on monday a tornado was sighted and hailstorms hit many parts of new south wales. now, cooler than average temperatures and wet weather will continue into thursday. take a look at this. snow is on the menu in many places in the mountains in new south wales and victoria. here's your extended forecast. >>> more to come here on nhk world, so stay with us. >> we are broadcasting live from paris. it is 1:00 here in france and here are the headlines. the german chancellor gears up for tomorrow's summit in vienna that will be dominated by the migrant crisis. before that, angela merkel will visit a refugee center hit five violent protests -- hit by violent protests. ministers are set to meet to come up with new security measures to prevent terror attacks on public transports. this comes after the terror suspect has been charged with terrorism. further violence breaks out in lebanon as the government affairs

let's have a look at what was captured in the town in new south wales. this is a tornado not quite touching the ground. it did cause trouble. it wasn't alone in this severe weather. the vast amount of rain family. the dam set to be recommissioned breached itself. this is south of sydney. that produced 248 millimeters of rain. that's where the problem came. i'd like to say it's all over, but i can't. the rape is still there in the forecast for wednesday. although it will wind itself out of the way, coming down through greens land is the next interesting built of weather, heading for sydney and to forecast the severe weather, in sydney is there, as well. for some curious reason, this winter season, all of a sudden in new south wales and now has turned really quite vast amounts of rain and tornadoes, and possibly more to come. >> sierra leone could be declared free of ebola. the countries last known patient with the virus is reds from hospital. the outbreak that began last year has killed 11,000 people in west africa, a third of them in sierra leone. we hav

george's basin area of new south wales. there is forecast weather warnings of heavy rains. he state news agency said that there have been human casualty in north korea. in south korea, it said it is willing to discuss the lifting of sanctions on north korea. the offer comes a day after the offer was reached of de-escalation between the two countries. >> attempt to calm the market appear to have little effect with stocks falling for a fifth consecutive day. >>> egypt's president is in moscow meeting with president putin. it is his third visit to moscow since he took office in 2014. thai authorities have destroyed two tons of illegal ivory worth $2.8 million. it included tusks of more than 200 african elephants. thailand is a major destination of smuggled ivory but it's under increasing pressure. >>> concrete blast walls are proving to be the perfect blank canvas. jennifer glass explains why. >> on the barriers that is built to create security, across the street they're painting hearts as a symbol of healing the nation. it's all the work of artists, with a few hundred dollars

herd in south wales will be a casualty of the dairy crisis.the former has half the number of cows and will sell the rest -- has halved the number of cows and will sell the rest by year's end -- end. >> prices have crashed. it has made it unsustainable to keep milking cows here. reporter: the company won't give up without a fight. he and other farmers are force thehis to supermarket to pay more for the milk it uses for cheese. after three hours, tesco agrees to talk, the latest in a string of concessions. >> i think the campaign is going extremely well, but i think the thing that shocked everybody is that young farmers, the next generation of our industry, are coming out with a loud voice and saying we will not put up with what our fathers put up with. reporter: the headline-grabbing protests are changing the relationships. >> essentially, the farmers have won. or at least the farmers have had a massive impact in securing a better deal for themselves than iny hvae in -- they have past disputes. reporter: here in cardiff, the farmers union hands

for example, new south wales temperatures will be cooling down to minus 7 degrees on friday. your low will be 7 degrees on friday. very chilly temperatures are waiting for you. and across europe there is a significant weather happening over the continent. large hail and damaging winds are expected across the north of the continent and south of the scandinavian peninsula. behind it wet and cool conditions for you. here is the extended forecast. >>> that's it for us here on "newsline." there is more to come here on nhk world so stay with us. /ñ>x you are watching "france 24," broadcasting live from paris. the e.u. could provide help to balkan countries hit by the financial crisis. angela merkel is in brussels to address the issue. we will talk to our correspondent. more than 3000 migrants crossed into hungary on thursday alone. we followed a group of migrants throughout their ordeal at the border of serbia. vester lee flanagan, who shot dead to reporters -- dead tw

