one of these news organisations is daily nk, based in seoul. hello. annyeonghaseyo.ang—yong is its editor in chief. i'm sorry we're a bit late. so, what happens to our questions now? well, we will wait as long as it takes. at every step of this process, i sought advice from my most for months, we exchanged hundreds of messages with the sources in north korea, each containing just snippets of information to protect people's identity and keep them safe until, finally, we had enough to put together. when we got our interviews back, we were completely blown away. they were so much more detailed than we had ever imagined. i wake up at 5am and make breakfast for my family. then, i go and prepare my business at the market, where i sell medicine. one of the people we've been communicating with is a market trader who lives up near the border with china, and she makes her living by smuggling medicine over the borderfrom china. her earnings support her family, so her husband and her two children. before covid, life was stable. i didn't smuggle every day but my business made qui

the streets of seoul were lit up with purple lights — the signature colour of bts — to celebrate thisconomy — well, it's well and truly an understatement. they even have a name for it — it's called the bangtan economic effect — and according to hyundai research, it estimates that bts has contributed about $55 billion over the course of this decade to south korea's economy, as well as 8000 jobs. but the future of this economic powerhouse is in doubt. the band, for example, is currently under hiatus. a number of the members are serving military service. there is compulsory conscription in south korea and for a while it was debated whether or not they were indeed going to serve this military service because of this huge contribution that the band makes to south korea's economy. the other question, too, is whether or not they are going to be able to regain their top spot after this break, or they might be replaced by younger models. but without a doubt for the army, as they're called, the legions of bts followers around the world, celebrations are going to continue throughout the week unt

one of these news organisations is daily nk, based in seoul. hello. annyeong haseyo. sang yong is its editor in chief. i'm sorry we're a bit late. so, what happens to our questions now? well, we will wait as long as it takes. at every step of this process, i sought advice from my most until finally we had untilfinally we had enough until finally we had enough to untilfinally we had enough to put together. i wake up at 5am and make breakfast for my family. then i go and prepare my business at the market, where i sell medicine. one of the people we've been communicating with is a market trader who lives up near the border with china, and she makes her living by smuggling medicine over the borderfrom china. her earnings support her family, so her husband and her two children. before covid, life was stable. i didn't smuggle every day. my business made quite a profit. but since covid, my earnings have halved. it's become much harder to smuggle things over the border, and the crackdowns have become stricter. i tried to smuggle, but i got caught. i had to bribe an official w

at this hotel in seoul special pacts are being offered as part of bts fest. let's look into this special purple box and you see bts festa and special key rings, and these are all sealed but these are wineglasses and a t-shirt. the hotel restaurant is offering a special bts menu. there's even a bts cocktail which naturally turns purple. all of this will help the tourism industry that has been pummelled by the pandemic. hotels are nearly fully booked. >> we still have a little bit to sell, but we're pretty confident we'll sell them all. >> reporter: it will be at least two years before bts will be able to perform together again as a band. but even in their absence, they're lighting up the city and a global fan base. nhk world, seoul. >>> and now here's a three-day outlook for weather for selected cities around the globe. >>> and that wraps up this edition of nhk "newsline." i'm raja pradhan in tokyo. coming up next is "newsline biz" with ramin mellegard, so stay right there. >>> this is "newsline biz"mism i'm ramin mellegard. the bank of japan's two day board m

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he staged this performance in milan, toronto and seoul. minsk became the fourth city in the world where there is an opera with well-adjusted italian accents. we found great contact with the artists. the only difficulty was that the italian tradition involves improvisation. artists always try to control how they walk, how they move. i suggested the card to invest in the character of the characters and bring something of their own to the stage. it's made for good. here is a wonderful international history with voices that really differ a lot of them to us. so to speak, we heard them for the first time, but it is already remarkable that some of them, because of the young artists who will perform in performances both today and tomorrow, they have already started their desire to work in the troupe of the bolshoi theater of belarus, so today i already perceive it in general how such an organic phenomenon is the entry into our corpse into our collective. uh, well, what's the evidence? in general its very good condition in every sense. until the w

