heavy rain is expected in shizuoka and kochi on tuesday and severe thunderstorms expected in niigatan the evening but conditions will improve in shizuoka and kochi as we go into wednesday and thursday. people in the central and eastern china are finally seeing dry weather on tuesday. but some of the rivers are still swollelen due to the recent downpours. on monday chinese authorities reported t that the water level of 433 rivers have passed their allotted levels. the river and streams are still exceeding the warning level. the government says it will momonitor the norththern chinan rivevers because h heavy rains expected to continue in that area. a front will develop once again wednesday as a tropical depression moves north and brings a lot of moisture. showers will increase in and around shanghai on wednesday with up to 120 millimeters possible. there will be showers wednesday and it will continue into the weekend. that's it for now. stay safe. >>> the head of the world health organization is warning that the coronavirus pandemic will get even worse if countries fail to take stricte

let me show you some video how the of shizuoka where we had heavy winds and rain battering the area. preliminary data shows 500 millimeters fell and residents have been advised to watch out for flying debris, flooding, and traffic delays due to this pattern. this morning it was quite a bit on the busy side. when you have gusts hitting up to 80 kilometers per hour with 124 millimeters falling in a six-hour period. this rainy season front has a lot of rain packed with it. and as we look forward into the next few hours, it's going to be rolling out toward the east. now, the cold front is going to be moving through and behind it we're going to actually see something quite different. much drier weather and, yeah, it's going to warm some places seeing highs near 30 degrees as we go through thursday. looking at the forecast here, tokyo up to 31 on thursday. 29 in osaka and fukuoka. you need your umbrellas. friday and through the weekend it's going to be wet once again. as we look at what's happening across north america up toward the upper plains, we have been dealing with these storms that

stormy weather is expected in tokyo and shizuoka in the latter part of the day on friday and in to saturdayorning. some showers will be heavier at times in osaka and fukuoka over the next couple of days. it's affecting central and eastern china. showers will per assist on friday, and a daytime heat will also create thuhunder showewers hongng kong, taipei and manila, with highs in the 30s. hot weather is effecting southern parts of europe. some of the thunderstorms have brought large hail and damaging winds. the highs will climb in the 32 degrees, that is ten degrees warmer than usual for the area. showers may bring some cooler conditions this weekend. in the meantime, temperatures will rise in the southwest. highs for lisbon and madrid, will warm up to the upper 30s over the next couple of days. stay safe and have a nice weekend. ♪ >>> that is all for this edition of nhk newsline, thank you for watching and hopeful to see you again. xxx >>> welcome to "newsline indepth" we come to you from the rooftop of nhk headquarters. behind me, japan's capitol is slowly coming back to life after the li

seijiro takeshita is a professor at the university of shizuoka. at the postponement of the games. well, to make a long story short, we are all gutted. of course, there is the physical side. the economic aspect, but moreover, it's the psychological negative let down that people are feeling. many japanese were seeing this olympics as an ignition point to get ourselves out of this, the last decade, the last two decades, where japan had been stagnating. it was some kind of icon of the psychological legacy that would put us into a new phase. that's the reason why we are really looking forward to this olympics. so many people are quite gutted over the fact that it's been postponed and possibly cancelled as well. of course, i'm really sorry to hear. let's break it down. you talk about different types of losses. i mean, the economic loss, people coming from all over the world to japan and lots of things being built, on the on the olympic villages and all of that. what's happening with all of that right now? the estimate is basically between 4 trillion to