thousands of demonstrators in taiwan and the kind of got me in front of the constant of office in taipei to protest the construction of a new clean compounds . the scene about eight thousand five hundred people and taking signs protesting the finalhingg how fun team in taipei city the center but that isn't seen as being completed. they can say is among dozens of crown says the new teaches us things cushion on japan. it wasn't mine to plan still don't but i'm done before to feel drawn to install ten and the level of support for putting the plunge into operation. by telling us to the sea containers as sixty percent of the proton against a twenty five percent. i don't think that this is satan will continue to sit in and tell that to increase to a compromise. recent winning goal to set sail from the port beam in the ndp fact an expedition on the japan's north east kent coast. when it comes only weeks after the international court of justice ordered that part of the program be suspended. i like taking one step at a time. we want to ensure the survival of traditional unit. that's our biggest m

it so we would start off where the highway begins in taipei i'm in that we would travel all the way to soleil been all along the way i'm into the production team is an amazing job of helping us to find an easing of people and getting that their homework beforehand. this finding people to talk to people who have opted to a traditional family business people for doing things that i've never experienced before. i've been so lucky i in my stomach i want i've been very very fortunate that a lot of different places in the week this program. i haven't been to any place that i've been to before. ok so that there's a fine three leak of fun places to go. in a really special parts about the program are what we read it to somebody that we were planning on reading into the wheel we come across a sound that we were expecting to come you'll come across something in those things become part of the show moves or has this organic kind of traveling feel to it like we're actually going there and see friends in a car. you know. we obviously do have a planned visit the pink and she of course just like a

students have occupied the legislature in taipei for 20 days. is urging them to and this it in, which reflects skepticism over greater economic ties with china. the search for the missing malaysia airliner is now focusing on a stretch of ocean northwest of perth where three separate audio signals have not been detected. let's head over to paul allen in sydney. what do we know about the so-called acoustic events? pings which,se are were detected by a chinese ship which was prepared -- patrolling an area 270 kilometers northwest of perth and the search for the missing malaysia airlines flight. it twice a detected these events, once on friday, once on saturday, only for about 90 seconds before it was disturbed by other noises in the ocean. most crucially was the frequency were these pings transmitted on, the exact same frequency used by flight recorders. an encouraging lead indeed. also, an acoustic event was picked up by the australian over vessel ocean shield 300 nautical miles north of where the chinese ship made its discovery. still plenty of o

officials in beijing and taipei swiftly reacted to obama this remark on the sand cuckoo islands they reiterated their claim over the territory. some call it used to execute each with its quota of the cooled. and if allah not to harm which has tutorials sovereignty taiwan's foreign ministry spokesperson says obama for mark refers only to the administration of the time and not territorial rights. just you and allah says that all parties involved should shelve their disputes and to seek a peaceful solution to the issue through dialogue obama will visit seoul on friday south korea is the second stop after japan of his four nation tour of asia. he will hold a summit meeting with his counterpart present pop quintet and will discuss nuclear issues involving north korea. in each year old world to marry kolkata reports from saul people living in seoul on the aisle where they are about to close at the idps the mood in the city is new tips ahead of prisons obama as physics. south koreans are still coming to terms with last week's deadly various things. she still did it again. the rap centered a

. >>> taiwanese police have evicted anti-nuclear protesters staging a sit-in on a road in central taipei. 37 people were injured in the incident. more than 3,000 protesters gathered on sunday evening and continued through the night. a citizens group organized a demonstration to call on the government to halt the construction of a nuclear power plant near taipei. police began using water cannons to disburse the group before dawn on monday. they feared the sit-in would disrupt morning traffic. some of the protesters clashed with authorities during the eviction. more than 90% of the work on taiwan's fourth nuclear plant is complete. but construction was suspended last year due to public concerns over safety. many residents started to worry about atomic energy after the accident three years ago at japan's fukushima daiichi nuclear facility. the president announced on sunday that his government would freeze construction on the plant. he plans to hold a referen couple to ask voters whether or not building work should go ahead. but analysts say it may be difficult to hold a referendum before th

yesterday in taipei, for the first time since this protest almost three weeks ago, for the first time the speaker of the legislature went back to the legislature, his place of business or to speak, and met with the students. almost three weeks ago, the students stormed the legislative chamber and have been occupying it ever since. they are inside the chamber holding a captive and they have demands. the the man's broiled down simply to they want an oversight law passed by the legislature that would give oversight -- an oversight mechanism on future deals with china. then, after that is passed, they will agree to having the current trade services pact with china be reviewed and maybe but through the legislature as well. so they want the oversight lobby for the review. that is basically the slogan. went down and met the students yesterday and agreed in principle that that should be the way forward. but the problem for the ruling kmt is another lawmaker, the caucus head who came out and said he was shocked. he was surprised by the other lawmaker. they did not agree with what he had agreed