>> you're watching daybreak asia live from seoul, sydney and hong kong. >> cut it down to asia's major market opens. -- counting down to asia's march -- major market opens. >> antony blinken's beijing billet -- visit has been praised by the president of china and america. >> the two sides have made progress and reached agreements on specific issues. this is very good. >> the global stock rally waivers and investors worry about china's tempered recovery. plus south korea is $169 billion -- there one in $69 billion wealth fund has a wait-and-see message on china. we hear from the kic's new chairman in his first interview. >> we talked about a lot of things, whether it be the uncertainties around china, and the fact that they are taking a step away from public markets and increasing their exposure to alternatives just because of how far we have come in public markets and he actually thinks that for his rally to continue the fed will have to lower interest rates, there a little too high right now, to seek a broad-based rally ahead. if we are looking at some weakness coming through, overnig

our seoul correspondent jean mackenzie�*s exclusive reporting provides a peek at life inside.d supplies are so low, people have started dying. this chilling testimony comes from inside north korea. once, i didn't eat for two days. i only drank water. recently, people have been knocking on the door, asking for food, because they are so hungry. hearing from people inside this isolated country is extremely rare. but with fears the country is on the brink of a famine, we've been secretly communicating with people who live there. we're using actors and animations to illustrate their words, and have changed their names to protect them. in our village, five people have starved to death. chan ho is a construction worker living near the chinese boarder. in one family, the wife was too ill to work, so the two children were surviving by begging. in the end, all three of them died. at first, i was afraid of dying from covid, but then i began to worry about starving to death. at the start of the pandemic, north korea completely sealed its borders. these pictures released by the regime are

a british man has been arrested in the south korean capital, seoul, after trying to scale the world'sore than half way up the lotte world tower before police forced him into a maintenance cradle. the skyscraper is more than five hundred and fifty metres high, with a hundred and twenty floors. local media have reported that the man had intended to parachute off the top. now it's time for a look at the weather with daren bett. hello there. for many parts of the uk it's going to be a dry day with a good deal of sunshine around. the sunniest weather likely to be here in the north—east of england. over the past couple of days we have seen temperatures reaching 32 degrees, 90 fahrenheit. may not be as hot as that today, a little cooler in the south—east and the highest temperature likely to be in cumbria. but with that heat and humidity we have the potential for thundery downpours. hale and lightning, some flooding expected as well, there could be about inch of rain falling in the space of an hour. a few showers towards the east but the main focus of the downpours pushing through the midlan

he staged this performance in milan toronto and seoul minsk became the fourth the cities of the world where there is an opera with well-adjusted italian fathers excellent contact with the artists of the difficulty were only in the fact that the italian tradition involves improvisation by the artists always. control how they walk, how they move. i suggested that each artist invest in the character of the characters and bring something of their own to the stage. it's made for good. this is wonderful, international history with voices that really uh differ. many of them are for us to say this, we heard them for the first time, but it is already remarkable that some of young artists who will perform performances both today and tomorrow. they have already started their desire to work in the corpse of the bolshoi theater of belarus and therefore today i already perceive it in general, as such an organic phenomenon. here is the entry into our pipe into our team. er, well, that's all the action, in general its very good condition in every sense. for the time being , the barber of witnesses wi

i was in seoul, south korea. one part of the speech was what i had seen in the butte -- united nations. the other looked was what i saw about china. i warned about their growing military power. and it's growing challenge to american interests and america itself. i specifically called out its military civil fusion program for the chinese, this party exploits american companies to strengthen its military. i urged our leaders to quote " think about china critically, creatively and courageously." china's police state is more comprehensive. it has destroyed freedom in hong kong. it has deepened as genocide of the uighurs. it's no limits alliance with russia has cemented. and there was covid, despite its ongoing attempts at cover-up, the chinese communist party bears responsibility for the worst worldwide pandemic in a century with up to 20 million deaths. through it, the chinese military has become stronger, testing us like never before. last month, a chinese fighter jet came within 400 feet of an american aircraft fl

