i'm patchari raksawong in bangkok. >>> and now let's take a look at the latest in sumo action with hiro morita. >> after nine days at the autumn sumo tournament, yokozuna hakuho held sole position of the lead with nine wins. see if he was able to keep his undefeated streak going on day ten. nobody has gotten in the way of has cue woe during the first nine days. he has been rock solid. hakuho gets a firm grip and goes forward while breaking tokitenko's balance. hakuho escorts the rank and filer out of the ring and goes to 10-0. >>> a highlight match on day ten was the bout between the two sekiwake. kotoshogiku and cois enis akosenosato both entered at one loss each. he didn't show any letdown and bounced back with a victory the following day. kosenosato lost for the first time on monday. he has to rebound and keep fighting strong if he wants to keep himself in contention. they expected a much more fierce battle from the two but he handled and showed why he is the legitimate ozeki candidate. >>> the other rikishi whose been keeping himself in the race is gagamaru, the georgian, put togeth

i'm patchari raksawong in bangkok. >>> and now let's take a look at the market figures. >>> welcome back to your weather uptate. we are getting a look at the weather across asia and we are still talking about a lot of tropical activity in the southeast, the clouds from bun heading into the gulf of tonqing. let's look at tropical storm nesat made landfall along the northern end of hainan island. by tonight expected to move into towards the northern end of vietnam and lose a lot of the strong winds by saturday morning, but for the course of friday, this section of southern china, hainan island, northern vietnam will want to brace for some pretty strong winds. now rainfall, too, will still be pretty heavy in some areas. localized areas could be looking at upwards of 200 millimeters to fall still, in addition to all the rain that we've already seen in the last 24 hours or so, so you do want to watch out for flood risk and landslide risks. now as we look towards the philippines, too, rainfall accumulation will really start piling up over the next 48 hours and this will be due to our other tro

i'm patchari raksawong in bangkok. >>> and now let's look at the market figures. >>> hi there. welcome to your weather update. let's look at what's happening across japan. typhoon talas is moving close to mainland japan. it has been bringing some widespread heavy rain as well as thunderstorms now. expected to turn stormy today. looks like it's going to be making land here during the overnight hours as a strong typhoon. before it continues to move in a northerly direction towards the sea of japan. it does remain a very large storm system, very strong system. so the results of course could be devastating. it has already been impacting much of fujioka. well over 300 millimeters in portions of the country. 420 in parts of nara as well. rainfall reaching its peak over the next 48 hours. to get a better idea, if we look at the next 24 hours. we're talking up to 200 millimeters in northern portions of the country. down farther we'll see more than that up to 700 millimeters occur in the next 24 hours. so flooding is going to be a big risk in many areas. coastal flooding as well to watc

i'm patchari raksawong in bangkok. >> thanks, patchari. >>> the economy shrank. the japanese government said on friday that the economy declined by an annualized rate of 2 minnesota 1% in the quarter. that's down from the preliminary report of minus 1.3% given in august. the nation's economy posted a third straight quarter of declines. the largest factor was the decrease in cap pal spending as the march 11th disaster dam opinioned corporate sentiment. it came it to be 0.9d% compared to the rating of positive 2 pont 0%. but in the following quarter, economic growth is expected to pick up as quake-related reconstruction will have propped up demand. >>> china's consumer prices in august rose 6.2% from a year ago, easing for the first time in two months. the national bureau of statistics released the data on friday. the pace of advance marked a third straight raise but rose slightly by 0.3 percentage points from july. looking on, food prices continue to show a double-digit rise but fell 1.4 percentage points from the previous month. in particular, the price of pork f

i'm patchari raksawong reporting in bangkok. >>> all right. well, the best women's soccer team on the planet has secured a spot at the 2012 olympic games. nadeshiko has won the chance to compete next summer in london. the team faced north korea for its fourth of five qualifying matches. nagasato's shot put japan on the board in the second half. it ricochetted into the goal. but north korea's kim jorra nailed this one to tie the match. china and australia met in the follow game. australia won 1-0. japan's team faces china on sunday. but it has secured the second highest position in this tournament with a total of ten points. the london games will be their fourth olympic appearance. >>> in tokyo people erupted into loud cheering after hearing the news. >> translator: i'm so happy. nadeshiko is representing japanese women. i want to shine like them. >> translator: i hope they'll become the world's number one again. just like at the world cup. >>> welcome back to your weather update. we're getting a look at the weather in east asia. we're keeping

i'm patchari raksawong in bangkok. >>> now let's take a look at the latest in sumo with ross mihara. >>> it was also stormy in the sumo ring on day 11 of the september tournament. so let's look at the matches involving the leaders. kotoshogiku is having his finest two weeks as he aims for ozeki promotion. but tochiozan is a worthy opponent. kotoshogiku with just a 6-5 edge in this rivalry. he comes out sharper, doesn't give kotoshogiku a chance to go belly to belly because he knows it would favor the sekiwaki. instead he launches an oshiwashi pushout. outstanding for kotoshogiku a critical second defeat. he has to win three of his final four bouts to earn promotion. even more impressive than his nine straight wins, gagamadu has greatly improved his lower body stability. now he's facing an ozeki for the first time. baruto has an 8-2 current record but is in the role of spoiler. the ozeki moves back the heaviest of the heavy, but gagamaru isn't rolling over. the 19 199 kyl gram rallies. he scores the biggest win of his career. hakuho has a perfect 18-0 record against kakuryu. but kakur