of residents to abandon their homes. 300 properties have been flooded in the basin area of new south wales. there have been strong winds and more heavy rains. >>> nor's state news agency said that there had been 400 casualties afte after a typhoon passed over the area. south korea said it's willing to discuss the lifting of sanctions on the north. a deal was reached to defuse the sanctions on the country. >>> egypt's president is in moscow where he has been meeting president putin. this is president el-sisi's third trip to russia since he took office in 2013. and another sign of courting russian favor to compensate for strained relations with the united states. we have more from moscow. >> russia and vicinity j agreed in principle what they call a broad anti-terrorism front involving key international players in the region, including syria to fight the islamic state in iraq and the levant, to fight isil. that's an interesting development. the saudis have it specifically that there can be no future for president assad in syria. and the saudis hold the purse strings in are a large extent for

in new south wales, severe flooding, over 300 homes had to be evacuated. because of that moisture. you see a poor kangaroo jumping through there. but what we have going on, as far as the forecast is more showers out here. i think most of this is going to be south of sydney, but around canberra, you could be seeing precipitation thursday and also into friday. towards melbourne, victoria, showers on the friday. but into the inland locations, we got some snow in the forecast. overnight lows below freezing. let's look at the tropics in the atlantic. this is erica tracking off to the west. tropical storm warnings in effect for the lesser antilles, towards puerto rico as well. this one will struggle until it gets over here to the bahamas. most outlooks, including the national hurricane center expects that to be a hurricane off the east coast of florida. something to watch heading into the long range. here in europe, severe weather still a possibility across the netherlands, towards france and germany. cold front blowing through and this will be a hot spot headin

andrew thomas reports from singleton in new south wales. >> reporter: until recently, it was the wonder down under. that's changed. commodity prices have collapsed. the downturn is felt in towns like singleton. restaurants have closed and shops are empty. this car dealer is still in business, but has seen a 30% drop in sales and has been laying off staff. >> it's belt tightening for us. we have had 30, 40 people. now it's 25 people to keep the business afloat. >> the economy is tied into the coal industry. the price has tumbled, down by more than half in four years. this is the hunter valley north of sydney. just a few years ago it was booming. no longer. existing mines are cutting back on production. thousands are seeing cuts to wages or losing their jobs intirely. coal is australia's second biggest export. the biggest, iron ore, used to make steel, has seen its prices down. robert was being flown to remote copper mines where he works repairing machinery. he was told he lost his job by text message. >> my family is in shock. we are on a single income. start back over, getting out resum

it was a tough one, but new south wales was where most of the jobs were added. a lot of residential construction was going on there. it was trying to encourage people who were leaving the mining in this rate into a turnovern to allow of jobs or transfer of employment within the economy. a tough read, on the one hand it looks good because employees are hiring and more people looking for work will stop on the other hand, that unemployment rate is back to january levels. it's a little bit unclear what the final conclusion will be. rishaad: michael, thank you very much in sydney. we tell you we have coming up, we all heard about the silk road, what about the silk railway? bringing the best of europe to china. singaporeeaded to looking to build up to the country's golden jubilee. the six of the city success. ♪ ♪ >> we are here on the streets of singapore. this location was for the chinese immigrants were located in the early days. the city'so build economy. singapore is celebrating its 50th birthday this weekend. a huge celebration, because the city has come from slu

more than 300 properties have been flooded in new south wales. casters give warnings of flooding and heavy rains. >>> the state news agency said that there have been 40 menu casualties after a typhoon passed over the north korean peninsula. meanwhile, south korea said that it's willing to discuss the lifting of sanctions on north korea. it comes after a deal was reached in the deescalation between the two countries. >>> afghanistan'afghanistan has been deprived of many luxuries b what it does have are blank walls that are proving to be the perfect canvas. artists are transforming the barriers. >> the barriers, an effort to create stability. the anti-corruption message warn that the people and god are watching. across the street they're painting hearts as a symbol of healing the nation. it's all the work of artists and a group of volunteers. with a few hundred dollars of their own money for paint and supplies, they're working to change the kilometers that no kilometers of walls that make people feel trapped in their own city. >> if is time for afgh