seoul's mayor later defended the alert. >> the emergency message good be an overreaction but it was not a mistake. our principal was to respond in a manner that could be seen as excessive and it can be no compromise on safety. amy: the tokyo electric power company is facing mounting opposition over its plans to pump 1.3 million tons of contaminated wastewater from the fukushima nuclear plant into the sea. the water contains dangerous radionuclides from the 2011 meltdown of three reactors at the site, triggered by a massive earthquake and tsunami. this week the u.n.'s international atomic energy agency signed off on the planned release of the waste water by the plant's operator, the tokyo electric power company. the plan has triggered protests in japan and in south korea, where anti-nuclear activists recently staged demonstrations. >> we can't believe the japanese government's plan to release nuclear contaminated water has gone as far as it has. the impact will be enormous. i think south korea and the neighboring countries should work together to postpone a decision on nuclear polluted w

disciplinary committee of the japan football federation has issued the 111th summons to the ambassador of seoul street due to misbehavior and incitement of the spectators in the city . it is not known whether he will reach an agreement with esteghlal for the next season, and if this is the case, it started last year and with the closing of the league matches for a few months , it will probably speed up, and soon some athletes will be translated and ready for operation. the turn of all the stands and the meaning of the stadium will be rebuilt. the whole project will take about three years. iran's young girls dance in vietnam . iran's under-20 women's football today entered hanoi , the capital of vietnam, to participate in the second round of the asian qualifiers. vietnam hosts lebanon at the same time persepolis is a group, football is persepolis, stay with the two of us before we talk as guests of the program, a report on the performance of persepolis in this season , let's win the premier league and the fa cup . persepolis learned a big lesson from last season. their goal is to focus, maybe ma

that was true four years ago when i said as much in seoul. it is more so today. it is time to marshall our strength and national will, we must respond in three ways, domestically, economically and militarily. confronting china starts at home. we must systematically eliminate its interference and infiltration of our society. the situation is worse than most people realize. the communist party has abused our openness in extraordinary ways. it uses economic freedom to threaten our security and food supplies. our academic freedom to confront our students and scholars and the freedom of speech to spread lies and shape our laws. china treats our homeland like its personal playground. in recent years chinese investors have bought nearly 400,000 of acres of land in our country, that is twice the size of new york city. we are not just talking about any old property. china has bought miles of farms near sensitive military facilities, and china has taken a majority control of agricultural industries. this must end. the line between chinese investors and the chinese communis

reporter: souel -- seoul gripped by panic after an attempted spy satellite launch by their northern neighbors i was a little confused by the alert message but not worried because north korea does these sorts of things. i would've hoped the alert message would have been more accurate. if they send another one of the future, it needs to include instructions. >> i understand there may have been a misunderstanding between authorities in emergency situations but it is not right to tell people to evacuate without any explanation. reporter: the mayor defended the decision to issue the warning. >> this emergency message could be seen as an overreaction, but it was not a mistake. we responded in a manner where there can be no compromise on safety. reporter: north korea says they plan to launch another satellite as quickly as possible. some people in south korea might have to get used to more emergency warnings like this one. >> a team of human experts has arrived off the coast of yemen to offload one million barrels of oil from a decaying tanker. the port could break up or explode any day. reporter: a

we saw so many beautiful parts of seoul. >> reporter: and they reunited in-person with six of the peopley helped. >> tears welled up in my eyes. >> reporter: he was on his honeymoon during the december storm. >> i never forget you and always strive to live with a grateful heart. helping others around us even more you truly are angels >> buffalo is known as the city of good neighbors, so we would have helped anybody in need, and we were glad to do it. >> reporter: a reminder to help your neighbors if they live down the block or on the other side of the world jesse kirsch, nbc news >>> there is thank you, and then there is, thank you. that's "nightly news" for this wednesday. thanks for watching. i'm lester holt. please take care of yourself and each other good night >>> i'm raj mathai. next on nbc bay area bay area news tonight, another blow to downtown san francisco. cinemark theaters abruptly closing. it could be the crime and lack of foot traffic. >> i think we have to be honest about the reality that street conditions and public drug u

