as a protest against indefinite detention without charge and the treatment they've been receiving us public defender calls want to represent eleven all those prisoners and he expects the hunger strike to continue until those inmates cleared for release. the president has the power to released eighty six men right now and we've heard noises that he intends to do so but we've seen no action since that speech and i believe you're still going to have a number of hunger strikers until we see people transferred that's just the bottom line hopefully the military has started to engage th

officials from the u.s., russia and europe convened near tokyo. they are talking about improving observations of weather phenomena and predicting heat waves and extreme storms could mininize development. developers created a next generation satellite. they plan to launch it next year. the developers say it can track ty fans and take readings every 30 seconds. >> translator: the satellite could be very helpful in monitoring the environment as well as giving better meteorological data on disasters on cooperation, we can use this next generation satellite. >> the participants conclude their suddenly meeting on friday. >>> more than 100 illustrators from around the world teamed up if are an exhibition for important memories. the show from hand to hand was inspired by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. >> an exhibition featuring work from the book is currently running in tokyo. it features the art of 110 contributors from hand to hand from seven countries. the artists were asked to think about the future and the context of the earthquake, tsunami and nuc

and chinese officials met in washington last week. they agreed to hold talks on human rights later this month. >>> time now to check on the weather around the globe. there's heavy rain over the korean peninsula and our meteorologist joins us now with the latest. >> it's in the middle of the rainy season for much of the korean peninsula and parts of northern china. we have an active seasonal frontal system here. and north korea and north china are receiving the worst of it at this moment. we have 150 millimeters of rain in parts of north korea and heavy rain for northeastern china as well. thunderstorms and gusty winds are likely throughout the day. we're expecting heavy rain of about 200 millimeters for north korea. rain is expected to come back to the northern area starting this afternoon. some stormy weather will affect northern japan as we go into late wednesday and that will continue into thursday. this area was hit by excessive amounts of rain last week. so additional rain is not welcomed. now across the west, remnants of what wa

officials at japan's nuclear regulator are also angry at tepco. they say the utility was too slow to react to the problem. highly radioactive substances have been detected in the plant's monitoring wells near the pacific ocean since may. tepco reached the conclusion that tainted water is leaking into the ocean after analyzing the fluctuation in water levels in the wells and also comparing them with tide levels. the nuclear regulation authority says the utility took too long to act. >> translator: it's extremely regrettable that tepco was slow in announcing this problem. >> the regulator plans to study ways to locate and stop the leak. workers at fukushima daiichi struggle every day to keep radioactive water from leaking into the environment. nhk world's susumo explains what they're up against. >> reporter: engineers at fukushima daiichi need to keep nuclear fuel inside three damaged reactors cool to avoid another crisis. they pump water into every unit, every day. it becomes highly contaminated after being exposed to the fuel. adding to that probl

he took part in an official practice session before the yokozuna official. yokozuna grand champion chosen as his opponent. that just drove encouragement from the man at the very top helped sokokurai understand he was back where he belongs. how was stepping back into the ring after two years? >> translator: i realized how much i missed being there. i was overjoyed. >> reporter: his stable master says sokokurai's tribulations may turn him into an even more formidable force in the ring. >> translator: he appears stronger mentally. he's like my son. i admire him for having endured so well. >> translator: the only way to move forward is to endure whatever you have to. i would never say i'll be yokozuna tomorrow, but if i do my utmost, i believe the chance will come again my way. >> reporter: sokokurai's real fight to success starts here this sunday with all eyes on him. hiro morita, nhk world. >>> it's going to be hot over the weekend here in japan. meteorologist robert speta with more on that. robert. >> we are watching the heat set in due to the rainy season fr

north korean officials have called on the panama officials to release the crew members without delay. ob everybody servers say north korea will file against the charges. >>> supporters and opponents of morsi are in a stand-off raising fears of confrontation. both camps called for nationwide demonstrations to coincide with friday prayers. morsi's power base the muslim brotherhood refuses to recognize the interim government that was sworn in on tuesday. they continue sit-ins and rallies to press for his reinstatement. interim president adly mansour said in a televised speech that his government is committed to restoring security and will fight to achieve it. earlier in the week the european union foreign policy chief catherine ashton visited egypt. she urged both sides to open dialogue. but there are no signs a compromise can be reached since the brotherhood doesn't accept the interim authorities. on monday and tuesday, morsi supporters clashed with his opponents and government security forces. seven people were killed and more than 250 were injured. >>> the u.s. president has urged the