. >> sergeant steve dilorenzo of the new south wales police department is the first officer to arriveene. >> i saw there was a man with a high-caliber semiautomatic pistol, and i noticed there were several hostages were screaming. >> the sergeant is armed with a taser gun. >> the taser carries a camera on it, and it films the person who was going to be tasered. i came up on his blind side. and fired the taser at the center of his body. the taser landed on a zipper, and he wasn't shocked by the weapon. i kept walking towards him, thinking the weapon had worked, and he pointed his firearm at my head and fired two shots straight directly at my head. you can see him firing back point-blank. >> a lot of noise. a lot of flashing. it's all sort of blurry because it happened so quickly. >> a fellow officers lends dilorenzo a weapon and a bulletproof vest. a fast and furious gun battle breaks out. >> i decided that i would shoot him in the lower leg, dropping him to the ground, rendering him immobile, and then rush at him and shoot him point-blank in the stomach area. >> but the gunman isn't g

the emphasis in the next day will be not so much in new south wales, maybe a little in victoria, a few showers from melbourne. and running down to queensland, and through brisbane. >> that is something we don't normally do. have a look at hawaii, and why would you. frankly, the weather is normally pleasant. recently, there has been a lot of thunder storms circulating around whole island chains. something like 100 metres has been recorded in honolulu. here, too, surprisingly, that caused flooding. minor flooding, but flooding all the same. i mentioned this because on the way to hawaii, it's a hurricane. >> that's all. stay with us, coming up on the programme israel takes actions from people making money from state subsidized goods. we report from sri lanka, where journalists are wary of promises of a free press. we'll tell you why the weather could scuffer the start of the dakar rally next year. year. ♪ ♪ ♪ get excited for the 1989 world tour with exclusive behind the scenes footage, all of taylor swift's music videos, interviews, and more. xfinity is the destination for all things tayl

it formed during a powerful storm that swept across the state of new south wales yesterday. number of homes have been flooded. some have been destroyed. several families force to do evacuate but so far there have been no reports of any major injuries. >>> american teenager killed in somalia for being quote too american. 17-year-old ammir ab dermon sent to boarding school in so male malia by his mother in december much she was trying to get him away from minnesota gangs and allow him to learn about his culture. instead the teen's family was told five people entered their son's room in may and beat him to death. officials at the boarding school acknowledged the killing blot not provide the remains. >> his roommates were told to leave his room and that he was beaten. sad to see the horror of what happened compounded by the lack of information and the lack of feeling there's something that can be done about it. >> minnesota senator is working with the state department to put pressure on the somali government to release the remains. president obama pushing for more clean energy s

firefighters there battling a huge brush fire in new south wales blue mountains n that part of australiarain helped them get it a little bit under control. it is feared the very difficult terrain will keep these fires going for days and davis. just incredible images there. >>> switching gears to politics now. tomorrow the white house sets in motion the most aggressive nationwide climate change program yet. the so-called clean power plan typical as a lot of them looking at what the white house just released. not everyone is happy about it. you've already got republican backlash. also executives in the energy business aren't going to be thrilled about this. let's talk about it here. walk us through it here. this is an extensive list coming out late this afternoon from the white house. >> that's right, poppy. i want to first tell you the contours of the plan that will be announced by the president here at the white house tomorrow. the plan calls for new regulations on coal-burning power plants with the goal they say, of reducing carbon emissions by 32% over the next 15 years. it would set c

that storm system will pull away from south wales and victoria. another active weather pattern that will bring impressive rainfall to melbourne. you can see the rainfall totals going forward anywhere between 50 to perhaps 150 millimeters of precipitation. so very active weather pattern continues. and there's still a possibility of more rainfall south of sydney. here's melbourne's forecast, showers from friday in to saturday. i'm going to quickly switch gears. i want to talk about the ongoing drought taking place in europe. specifically germany and poland. it's been hectic over the region thanks to a high pressure system that dominated the weather pattern keeping temperatures very warm and keeps the dry weather in place. it is not all bad. it has revealed impressive, quite beautiful artifacts from world war ii, believe it or not. the river which runs across poland, poland land's longest river is actually sunk to its lower levels. look at what it revealed for archaeologists coming back to discover what is a soviet era world war ii plane they also fo