beijing at 22, seoul at 27, and 20 in shanghai. in the south, looking at instability with rain and thunderstorms expected. plenty of thunderstorms blossoming in the central areas of the united states. a tropical depression in the gulf will move south, not a big deal in terms of the strength of it. denver and oklahoma city and toward the east, highs of 32 in chicago to 34 in washington, d.c., as we wrap up the workweek. that's a look at your forecast. hope you have a good day wherever you are. >>> and that concludes this edit edition nhk "newsline." yum raja pradhan in tokyo. coming up next is "newsline biz" with ramin mellegard, so stay right there. ♪ >>> this is "newsline biz." i'm ramin mellegard. now, east japan rail rays started construction of a new train line that will provide better access to tokyo emphasis haneda airport. now, the project comes as an influx of foreign tourists makes haneda an increasingly important hub. officials held a groundbreaking ceremony for the line on friday. the operator aims for it to start carryi

temperatures in seoul will drop with a chance of severe thunderstorms. in europe a couple of low pressure systems will create unstable weather systems across western europe. vienna and madrid should watch out for severe thunderstorms. temperatures should be in the lower 20s. meanwhile severe weather is expected in paris and berlin. temperatures will be about 10 degrees below usual for this time of year. that's all for now. have a nice weekend. >>> that's all for this edition of nhk "newsline." i'm yoshi ogasawara in tokyo. notwithstandings for watching and do stay with us for more. ♪ >>> this is "newsline biz." i'm gene otani. the operator of a major japanese conveyer belt sushi chain is suing a customer for damages after he posted a prank video on social media. the osaka-based company claims the video hurt its business and share price. they fileed the lawsuit with the osaka district court. it's seeking more than 67 million yen or about $480,000 in damages. the video shows a customer licking a soy sauce bottle in the chain's gifu city restaurant in centr

this year moscow can become the world leader in the number of rental electric scooters, overtaking seoul berlin in this rating , there will be up to 60,000 of them on the streets at the beginning of the season, and scooters in moscow were rented almost 7 million times. i think scooters don't get in the way. this same vehicle depends on the culture of the person who is driving. i believe that they should ride on special tracks. and, of course, speed limit such a traumatic situation in general. i forbade. and so it is there. i think there is someone to solve the accident with electric scooters and the problem is not only for moscow in paris since the fall, their street rental will be banned in london. they can strictly if they have a driver’s license , a complete ban on electric scooters is in effect in canada and chinese shanghai in russia to regulate this method of transportation is only starting from march 1 , new amendments to the rules of the road are in effect for the first time such a concept is defined as a consequence of individual mobility and the speed limit is set to 25 km/h. w

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a british man has been arrested in the south korean capital, seoul, after trying to scale the world'sgh, with 120 floors. local media have reported that the man had intended to parachute off the top. you have been watching newsday on bbc news. stay with us. you can always find out the latest going on in the world. visit our website, bbc .com/ news, or download our app. we will be live in the phillipines in the next hour — it's after around 13,000 people have been forced to leave their homes as the country's most famous volcano, mayon, continued to ooze lava. i'll be speaking to the director of the philippine institute of volcanology and seismology. it started spewing last week, but evacuations only began over the weekend. that's all we have, bye for now. hello there. it was a busy old start to our working week — hot and humid for all of us. in fact, it was the warmest day of the year so far, with some late afternoon sunshine across northern ireland, a hot day across southern scotland and, as you can see, in north wales as well, temperatures in the high 205. northwest england saw a hig

