shigeru yokota and his wife sakie spoke to reporters on thursday morning at a hotel near the villa. >> translator: kim has no new information about the fate of our daughter. she said she met with megumi just once. she said her colleague, who was megumi's student, introduced our daughter to kim. >> sakie said kim told her that she had left her own family behind in north korea and has no information on their fate. >> translator: we told each other that we will carry on together and keep our hopes up. she encouraged us by saying megumi must be alive. >> the former convicted spy, who helped blow up a korean air jet in 1987, arrived in japan on tuesday on a plane chartered by the japanese government. kim left the villa for tokyo on thursday morning. later in the day she'll meet the families of other japanese nationals who were abducted by north korea. megumi yokota was abducted by north korean agents 33 years ago, when she was 13. her parents are anxiously waiting for new information about their missing daughter. the picture was taken in 1977, a month before megumi was kidnapped by north k

we're on holiday so let's order the very best saki. later that night. [whispering] whoa! three gorgeous geisha girls come on in. okay. let's start the party. [music] whoa! yeah. hey! [music] [laughter] [singing] in the next room, the samurai was trying write a letter. [music playing in background],iha chi. iha chi! the samurai is calling me. i wonder what is wrong. did you call me? yes,iha chi! i'm sorry. next door being noisy. sorry i will go and tell them to be quiet. very, very sorry. [loud party noises] come on in. excuse me. sorry. can you keep the noise down please? be a little bit quieter. huh? be quiet. look at this. three young men on holiday. three beautiful geishas and all this expensive saki we ordered from you and you tell us to be quiet. actually we don't mind but someone next door complained. someone complained? about us? tell them to come here and complain to our faces. no. no. wait! i understand. they're just jealous. we're here having a good time and they're all alone, right? that's it. they're just jealous. maybe so but actually it's not just an ordinar

i drank too much, saki rice wine last night. was a little tipsy. i don't remember. any way. think can't move. someone is leaning on me so who is it. my cousin. my brother. we've been got by a hunter. hey! my cousin, wake up. no. not a good morning. we've been caught by a hunter. pass the word but be quiet okay. okay. wake up, wake up, wake up. wake up. wake up. wake up. wake up. wake up. wake up. hey! did you wake up? we've been caught by a hunter. right. i got a good plan. just do what i say. at the count of three, you flap your wings as hard as you can. right? 1, 2, 3 - flapping! i can't move. [help me screaming] very good. whoa. i'm going high. very good. wow. what is that. the lake. not the lake. big river. wow. what? many bridges. the bridge is very old. so, don't go plenty more all right. so. this is a real birds eye view. very good. someone is flying like me. i remember his face in my japanese history book. his real name is,foto shim. hi. good to see you. so, many messengers down there. so, they are waiving you. why are they waiving me. to take me. the end of my life.

next is the weather forecast with saki ochi. >>> hi there, and welcome back to your world weather updatew, across east asia china has been seeing a lot of heavy rains falling and there's been all sorts of problems reported. here's a look at some of the latest footage we've got coming out from the country, showing you the situation. this first will be guangdong province coastline, looking at those high waves and very windy weather as typhoon chensu made landfall wednesday. hong kong missed the brunt of the storm system, but definitely heavy rains falling across the city, and conditions did get pretty stormy. meanwhile, central china also has been dealing with lots and lots of rain. flooding has been extremely severe for the past month. it looks like more rain is ongoing and the flooding remains quite critical. now, northern china hasn't been spared either. the north liaoning province picked up some record amount of rainfall, the highest in a decade, in fact, which also triggered some widespread flooding. so overall it's been a pretty messy and serious situation across the country. here's

next is the weather fork with saki ochi. >>> hi there. welcome back to your world weather update for east asia. we're keeping an eye on the south china sea. you can see a cluster of clouds trying to organize a little bit more. this is a tropical storm system. it is heading in a northerly direction, that is. about 20 kilometers per hour. it is expected to slow down in the coming days and possibly strengthen into severe tropical storm system. winds could start picking up a lot more. of course, that's not good news. it's following the path of the storm system just last week too. we're really concerned about the rain as well. in the next three days, we'll watch that really heavy rain impact southeastern china and northern vietnam. we could be seeing heavy rains to come. of course, that follows all the rain we saw last week. a big area of concern here. china will also have to deal with a tropical depression off the central coast here. low pressure system in the north. that all combined will bring a lot more rain to northeastern portions and do

next is the weather forecast with saki ochi. >>> hi there and welcome back to your world weather updatenow in east asia we're keeping an eye on the south china sea. you can see clouds really starting to organize and take clou clouds. we've got a tropical storm system that's continuing to show signs of strengthening. right now speeds have slowed down quite a bit. it is almost stationary. but gradually heading towards the westward direction. so still on that path for southeastern china, aiming for the gulf of tonking, or rather the northern side. gusts are up over 140 kilometers per hour. there are some pretty strong gusts associated with the system. but there's also that rain we're really concerned about. rain already starting to affect areas like the hainan island, parts of guangdong province. but in the coming days we're going to see that really heavy rain area move all the way in toward even northern vietnam. so areas here expecting to pick up a lot more rain in the days to come. not good news as it's already been pretty well saturated here from that previous storm last week. now, chi

three days after that on august ninth the fat man was dropped on august saki a few days later the japanese surrendered and the pacific war was over the action itself of colossal importance but experts say the ability to develop and test became the driver of the arms race the british got it the french got it then the chinese. the indians the pakistanis now the north koreans are tested to us the reason why countries tested over the years has been primarily to develop new and more deadly types of nuclear weapons to demonstrate their power and to send signals to one another signals that even today steer relations and shift the balance of power around the world christine for r t. staying with the new play as this stop dissolve and treaty his father snacks on ratification in the u.s. congress senior figures in the republican party have been speaking out against the deal but josh rogin a writer at foreign policy magazine believes opponents with a political agenda was succeeded in blocking approval by us in the wake. there is broad bipartisan consensus that reducing nuclear weapons is a good thing