right down to the mediterranean so we're looking at widespread rain to occur across scandinavia and also for central and southern portions of europe. particularly heavy and thundery for southern germany through the alpine region and as we pick up that energy and heat from the mediterranean as well it's going to help produce those active thunder clouds over italy and across much of the balkans. dry weather returning to france. it stays dry and good spells of sunshine across the southeast corner of the uk but a little windy over toward the north here, 20 degrees in london today with sunny spells. paris is going to be 21 degrees. vienna coming in at 23 looking much cooler in berlin at 18 degrees but over toward the east stays very hot, 27 in moscow. 30 in kiev. all right. here is your extended forecast now. >>> our lead story this hour the operator of the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant says it has detected high levels of a radioactive substance that tends to accumulate in human bones. tokyo electric power comny made the announcement after analyzing soil samples taken on may 9th

and then more severe storms from scandinavia to the black sea. i think you're going to see the heaviest of the rain in parts of romania as well as southern sweden. here are your temperatures. 26 in kiev. cooling down a little bit. stays very warm across finland and the baltic states. down into athens, 30. paris and london, 19. >>> a renowned garden north of tokyo is going ahead with the annual plum harvest despite being partially damaged in the march 11th earthquake. thousands of trees are expected to bear several tons of fruit. the garden's located in the city of mito. it boasts some 3,000 plum trees of 100 varieties. the harvest began on friday and ends sunday. the fruit is picked now to encourage the trees to blot some more fully next year. about 50 workers using five-meter bamboo poles shook the trees to make them drop on sheaths below. they expect to harvest 6 tons of plums, the same amount next year. >> translator: these plum trees have grown well, despite the quake. we will also do our best, just like the trees have done. >> the march eart

also plenty of precipitation in store for scandinavia. nothing severe, though.nd some light patches of rain will touch central europe as well. but for the most part, central and western europe dry and sunny. it does get a little thundery again towards the eastern mediterranean, the southern end of italy, greece as well. but looking much clearer than yesterday. rome partly cloudy skies today, 26 degrees. plenty of sunshine in vienna, 26. we've got 24 in berlin. and looking mild in paris as well at 24 celsius. all right. i shall leave you with your city-by-city forecast. >>> our lead story this hour -- the operator of the fukushima daiichi nuclear plant will begin to cover the number one reactor building with polyester sheets this month to prevent the dispersal of radioactive substances. reactor buildings one, three and four were severely damaged by explosions and radioactive elements are still being released into the atmosphere. there are fears that heavy rain may hamper the workers' activities and that the rain water may become contaminated with radioactive mate

unfortunately scandinavia is going to be the exception. northern locations will see that front just moving through. sweden and then into finland. by sunday, though, it should be gone. and you'll have much more settled conditions. now, down to the south we've been seeing the thunderstorms ongoing for the best part of the week. these are actually going to be expanding to the west. france, you're certainly seeing showers moving in. one of the reasons for that is of course going to be the heat. 30 degrees in paris tomorrow. 27 in vienna. and 28 in berlin. 26 in stockholm. you can just see that surge of warmth. a little bit cooler in london, though. just 24 for you, but fine conditions. >>> that's our broadcast for this hour on "newsline." we'll be back with more news in half an hour. i'm michio kijima in tokyo. thank you for watching. bye-bye.

across scandinavia unsettled but nothing too severe and out towards the northwest starting off on a sunny note across the british isles and holding on to the dry weather throughout the day but by the evening hours we'll start to see steady rain moving in from the west. 19 degrees in london today, 21 in paris, hotting up to 33 in lisbon and another hot day in athens at 35 degrees. here is your extended forecast now. >>> and that wraps up this edition of "newsline." i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. do stay with us. we'll be back with more of your updates at the top of the next hour. w@x/

bringing bright spells of sunshine, so overall looking very warm and very sunny, all the way from scandinavia down towards spain and portugal. it looks like the west coast of norway will again be subject to wet and windy conditions and down towards the south for the mediterranean, a weak however, a very large low pressure system will continue to hover the region so that's going to be bringing unsettled conditions again, light to moderate thundershowers occurring widely across the balkans, italy through to southeastern spain. heavy rain particularly for places like northern italy, into the alpine region. 24 degrees in vienna, looking at a risk of thunderstorms here. 25 in rome, looking thundery, good spells of sunshine, very warm, 29 degrees in paris and then 25 in berlin. all right, here is your extended forecast now. >>> our lead story this hour, prime minister naoto kan said on thursday that he will step down after prospects for rebuilding the disaster-hit areas and stabilizing the fukushima nuclear power plant become clear. however, opposition party leaders and even some ruling party membe