meanwhile, a 20-year-old palestinian named zakaria mohammad zakaria from seoul, who lives in the city of kohoristan in the west, was also shot by the soldiers. the zionist was martyred, the fighters of the palestinian resistance, the military crossing of the goblins belonging to the zionist occupation regime in the northeast of jan, they put us in a safe place . they informed us of the palestinian fighters shooting at the zionist regime soldiers near the erta crossing in nablus. the army of the zionist regime announced in the current battle and saleh rar camp in jenin, the flowers of qatar branch of jenin announced that following the operation against the zionist occupation forces, heavy blows were inflicted on the occupying forces and their equipment, and they suffered casualties and financial losses. to meet the needs of the country's petrochemical industry , the knowledge bases have succeeded in developing a new generation of industrial blowers for the transfer and movement of petrochemical products . industries, but when this simple tool is used in the petrochemical industry, its

now a british man has been arrested in the south korean capital seoul for trying to scale the will�*swow! . and that is all we have for you. state with bbc news, i'm monica miller, thanks for watching. hello there. it was a busy old start to our working week — hot and humid for all of us. in fact, it was the warmest day of the year so far, with some late afternoon sunshine across northern ireland, a hot day across southern scotland and, as you can see, in north wales as well, temperatures in the high 20s. northwest england saw a high of 31 degrees as well. that heat and humidity helped to trigger off some sharp, thundery downpours, and you can see in cheshire, the threatening—looking skies, those thunderstorms that threatened to spoil the parade in manchester. now, we had over a couple of inches of rain in highland scotland from those storms. they were quite widespread with over 7,500 lightning strikes at one point through the middle part of the afternoon. the showers have eased away, but it's still quite a mild start to the day. tuesday morning seeing temperatures into the mid—teens

planet, she performed in seoul 88 as part of our common ussr team and won gold , then took the awardijing 2008 olympics in rio 2016, in general, she played for the same team with her eighteen-year-old son. what was the first case in history to all our viewers, so we wish to keep the desire to be active at any age, because force. she is on the move in history. after all, there was already such a fact, only a man visited all the children at the olympics. but not well, it remains only to get to the olympics and that's it. this is also a record holder, it turns out among women, and then you can also perform in the same team with your grandson. i think. oh well, it's actually a great story. uh, i 'm sure that women can do anything and it seems to me that this time it will be possible to set another record. just the same, to show that a woman can also visit 10 olympics. well, at least to-to this the athlete will be riveted on our attention, because we want to watch her results. thank you for this news. and in general for your sports morning news with which you came to us today. yes, we wis

result, it turned out to be unsuccessful, the fragments of the rocket found the south korean military seoulp the air raid alert. the states also promise new opportunities to the aucus block in the plans of the alliance to flood the pacific ocean, not only with nuclear submarines, which will soon receive canver , but also with a swarm of drones the other day, as the press reports, it became known about the first joint tests of the american british and australian armies, where the military checked the compatibility of drones controlled by artificial intelligence, as shown by the american modeling of the conflict through the dense curtain of chinese air defense, only drones can break through, but only china itself is the leader in the production of drones that are capable of not only conducting close reconnaissance, but also, if necessary , flying to the very american coast, growing power, the prc, the americans call one of their main threats. and while washington is thinking, how else to isolate the peaks over investments and technologies fly skyward the head of the largest bank in the us, ja

lobbying of certain interests for a huge loan in warsaw was given under what she would have to push seoulmmunition market to do advertising to him, as a manufacturer, but the money will still have to be given at the expense of ukrainian zapadentsev. it is most important. the region, which, well, stands, in principle , the main task is directly dudy place leva as they say in lviv cherno ivana frankivsk volyn region. here is a very interesting statement in this context by the head of the ukrainian ministry of foreign affairs kuleba. he seems to be scared until the end of the conflict with armor until the end of the armed conflict on the territory of ukraine, foreign states will not send their troops to the territory of our countries more than that, we do not ask for it. but who will ask them in the ranks of the armed forces and now there are a lot of foreign mercenaries and polish speech. sounds during a counter-offensive that cannot be called successful. and if, after vilnius , warsaw officially leads troops not to the front line, it goes without saying a direct conflict. dudey is not need