. >>> more than 2,000 people have marched in taiwan's capitol taipei to protest against government planso build a new nuclear reactor. this will be the island's fourth nuclear power plant. they have rejected the demands to stop construction. in venezuela, thousands of the opponents of the president demanding the arrest of people tarrested in anti-government protests letters year. last year. lack of basic food has brought protests. >>> protesters who held up pro-marijuana posters said that prohibition has led to violence and corruption. they want the right to sell the drug. >>> hundreds of sherpas in nepal risk their lives every year to climb up to the highest mounta mountain. we spoke with a nepalese monk about how deaths of the sherpas has effected the community. >> the sherpa community has many monks and i look after a district. [ bell ringing ] i not only help the community perform their spiritual ceremonies but those rites that surround bit and death. the tragedy at everest means i have had to perform many funerals. i've known many of the victims and their families for years: the com

students have occupied the legislature in taipei for 20 days now.ker urging to end of the city in which reflect skepticism of a greater economic tie with china. looking to raise cash. raise three to point -- $3.9 billion. if you look at twitter, there is a market value of $24 billion. at expansion in china. and not in economic terms. we are having a look at beijing's growing problem with obesity. next, the voting underway in india and what will be the world's biggest exercise in democracy. we will be discussing applications for the country and more. ♪ >> coming to you live from central hong kong studios. world's biggest democracy beginning the mammoth task of selecting a new government today. india has more than 800 million eligible voters. it will take about five weeks to complete let's take a look at the big numbers involved now. whichever party emerges victorious, india faces a major challenge is. pictures of how people vote over there. voters in villages like this one, indeed, the biggest cities will really be added as these polls commence now f

. >> more than it 32,000 people have marched into taipei to protest against government plans to build a new nuclear reactor. this would be the island's fourth nuclear power plan. taiwan's premiere has rejected opposition plans to stop construction. >>> in venezuela thousands have deified a high court ruling demanding the release of people arrested since anticipate government marchs began last year. shortage of basic food stuff has grown into mass protests. >>> native americans have joined the keystone pipeline protes pr their worried that it could damage water supplies. >> we do not want to pollute our water and destroy our land. we want to see our children and our grandchildren survive on the plains as our forefathers have done for many generations. we need president obama to reject the keystone excel pipeline. >> dozens of homes have been destroyed by a tornado in the u.s. state of north carolina. winds over 160 kilometers an hour ripped through towns on friday. at least 16 people were hurt, thousands of homes were left without power and the storm has since moved out to sea. >>> now

trying to persuade students to stop their protest by jean king appeared at the parliament building in taipei on sunday. here's the protesters to end their occupation immediately. wang had earlier issued this statement is that the authorities will speed up the process of drafting a law is to setup the system for parliament to check any agreements with china in and that's the thing that has that anymore. anime is to improve the trade pact which i now will be suspended until this isn't is established this is representative welcome the statement by the said they're calling for tougher regulations than those proposed by the authorities. legislative candidates and leaders of political parties in indonesia now wrapped up their campaigns on saturday the final day of appealing to voters ahead of an upcoming general election in the shareholding general election every five years while the national party's a contest in wednesday's balance which is widely seen as a runner at the presidential poll in july the party could only field its own candidate in the presidential election if it raises at least twent

you'll be seeing some rain coming up for thursday of twenty three degrees taipei at twenty four a sunny skies or shanghai the twenty six there is whole and twenty three but tell you you'll be seeing some rain had twenty five degrees here's a look at a severe tropical storm path which is now continuing to slowly move for the north is actually drifting right now eventually it will turn to the north and east and noble way of from the all the skyline. well that's a lot of islands but he will continue move on toward that direction may be taking up the waves of the areas of need to look out for that either looks like though the rain dance on maine the state with the eu so that is a good thing but again be careful to point out over in the area is a look at your own. we are seeing a couple of areas of low pressure spinning right now one down for the balkan peninsula another located over italy and this is going to continue to bring some heavy rainfall and maybe even some thunderstorms at times the need to look out for that analysts say that a good portion of the area even into the western portio

they left a legislative chamber in taipei to cheering crowds. this is a representative told reporters that vacating the parliament does not mean the end of the demonstrations the leader said. they will continue to demand tougher rules for examining deals with china demonstrators say to those proposed by friends of mine tells administration are not good enough. the group is upset that the pact signed last june that would open up trade in dozens of service sectors. they lived at the parliamentary speaker had promised to stop the process towards approving the deal until the new system is in place to sit in with a loud legislature to protect the green in the taranaki in advance. experts as opposition to the trade deal with china could have lasting effects. university of georgia professor. yes and no mud to die is a leading expert on cross strait relations. the alarm the line at this time. we'll make a huge negative impact. i was gone. the investor. won't do the investment and unwanted with the moon. taiwanese. put them in time. yes. mind you one. on