officials have announced they will not approve an obligation for the project. more than 1,000 people rallied against the plan on friday in front of the local government office. earlier this month, the authorities announced that a state run corporation would build a nuclear fuel processing facility, about 30 kilometers from the city center. the protesters said an accident at the facility could lead to widespread radioactive contamination. >>> supporters of egyptian president mohammed morsi held a mass demonstration in cairo on friday demanding his rain stateme statement. the muslim brotherhood organized a rally on the first friday of the muslim holy month of ramadan. many people gathered near the presidential palace holding morsi posters and national flags. >> i am here to be against unfairness. morsi was chosen in an election. people selected morsi as president by themselves. >> morsi was removed from his post in a virtual coup on july 3rd. police have seen members of the muslim brotherhood. they appear set to continue their protests. a cabinet adviser has caut

daily speech given by some high level official or corporate official government official. that all the men will go down in here so it's considered as private it's off the record there's no press allowed they're not they're not public speeches so it's considered for a cutting edge of whatever the topic is and what makes the bohemian grove different really than any other mean think tank or gathering of the minds. by the club as is mostly for fun in partying in that sense you know whether you're going to build a burger group or the dagoes there if you're there officially to have a good time and that part of that is intellectual discussions conversations with people from all over the world and then formal lectures and discussions on alesi and international affairs and syrian people a little bit loose and hard in for a long periods of time getting close and personal with these people peter and of course a lot of things come out of that in a personal setting with a lot of these people what we know that has come out of the grove policy wise. well . nothing officially i mean but t

. >>> senior officials from the u.s. and china have sat down around a table in washington and gone through the necessities of diplomatic protocol. but when they got to business, they had to put some of that diplomacy aside. they find themselves at odds over cyber security and competing economic interests. delegates are taking part in the annual u.s./china strategic and economic dialogue. u.s. treasury secretary jack lew called on chinese leaders to do more to tighten cyber security. >> those who participate in the global economy including innovators and the holders of inte lengt wal property are preserved and protected from government sponsored cyber intrusion. >> u.s. vice president joe biden said chinese leaders should play a more responsible role in world affairs. china's vice premier said they would never undermine their national interests. >> translator: misunderstandings an differences of opinion are causing friction in the economic interests of both countries. we use die tlog minimize conflicts and avoid turning e

they said it is in the context when the public officials, the elected officials, the appointed officials, have declined, have declined to defend a statute. a statute that, by the way, excuse me, in this case a constitutional amendment, was brought forward by the initiative process. the court said it is essential to the integrity, integrity of the initiative process in that state, which is a precious right of every citizen, the initiative process in that state, to ensure that when public officials -- and after all, the initiative process is designed to control effectively veto an initiative by refusing to appeal it, then the initiative process would be invalidated. >> that's -- historically, i think, 40 states, many states have what was called a public action. a public action is an action by any citizen primarily to vindicate the interest in seeing that the law is enforced. now, that's the kind of action i think that this court has interpreted the constitution of the united states, case in controversy, to say that it does not lie in the federal system. and of course, if that kind of actio

official revealed the americans criticize the chinese for hacking into u.s. government and private sector computers. he said they demanded chinese leaders take action to stop electronic theft for commercial gain. it's unclear how the chinese delegates responded. chinese officials are thought to have raised their own concerns over the alleged hacking over computers in china by american agents. former u.s. intelligence contractor edward snowden raised those claims last month. the delegates agreed to hold a working level meeting on the issue later this year. u.s. and chinese representatives were of the same mind on north korea. delegates agreed their countries should work together towards the denuclearization of the korean peninsula and confirmed the need to fully implement u.n. security council resolutions targeting the north's leaders. they held a special session on global warming too. delegates agreed to cooperate on five areas including cutting exhaust from vehicles, cutting greenhouse emissions and developing power grids using information technology. the tw

officials have privately officials have urged president morsi to call early elections. >> to alleviateny concerns or assumptions we have not taken sides. we are not on any side. the president communicated that the secretary communicated that and i don't think it could be any more clear. >> the president and secretary of state faced criticism when they authorized the continuation of $1.3 billion in aid and foreign military sales each year. mostly m 1 abrams tanks and fighter jets after president morsi and muslim brotherhood won egypt's elections and began taking anti-democratic steps that many fear wood lead to islamic rule. now it seems that aid may have helped. >> the aid is definitely a good thing. >> this military is unified. it's in one place it hag it has not been -- very minute in this stage. the military is not having support from outside world no lefertion from the townhouse keep everything in check. probably the military would have been in a whole different situation right now. >> u.s. law requires the state department to freeze military aid to a country if it's military engen