are a lot of people who come in -- my great great grandfather came in as an immigrant from south-central wales. his father was a miner. he eventually made his way to the midwest. but like so many others, they came in and followed the legal path. i do not believe in amnesty. going forward we need a legal , immigration system that gives priority to american working families to focus on their jobs and their wages in a way that will improve the american economy. [cheering] >> [inaudible] gov. walker: the question was about the renewable fuel standard. we had an ethanol -- i do not support it. i do not support the concept. what i came here, i pointed out it is already in place. as you know the tax subsidy is , gone. the renewable fuel standard is still in place. you need to support the industry in place. i like to see all the different standards and mandates bunched together and phased out over time. that is why i said over the next couple of years because i believe you get work in excess, so you do not need the standard. market access is the issue. i have talked to farmers. giving that choice at t

who were here so the fort was named or princess augusta the new princess of wales and there was another fort built in the south part of the colony that was named fredricka after her new husband so the royal marriage was honored by oglethorpe in doing that create fortunately in augusta as in much of the backcountry of the south the revolution was really a civil war. it was between people who lived here, those were loyal to the crown and those who are part of the patriot or revolutionary force. in augusta that was true and so some of the fighting has that sort of a real warfare civil war nature about it. behind me are the representation of a continental soldier in uniform. they would come to the area toward the end of the war and then what we would have seen here most of the war and that is georgia militiamen. so you basically have two different armies fighting for the patriot cause. you have people within states who are part of their state militia as well as people who have joined with the continental forces under the command ultimately of george washington and washington would appoint general nathaniel green i

support was named for the princess of wales and there was another for to build in the south part of the comedy that was named frederika after the of prince so a the royal marriage was honored to do that. fortunately is in excess the end much of the of backcountry of the south south, the revolution was the civil war between people who lived here that were loyal to the crown or part of the revolutionary force. so some of the fighting has the guerrilla warfare. behind to me are the representation of the continental soldier isn't uniform they would come toward the end and then we would see is the militiamen said you have to different armies fighting for the patriot cause those that were part of the state's militia as well as those who joined up with those continental forces joining up with george washington and washington was appointed general nathanael greene as part of the southern forces after 1778. after the american revolution the indian trade was over and farmers filled up the back country in increasing numbers of land secessions with the cherokee to push them all the way out of georg

they have beaten south africa for the first time, did it away from home as well and island for walesiff winning 35-21. the rugby world cup gets underway in september. michael phelps is looking very good ahead of next year's olympics of the the 18-time gold medallist clocked the fastest butterf butterfly. he wasn't considered for the on ongoing world championships because of a drink-drive con conviction. it's felt his quickest time would have won him this year's world title by more than half a second. >> he will be going strong in rio, it would seem. >> that's it for me for now, laurin andy thank you very much indeed. see you tomorrow. >> that's it for me, lauren taylor for this newshour. i will be back in a few moremins with another round of the days news. stay with us if you can. thank you for watching "newshour" bye for now. ♪ >> this week on talk to al jazeera: stand-up comedian mo amer. >> it's like, "are you a terrorist"? like literally, "are you a terrorist"? i'm like... "who says yes"? like seriously, "who says yes"? oh... you got me! you're so tricky... here's the bomb, be ca

south coast. in johannesburg, paul, fox news. >> in your health news, the internet could be bad for your health. researchness wales immune system and increases the risk of colds and flu. they conduct add study with hundreds of people and found the average person spent at least six hours a day online. some spent over 10 hours. clearly average person doesn't have job. so what could make you sick? researchers say the lack of interaction with other people and less time spent outside being exposed to germs all play as roll. ♪ >>> time for another look at the weather. things continue to look good. we're hearing about scattered showers but in trenton, new jersey, right there looking at the capitol looks like they're all about a great day. >> yeah, great day in trenton a few clouds out there. of course, we have a number of looks across the area. trenton, the radar is all clear. birthday to talk about this was sent to us from karen yesterday she's off today. i want to wish dorothy schaeffer wish their mom a help birthday. 99 years old. looks great for nip nine, dorothy. we share our birthday weekend. one leo to another hap