highs in the teens over in shanghai, 21 in taipei and tokyo topping off at 23 degrees. we switch gears, taking a look at the americas. look at the very pleasant weather for the western portions of the united states. but, the system back toward the east, this is a trough and a front that has consistently brought strong thunderstorms for the eastern half of the country. it is sliding toward the east. but, still seeing the red shading of the carolinas, into florida, for tuesday. we're looking at mainly for strong winds but possibly some large hail, and also maybe an isolated tornado because of the system being set up, and behind it, we do have that ridge, but fire weather danger for texas, new mexico, and in to oklahoma. this system that's going to push off to the east, still responsible for bringing some snow in to parts of canada and the canadian maritime. and so it's going to be quite cold behind this front. look at the chicago topping off at 3. 19 in d.c. 14 in atlanta. but back toward the west, los angeles topping off at 28 degrees. we wrap up in europe. we still have

eighteen then the idealism of them at the time of the taipei with an agreement can be signed between a man on the fifth console. and as one enters in the manifesto states that would be on the main race on signal to the will of the deal will say isn't really our country into the real impression on top of each others' of the small model think that would be the case. ok we need to take another break on the program will be back in tis few minutes. fan. it is. is steve the show the eye the lack of today's program keen on top while the behold we will. we're continuing our conversation without david paul who was an associate research fellow of the institute of european and american studies at the academic senate. the meal was talking about the o the first meal every six years. the official talks between the hat's off to go back to taiwan. also t ill in china. and that during the course of their go to meetings being that the latter one inch of height apparently according to newspaper reports. no deals have discussed the possibility of focusing the mind you'll fall and beyond having a meeting

when looking at temperatures anywhere from nineteen inch on hyde twenty six in taipei twenty one is told in the western portions of the penny to look out for some for air quality coming in from beijing tokyo temperatures topping up in the mid twenties under mostly sunny conditions. here's a look at your own clear skies and very pleasant weather thanks to this persistent re age that's controlling the weather for the western portions of europe a pact with the east. so unstable weather bringing in rain precipitation you that bit of snow along with the rain down into the balkan peninsula. so looks like that there's going to be more activity going to the rest of tuesday into wednesday and now it is some rain over this particular area of various spots around the world were looking up to scott for something totally deaf and has a look at some video coming out of los angeles. this was a part of a blend of war. take a lunar eclipses as going to take place called the text reading because the skies are clear over l a. you see the color of the red of the blood noon that was what took place at the fu

and timt over to taipei kopin. 10, what has been happening at htc? >> it's interesting you say.if it is in your portfolio. she is saying that the value of her own portfolio fell with everyone who else -- everyone else who owns shares in the company. in summer last year, she stepped back and decided to be more involved. since the founding of the company, she has not been a very active manager of the company. she has basically been the chairwoman and that's about it. company the day-to-day relate to the ceo and president. before that, it was another of the men -- another gentleman. things have taken a turn for the worse the last few years. she stepped up her day-to-day interaction in the company from just wanted two days in a week. in the office three to four days in the office. the key things she has done since he came back is really to test a lot of the work away from peter joe. peter has been in charge of everything as ceo and president come everything from finance to product a sales to marketing. but now, since she has come back and taken a more active role, peter, who said he

then the real bad cold and has defended the choice of not thinking hong kong taipei area still in a thunderstorm warnings hail storm warning as well as the thunderstorm advice has boosted by the cross of western japan mina to hong kong still looking quite messy but it was the extent that spring high pressure dominates much of the nation bringing dry and calm conditions eighteen degrees here in a tokyo with christopher and nine on twenty two has been teaching and in seoul korea that could of went and bought them in full bloom and the cooking and thirty six degrees to indochina peninsula and the eastern indiana sleeping outside temperatures rising to two cookies don't temperatures are soaring in the forties across burma and in india hundred and twenty gb for making forty two on your thirst acer think the time carried it across america at the pathetic story with her bringing the wet conditions the coastal areas and that's likely to plant where the topic is going to be a blessing for the city or town area but heavy snow block area would be about sixty centimeters of fresh snow. another area with bli