we'll talk about thundershowers widespread across parts of continental europe and scandinavia.he british isles another low will continue to stay in place and bring on showers mostly to scotland as well as ireland. and the heat hangs on out towards eastern europe, too. gets up to 30 degrees in war saw as well as kiev and still pretty warm in vienna as well. here is your three-day outlook. ♪ >>> our lead story this hour, the japanese government's nuclear safety agency has instructed utility companies across the country to come up with measures to better respond to a serious nuclear accident. the government has already compiled a report for the international atomic energy agency about the nuclear accident at fukushima daiichi. it says the plant's lacked sufficient safety measures to deal with a serious accident that caused the loss of all power sources. the nuclear and industrial safety agency asked utility firms to prepare portable lights and communication equipment as well as generator trucks. these vehicles would be used for emergency ventilation to keep radiation below certain

activists from scandinavia who are part of the folks who are hoping to make its way to gaza say their ship has been found and tossed the vessels propeller will support a big cut off dock that a report and will take a couple of days to prepare meanwhile israel warns it would prevent any attempt to breach at sea blockade of the palestinian territory a year ago a similar mission led to the deadly raid by israeli commandos in which nine activists were killed. the international monetary fund is preparing to name its next boss with christine lagarde expected to win the vote french finance minister would be the first woman to leave the organization if she manages to beat her opponent for us central banker from mexico the new i am and had to replace the many stars khan who resigned last month over sexual assault charges. now a drive by the russian government to raise the birth rate has led to lawmakers proposing a bill limiting a pregnant woman's options over abortion by just later say they want to reduce the huge number of terminated pregnancies but there's criticism that the measures will d

coli keeps spreading north to scandinavia and south to spain. >> it seems to be transmitted through food but not by contact to other people. simple precautions like hand washing and not preparing food for people when you're sick should prevent ichb fex frnfect one to the oh. >> it's bacteria in all of us. some can cause poisoning. kidney failure is under this but the strain is attacking kidneys at a rate that is startling scientists and crippling farmers. several banned spanish cucumbers though spain has insisted the farms are not to blame. russia is one of the biggest markets and now it's banning all fresh veg valuable imports from the entire european union. the losses are calculated in the hundreds of millions of dollars and, of course, in lives as well. jonathan mann, cnn. >>> the european union is the largest exporter of food stuffs so the union is likely to be a problem. russia banned all vegetables from the eu. it could cause problems that imports 90% of its greens. the import of cucumbers is low, 11% of thoomatoes and 5% of cucumbers come from europe. meanwhile, austria has sent i

like singapore aren't the only nations with an eye toward innovation, kao says, pointing also to scandinavia. >> finland has a strategy, a fabric of financiers of innovation, both private and public sector. they have an innovation manager for the city of helsinki. it's at the met toll tan level as well. in sweden, if you want to know who runs innovation in sweden, you look in the phone book and there's a vinnova and a person's name as director and you can call them up and say, i yes, have i 300 people at vinnova and we weave together a national narrative for innovation. i'm sorry to say that at the moment in the u.s. government, you try find the name of the person who's responsible for innovation, there's no name and no phone number. >> our government's lack of coordination on innovation has caused us to shoot ourselves in the foot. america missed out on growing some cutting edge industries, says eric schmidt, industries that we actually invented in the first place. case in point, solar power. the technology was invented in america but the chinese government spent lots of money to subsidize

full of examples of small, mid size, even large governments that have done well such as those in scandinaviabut one thing we know for sure is there's no country history of successful development without good government and broadly understood. the government that is fair, open, reasonably efficient. the and so that's a huge chalnge r us. >> charlie: to make sure you have good government. >> make sure we have good government. >> charlie: it's interesting to me but in a number of countries, you can look at their rise at the emerging power, emerging economic power. and before the political reality happened, there was a finances minier who was turning things around, and you're given some credit for making those kinds of, having that kind of impact. >> it'snteresting how each country clicks. >> charlie: right. >> i don't think we know exactly how to build a theory around that but you do need that. you do need the, there needs to be a window of opportunity at a certain point in time where things go. >> charlie: you have to have somebody articulating. >> exactly. i think for us it was president card

