. >> earlier, nhk world spoke with susumu kojima in beijing. >> susumu, can you tell us why this case has become so complicated? >> it's still not clear what went wrong after the initial arrangement agreed by the u.s. and chinese officials. but according to a chinese activist who's been supporting chen, after moving to the hospital, chen said that he felt stressed and became desperate because so many uncomfortable things happened, including threats to his wife. so, it's believed that he had no choice but to change his mind about staying in china. >> i see. so, then how do you think this case will affect u.s./china relations? >> well, top officials from the u.s. and china held their annual talks in beijing last week, but all the attention was on chen's case. the two countries made their position clear concerning human rights issues in china. >> we will continue engaging with the chinese government at the highest levels in putting these concerns at the heart of our diplomacy. >> china repeatedly expressed their frustration, saying that the u.s. was interfering in their domestic affairs

susumu kojima, nhk world, beijing. >> all right. here is the latest market figures. >>> all right. and now mai shoji with the weather forecast for here and elsewhere. >> as for here, gene, well, we look like we're going to be having a sunny weekend ahead of us in metropolitan tokyo. and much of the country, except for northern japan. as we speak, we are seeing some snow in the northern region of hokkaido, especially towards the east. that's going to be tapering off, however, by sunday. so much of the country will be looking at some clear skies, so great weekend ahead of us. high pressure will be dominating the korean peninsula as well, however, very different story here in central china and that will be moving towards the eastern region hunan province is where deadly tornado and rainstorms have hit the region early this week. now, this looks like another rainstorm is redeveloping over the regions and bringing some heavy downpour, which could exceed as much as 250 millimeters in the next 24 hours in and around hunan province. this is where the ground is very, very saturated, still,

. >> thank you very much susu susumu kojima in beijing. >>> major u.s. bank jpmorgan suffered a loss of $2 billion in derivatives transactions. the company's top executive jamie dimon made the announcement in a conference call on monday. on thursday, rather. their loss occurred in a unit that the bank says was designed to manage risks across all areas of the firm. dimon apologized for the loss saying the strategy was flawed, poorly executed and poorly monitored. there was no illegal act, he said. dimon did not elaborate on the cause of the loss but some people in the market say the bank suffered from adverse moves in the european sovereign bond market where fears about debt problems are resurfacing. >>> china's inflation is slowing, giving rise to speculation that the country's government might move to ease monetary policy. the national bureau of statistics of china said the consumer price index rose 3.4% in april from the same month last year. that's down 0.2 percentage point from march. the index is below the government target of 4% for a third term --