was held in the frame of the environment month seven thousand trees were planted within one day in taipeiwas because the baby in the event the city residents say that this event shows the younger generation that they should love their hometown. that scene. the contents of the people everyone should be concerned about the city will plant these trees to see how they grow in line with the daily press story that in its debut among the residents together with employees are in the eye without national parkland in nearly ten thousand for trees and must not come up in the day before the nation grew closer look on the social networks to help restore pine forest affected by the hurricane in two thousand and eleven organizers expected nearly three other people to take part in the campaign but the number of volunteers appeared to be four times more students pensioners employees of local government and private companies were among them last year seventy thousand meter high for a swim landed at the foot of book not amounted to bail monday residents clinic ten sen stevens of the mountain slope. all twen

let's get to taipei and tim culp -- andhed him culp and tim kolpin. >> sales declines, not a new phenomenonbut that has been going on for 10 quarters in a row. the market pretty much knows that. they rewarded htc accordingly with more than an 80% drop in shares. more recently, the chairwoman who i spoke with a few weeks ago, has gotten much more involved day-to-day. she along with a couple of others founded the company. since that time, she has not been a hands-on manager. peter jo is focusing a lot more products, which means rotted design, product execution, manufacturing supply chain management. and basically making sure that the product they design can be manufactured at a high-quality and shipped out the door so they can actually try and boost their sales. that was a big problem for them a year ago. they didn't get all their ducks in a row. even though they launched the htc 1 last year, he did not come out in the timing they expected. was not veryuction high and they did struggle. but with the chairwoman coming back in and spending a lot more time at the office, previously she was doing

ie ex and taipei just off -- taiex and taipei just off a fraction.ila down as we await the aprifle of president barack obama there. up next, vietnam's seeing several offerings missing their targets. we'll be live in hanoi. ♪ >> japan dragging equities lower. and offerings missed the mark. and the nikkei off the lows of the session. i think that index is at a two week low. >> stocks in japan are pulling things lower. shy of 14,300. look at the picture in japan. that's how it looks for the session. we are looking at yields on the 10 year. 61.9 to be exact. a few stocks we have been following, in terms of capital, structure, some changes as far as organizational structure is concerned. in april,g, starting that's the story with olympus. the story has been about share buybacks. they announced share buybacks friday and we are continuing to see gains. japan display. .t dropped to the lowest 13 and a half percent. let's switch gears and take a look at what is happening in australia. mining shares worth 1300. if you look at what is rising, it's sharp gold se

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u s complaints and tried to make sure that the all across trade exchange between the beijing and taipei. with the cutie in the forty four mm on to the awash in b c also got out the window make sure the us can continue to trust i want is empty of all partners to secure a pun as economic partners and celeste known as a democrat. it's okay. and though we all prison mine joe sitting in new year's day address the economic revival will be priority number one mission in taiwan and under that umbrella. of course for telling to join regional trading blocs like ppp are set. also consider very important what are some of the obstacles to difficulties tuc. but come on to join these very important regional trading blocs. well the first idea i don't mind the phrase said. my peanut too much on his caller id on the look the mn and is he in a foreign phrase nice to always have extra nice. the fact is i think he's a jump into conclusion to ptsd china can be used as skeptical look i was not to participate in the tdp law said yes i think the man to ikea for taiwan to participate in a trans pacific partnersh

during that time, shares have tumbled nearly 90% and taipei.nedants bank bitcoin transactions. a closed account with the nation's biggest exchange for the virtual currency. still uselients can of their banks. the government has been urging companies to help the climb after trading surged in china. it has in a tough stretch with shares falling to one year lows on friday. china has been cracking down on this. the government may suspend some licenses after finding inappropriate content on the site. as we mentioned earlier, president obama heads to the final leg of its toward today. he is likely to be met with protests on the street. artifice agenda is closer to to allow them to be stationed temporarily to counter china's rising influence. this has been top of the list. not everyone agrees with this. she is visiting the presser at the university of sydney. she joins us for the pettitte to asia. is it too early to say whether or not obama has been greeted with success or failure? say that obama's trip to japan was very successful from the point of v

and as chairman, i led two bipartisan delegations to taipei and other places to examine taiwan's economyand to look at its defense capabilities. and today's legislation is the product of the committee's bipartisan effort to prioritize the u.s.-taiwan relationship. by incorporating two pieces of legislation, both which passed the committee unanimously, the house of representatives is now in a position to fulfill both the spirit and the letter of the taiwan relations act. this legislation allows the esident to transfer for sale four guided missile frigets to taiwan, which are greatly needed to augment taiwan's defense capabilities. i have seen firsthand the world war ii era submarines and the 50-year-old fighter jets that form the core of taiwan's military. congress has made it clear to the administration that it wants more defense sales to taiwan. these four ships would bolster taiwan's defense, to ensure that peace in the taiwan strait continues to benefit the entire region. in addition to supporting taiwan, this legislation also authorizes the transfer of excess demissioned naval vessel