why is green technology being lead by scanned -- scandinavia and asia. >> charlie: let me open that up to everybody. the idea of the obama leadership as david said has no acted boldly where he might have wanted him to act. >> my own sense is that we're not supposed to say who we ved for as congressmen so don't tell anybody. but the reason i'm suspected to have voted for barack obama is, i went to obama for one reason because i thought he could change the polls and not read the polls. i thought he was someone because of his his or tore cull skillsd the way my colleagues talked here to actually change the polls. mying biggest disappoint i see the guy reading the polls as closely as ever. roger referred to energy. let's look at the last year charlie, you and i talk board of director this before. climate change. those two words climate change became a four letter word in american politics under barack obama's watch. it's against the lawn the republican party. mitt romney was just so courageous, he actually saidhe believes in science, oh god. and rush limbaugh said you're out of the party,

if england and france and italy and germany and spain and the netherlands and scandinavia can't together muster the military force for this weakened poor nation, then let's re-examine the value of this ally. there was in the "king and i" when he says, if the allies are weak might not -- it's time for them to step up. this is not to protect gaddafi. it's to say that america can no longer be asked to be the one that does everythi, everywhere, every time our allies have to step up. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from washington. mr. smith: thank you, mr. speaker. i now yield two minutes to the gentleman from texas, mr. paul. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for two minutes. mr. paul: i thank the gentleman for yielding. i really speak on the house floor -- rarely speak on the house floor and almost never have i come to the floor two times in one day to speak on one issue. but this is my fourth trip to the floor today on this issue because i consider it so important and so serious. if i could rename this bill i would cal

if england and france and italy and germany and spain and the netherlands and scandinavia can't together muster the military force for this weakened poor nation, then let's re-examine the value of this ally. there was in the "king and i" when he says, if the allies are weak might not -- it's time for them to step up. this is not to protect gaddafi. it's to say that america can no longer be asked to be the one that does everything, everywhere, every time our allies have to step up. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from washington. mr. smith: thank you, mr. speaker. i now yield two minutes to the gentleman from texas, mr. paul. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for two minutes. mr. paul: i thank the gentleman for yielding. i really speak on the house floor -- rarely speak on the house floor and almost never have i come to the floor two times in one day to speak on one issue. but this is my fourth trip to the floor today on this issue because i consider it so important and so serious. if i could rename this bill i would c

if england and france and italy and germany and spain and the netherlands and scandinavia can't togetherlitary force for this weakened poor nation, then let's re-examine the value of this ally. there was in the "king and i" when he says, if the allies are weak might not -- it's time for them to step up. this is not to protect gaddafi. it's to say that america can no longer be asked to be the one that does everything, everywhere, every time our allies have to step up. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from washington. mr. smith: thank y, mr. speaker. i now yield two minutes to the gentleman from texas, mr. paul. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for two minutes. mr. paul: i thank the gentleman for yielding. i really speak on the house floor -- rarely speak on the house floor and almost never have i come to the floor two times in one day to speak on one issue. but this is my fourth trip to the floor today on this issue because i consider it so important and so serious. if i could rename this bill i would call it a bill to

if england and france and italy and germany and spain and the netherlands and scandinavia can't together muster the military force for this weakened poor nation, then let's re-examine the value of this ally. there was in the "king and i" when he says, if the allies are weak might not -- it's time for them to step up. this is not to protect gaddafi. it's to say that america can no longer be asked to be the one that does everything, everywhere, every time our allies have to step up. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from washington. mr. smith: thank you, mr. speaker. i now yield two minutes to the gentleman from texas, mr. paul. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for two minutes. mr. paul: i thank the gentleman for yielding. i really speak on the house floor -- rarely speak on the house floor and almost never have i come to the floor two times in one day to speak on one issue. but this is my fourth trip to the floor today on this issue because i consider it so important and so serious. if i could rename this bill i would c