now our seoul correspondent jean mackenzie reports on how state crackdowns are making it even harderfortors to protect those who we've been speaking to. this is the world's most tyrannical state. its supreme leader rules by terror. but kim jong—un is tightening his grip, pushing his people to their limits. every day, it gets harder to live. 0ne wrong move and you're facing execution. this is chan ho, one of three north koreans who've risked their lives to tell us what's been happening since the country cut itself off from the world. we've changed their names and illustrated their words using actors and animations. if i live according to the rules, ifeel like i'll starve to death. butjust by trying to survive, i could be arrested by the state security, branded as a traitor and killed. one way to survive north korea is to escape across the border to china, but kimjong—un has begun walling his people in, installing fences and surveillance cameras. guards have been ordered to shoot anyone attempting to cross. myong suk is a market trader living close to the border. the government strictly c

a british man has been arrested in the south korean capital, seoul, after trying to scale the world'sm into a maintenance cradle. the skyscraper is more than 550 metres high, with 120 floors. local media have reported that the man had intended to parachute off the top. goodness me. you have been watching bbc news. plenty more coming up shortly. stay with us. hello there. it's going to be another hot, sunny, humid afternoon but with some big thunderstorms developing as well, as we'll see in a moment. we started off the day, though, with these red skies over redcar and cleveland. over the weekend, the first heatwave of the year has certainly arrived, temperatures peaking at 32.2 degrees celsius on saturday in chertsey. that's the mark to beat. we'll get quite close to that later on this afternoon, with temperatures expected to reach 31 or 32 degrees. the hotspots across parts of northern england and southern scotland. lots of hot and sunny weather around today. a few showers building over the high ground in scotland, a few for western counties of northern ireland. but the biggest storms

this from our seoul correspondentjean mackenzie — and a warning, you may find the report distressing.estimony comes from inside north korea. once, i didn't eat for two days. i only drank water. recently people have been knocking on the door, - asking for food, because they are so hungry _ hearing from people inside this isolated country is extremely rare. but with fears the country is on the brink of a famine, we've been secretly communicating with people who live there. we're using actors and animations to illustrate their words, and have changed their names to protect them. in our village, five people have starved to death. chan ho is a construction worker living near the chinese boarder. in one family, the wife was too ill to work, so the two children were surviving by begging. in the end, all three of them died. at first, i was afraid of dying from covid, but then i began to worry about starving to death. at the start of the pandemic, north korea completely sealed its borders. these pictures released by the regime are all the world's been able to see. for years, no—one has been al

the stage is set in seoul to celebrate the 10th anniversary of boy band bts.gh their music, performances and engagement with fans of course, bts has become the most streamed band in the world. their ongoing success continues to fuel the success continues to fuel the success of k—pop culture globally. a reminder of our top story. the search continues in greece for the nearly 500 people who remain missing after one of the worst migrant boat disasters in the mediterranean in years. at least 79 people are confirmed to have died, with up to 100 children travelling in the hold. nine suspected people smugglers have been arrested. officials are denying reports suggesting an overloaded fishing boat sank when coastguards tried to attach a rope to the vessel. stay with us here on bbc news. hello there. it's looking pretty different weather—wise this weekend — we're not going to have wall—to—wall sunshine like we've had the previous weekend. we have low pressure working its way in. that's going to bring showers and some thundery downpours for many places. and there will b