doctors at the london hospital signed the official announcement. and it was displayed in the court of buckingham palace. prince william is on vacation from the royal air force and he'll now start a short paternity leave. prime minister david cameron spoke shortly after the news of the birth was announced. >> it's wonder news from st. mary's, and i'm sure across the country and common wealth, people will be wishing the couple well. >> william narried kate inform april 2011. well wishers packed some of the streets in london. some shared messages for the new parents. >> congratulations on the newborn son. i hope he turns out to be as much of a success as you two have been. >> i wish the baby lots of health and happiness. i think the whole country is quite happy about it. well done to them. >> congratulations. i hope you are all well. we are all really excited and can't wait to see it. >> now, they are waiting to catch a first glimpse. >>> search and rescue crews are looking for people who went missing after an earthquake in northwestern china. it stru

officials. today lawyers have pledged support for edward snowden's application for refuge in russia following his meeting with russian. human rights activists. holed up for the past three weeks let's get details now from a correspondent. he expressed his gratitude to the countries that have suggested they would take him in these include the likes of venezuela bolivia and nicaragua but it's becoming apparent that it's increasingly difficult for him to get to these countries not only because of a lack of paperwork but also because of america's aggressive pursuit of him which led to the grounding of the bolivian president's plane over european aspace of course last week and edward snowden says that such the such an aggressive pursuit is not just in danger in his life but also the lives and liberties of other people as well which is why he's got these human rights groups and lawyers involved in it also because of the difficulty in traveling is why he's got russia involved as well applying for politi

an official says about 300 workers were hurrying to remove the oil. navy vessels have joined the cleanup operation. they say that oil spill management experts have arrived from singapore. about 5,000 liters still need to be cleared. in 2009, a ptt affiliate company was involved in australia's worst off shore drilling accident spilling thousands of gallons of crude oil into the timor sea. >>> 130 people in taiwan have reported skin problems after using skin whitening products made by japan's kanebo cosmetics. kanebo has been recalling its skin whitener since early this month. the complaints came from commerce who said they developed white blotches after using the firm's products. a sales agent reports that customers are now receiving medical treatment. the agent says it has recalled about 60,000 of the products but several tens of thousands haven't yet been returned. it's calling on customers to stop using the products. >> translator: consumers in taiwan have been happy japanese cosmetics because they believe they're safe. we will try to regain their t

in moscow an anonymous russian official told the l a times that n.s.a. leaker edward snowden has now filed for asylum in no fewer than fifteen countries snowden who has been in limbo in the moscow airport since july june twenty third had previously filed for asylum in iceland and ecuador iceland did not reply and ecuador says that he has. to be on ecuadorian soil such as on embassy grounds in order to apply snowden cannot leave the airport since he has no visa to enter russia and no passport to buy a plane ticket out so it would seem as if he is in a catch twenty two however today russian president vladimir putin might have offered the leaker a window of opportunity here's what he said at a press conference this afternoon concerning edward snowden i must repeat myself he is not a russian agent and he is not working for us and we're not working with him he's a free man if he wants to fly somewhere he can do so if you want to stay here there's only one condition he has to stop his work but it's undermining our american colleagues as strange as that may sou

police say he was arguing with an official.ity authorities had confiscated his apartment because he failed to pay his property tax. >> translator: this is very shocking. why did this happen? >> firefighters extinguished the blaze after about one hour. five people were taken to the hospital after inhaling smoke. >>> executives at a power company in western japan have filed applications to restart their reactors. the units must pass stricter safety checks put in place in response to the 2011 accident at the fukushima nuclear plant. officials at kyushu nuclear power company applied to restart two reactors. the officials have raised their estimation of the highest possible tsunami to hit the area around the plant from two to three meters. they say no new levee is needed because the facilities are 11 meters above sea level. the step brought the number of reactors under nra review to 12 at six plants across japan. nra experts are screening the applications to determine if the utilities have taken all necessary steps to ensure the saf

officials have refused to take sides. he said it's in the best interest of the united states to assist in their transition to democracy. residents of a town in canada are demanding answers after a train accident that killed some of their neighbors. the head of the company that operated the oil tanker train said the driver may have failed to properly set the brakes. the cargo train ran more than 70 cars long and rolled away from a station on saturday with no one at the controls. it derailed in the center of the town in quebec that exploded. 15 people have been confirmed dead. about 50 others missing. rail way company officials denied responsibility. the president visited the site on wednesday and acknowledged the possibility of human error. >> the fact that when the air brakes are released on the locomotive, that the train ran away would indicate that the brakes on the balance of the train were not properly applied. >> police are interviewing the train's engineer. he left the train after stopping it on a hill about kilomet