our seoul correspondent jean mackenzie has spent months secretly communicating with people in north korearectly to people in north korea because they are banned from speaking to anyone outside the country, so we have worked with an organisation that has a secret network of sources within the country, which has been able to relay our questions and send back answers. but if the government knew these people had talked to us there is a chance they could be killed, so we have gone to great lengths to protect them. it has been a meticulous process which has taken us many months and we have had to use actors and animations to tell their words as part of our means to protect them. these supplies are so low, people have started dying. this chilling testimony comes from inside north korea. once, i didn't eat for two days. i only drank water. recently people have been knocking on the door, asking for food, - because they are so hungry. hearing from people inside this isolated country is extremely rare. but with fears the country is on the brink of a famine, we have been secretly communicating with p

are looking at futures in most markets looking to gain at the open, a few hours away from sydney, seoul, and tokyo and watching the japanese yen, trading close to the 140 level. haidi: we are watching what could be an interesting trading week ahead. let's get to vonnie quinn. vonnie: jp morgan has agreed to pay $290 million to settle a lawsuit alleging it knowingly benefited from sexual trafficking by client jeffrey epstein. this would settle a class action filed last year by an unnamed victim. jp morgan says the association with epstein is a mistake it now regrets. antony blinken says the trump administration was slow to counter chinese spying overseas. the past administration was aware beijing was expanding intelligence efforts and failed to slow it down. facilities in cuba could be capable of spying on southeast u.s. italy's former prime minister has died. the 86-year-old was one of italy's most influential politicians but his career was played -- plagued by corruption on sex scandals. his business empire spans media, banking, and sports. global news 24 hours a day powered by more th

this report is from our seoul correspondentjean mackenzie — a warning it contains some distressing imagesorth korea. once, i didn't eat for two days. i only drank water. recently people have been knocking on the door, asking for food, - because they are so hungry. hearing from people inside this isolated country is extremely rare. but with fears the country is on the brink of a famine, we have been secretly communicating with people who live there. we are using actors and animations to illustrate their words, and have changed their names to protect them. in our village, five people have starved to death. chan ho is a construction worker living near the chinese boarder. in one family, the wife was too ill to work, so the two children were surviving by begging. in the end, all three of them died. at first, i was afraid of dying from covid, but then i began to worry about starving to death. at the start of the pandemic, north korea completely sealed its borders. these pictures released by the regime are all the world's been able to see. for years, no—one has been allowed to enter the country

the market opens in sydney, seoul and tokyo.use, a treehouse, ♪ ♪ honestly i don't care ♪ find the perfect vacation rental for you booking.com, booking. yeah. >> lots of testing, lots of thinking about what could go wrong, lots of research, you know, when i was an art historian, that was in the old days before the internet, where you sit in the stacks and you pull one thing from the bibliography and you put all of these things together. i feel like i do that in my due diligence. >> this is daybreak asia counting down to patients major market opens. -- asia's major market opens. testimony on the hill from jay powell coming up and soft tanks -- softbank's annual meeting with lots of geopolitical moves as well. plenty to be considering in terms of what is going to make the markets move today, haidi. >> so much of this is down to that risk aversion, the pullback that we saw before the fed share and onset -- fed chair, and we see more strategists considering whether this is a time to part from profits given the magnitude of uncertain

annabelle: we are 10 minutes underway for tokyo, seoul and sydney. jump of 6% at the open. what is driving that is a freeze that raised it to buy from hold. this is down to the nvidia story, the sales forecast and guidance when the company lead to a rally across the board for semi related stocks. it is lovely the market is going to be pricing on as an ai play. a quite big jump from where it was. if you change on now, this is a wave above grade we have seen for softbank this week. three upgrades in the past three weeks or so. we are seeing that stock trading higher over the past five sessions. in terms of the downside limit, any drop in shares would likely trigger a ibec. another group of stocks we are tramping are the apple suppliers. we understand that they are working on plans to expand the regional chain in asia. the tech giant could open 15 new stores across apac, additional outlets in europe and north america. three sites in india and and outputs in malaysia. shery: let's get to vonnie quinn with the first would headlines. >> senate majority lea

a british man has been arrested in the south korean capital, seoul, after trying to scale the world'se man had intended to parachute off the top. stay with us here on bbc news. hello there. it's going to be another hot, sunny, humid afternoon but with some big thunderstorms developing as well, as we'll see in a moment. we started off the day, though, with these red skies over redcar and cleveland. over the weekend, the first heatwave of the year has certainly arrived, temperatures peaking at 32.2 degrees celsius on saturday in chertsey. that's the mark to beat. we'll get quite close to that later on this afternoon, with temperatures expected to reach 31 or 32 degrees. the hotspots across parts of northern england and southern scotland. lots of hot and sunny weather around today. a few showers building over the high ground in scotland, a few for western counties of northern ireland. but the biggest storms today will be where the winds kind of bash together and converge in a zone across wales, the midlands, central, southern england towards east anglia and the greater london area. some

this, from our seoul correspondentjean mackenzie. it is impossible to speak directly.able to find people who wanted to be interviewed by us. then we had to get our questions to them and have their answers relate to us. each answer was in installments. it was too risky even to send one full answer back at a time. this was hundreds of messages sent back and forth to be able to collate this information and build up this picture of what is happening in north korea at the moment. iloathed picture of what is happening in north korea at the moment. what have the north korean _ north korea at the moment. what have the north korean establishment - north korea at the moment. what have the north korean establishment said i the north korean establishment said in response? we the north korean establishment said in response?— the north korean establishment said in response? we did put our findings to them. in response? we did put our findings to them- and — in response? we did put our findings to them. and you _ in response? we did put our findings to them. and you are _ in response

on monday, the capital, seoul, was lit up in purple, the band's signature color.ince the seven-member boy band made its debut with this video, they have gained a huge international following and generated a ton of pride back home. >> translator: i'm so proud to be a citizen of the same country as bts. now, everywhere i go, when i say i'm from korea, people welcome me. i'm proud of them and happy. i hope bts will continue their career. >>> the denver nuggets are now nba champions for the first time in their 47-year history in the league. fans lit fireworks and celebrated in the streets after the nuggets defeated the miami heat 94-89, in game five of the finals on monday, taking the series 4-1 games. jimmy butler led miami with 21 points in the lose effort. jokic finished with a game-high 28 points and 16 rebounds and was named most valuable player of the finals. the city of denver will hold a victory parade on thursday. >>> thanks so much for your company. i'm rosemary church. have yourselves a wonderful day. cnn newsroom continues with next. good thing adding lyso

here's our seoul correspondent jean mackenzie — and a warning — you may find the report distressing.is chilling testimony comes from inside north korea. once i didn't eat for two days, i only drank water. recently, people have been knocking on the door asking for food _ because they're so hungry. hearing from people inside this isolated country is extremely rare. but with fears the country is on the brink of a famine, we've been secretly communicating with people who live there. we're using actors and animations to illustrate their words and have changed their names to protect them. in our village, five people have starved to death. chan ho is a construction worker living near the chinese border. in one family, the wife was too ill to work, so her two children were surviving by begging. in the end, all three of them died. at first i was afraid of dying from covid, but then i began to worry about starving to death. at the start of the pandemic, north korea completely sealed its borders. these pictures released by the regime are all the world has been able to see for years. no one has

here's our seoul correspondent, jean mackenzie. escaping north korea is a treacherous game., it cut off their only escape route. for months, three people inside the country have risked their lives to tell us about the devastating impact this is having. we're using actors and animations to illustrate their words. the government strictly controls the border, using covid as an excuse. but really, it's to stop the smuggling and people crossing the river to china. this is a market trader living near the border, who we're calling myong suk. if you even approach the river, you'll be given a harsh punishment. there's almost nobody crossing now. authorities are also trying to wall people in, erecting fences and surveillance cameras. guards have been ordered to shoot anyone attempting to cross. and in a country already synonymous with brutal prison camps and public executions, a construction worker we're calling chan ho, has told us crackdowns are intensifying. every day it gets harder to live. 0ne wrong move and you're facing execution. _ a friend's son told me about several closed d