you know, so international organizations, namely oecd, and unesco adopt joint guideline how to assure cross-border high education. and there they requested universities and governments and other stakeholder to get together to protect rights of the international student. >> well, professor, i'll get back to you later. >>> japan is another country that sees higher education as a promising business. like singapore, birth rates are dropping. for some universities and colleges, attracting foreign students is becoming a matter of survival. one market is seen as crucial in this effort. >> what is the role of this -- >> reporter: in south korea, getting ahead means learning the hard way. this is one of the top high schools in the country, teaching classes in foreign languages. academ the favored destinations are the united states and europe. prep schools for the ivy league colleges are big business. at this one, the curriculum is build around the university entrance examples. almost all classes are taught in english. they even offer horse riding lessons, supposedly good saddle skills are an e

even though this is a unesco world heritage site, a few dedicated italian archaeologists have been hereo help preserve the site. but redeveloping these wonderful places to tourism will be very much a part of building a new libya. thankfully, security guards are already in place stopping any potential plunder. >> health authorities in guatemala say that legal american experiments in the 1940's involved nearly twice as many people as previously thought. over 2500 guatemalans prisoners, psychiatric patients were injected with experimental drugs. half of them are believed to have died. >> you are watching bbc news day from the bbc in singapore. >> i am in london. these are the headlines this our peer leaders and senior officials from 60 countries have met leaders of the libyan transitional council in paris. >> a un report says that israel's raid on gaza was legal, but used excessive force. north korea has begun marketing cruises to the resort that lies just inside the border. operations were suspended three years ago. now the country is offering the world a glance inside. ->> the port holes

they're part of sacred sites and pilgrimage routes which were designated as a unesco world heritage site in 2004. local officials and people at the shrine plan to assess the extent of the damage and conduct rehabilitation work. >>> now to this week's special series, jt japan six months on." the half year anniversary of this country's devastating march 11th earthquake, sue ma'ammy and nuclear crisis is this sunday. monday we brought you a story from the port city of miyako about a community. tonight we'll head to the town of namie in fukushima prefecture where we'll focus on one of the biggest concerns in japan. the spread of radiation. the problem has sparked anxiety in northeastern parts of the country. japanese authorities are trying to limit the risk to children. some schools in fukushima prefecture restricted outdoor activities for students because of high levels of radiation. playing with sand in public places has been banned. precautions are also being taken in tokyo more than 200 kilometers from the nuclear plant. officials detected radiation exceeding the safety standard in sand

part of sacred sites and pilgrimage routes in the key mountain ranger, which were designated as i unesco world heritage site in 2004. people there plan to assess the extent of the damage and do rehabilitation work. >>> in the wake of the march disaster, japan's meteorological agency has come up with improved guidelines for issuing tsunami alerts. on march 11, a powerful earthquake in the pacific ocean sparked a series of tsunami that slammed into japan's northeastern coastline. however, in its warnings released right after the quake, the agency underestimated the size of the waves. specialists say this led to delays in evacuating residents. on wednesday, an agency study group released its final report on ways to improve tsunami warnings. the new guidelines call for the maximum possible alerts to be issued right after an earthquake with a magnitude of eight or higher. the agency predicts a massive earthquake could occur near the focus of the march quake or in waters west of tokyo. it identifies two areas off hokkaido that are believed to become simultaneously active and result in major ea

the kumononachi shrine is a unesco world heritage site. shrine complex when the storm triggered a landslide nearby. six officials from the cultural affairs agency toured the site on wednesday, led by the chief priest. workers had not been able to remove the mud for fear of damaging the shrine's buildings. but the officials explained to them how it can be done. >> translator: the damage is more serious than we expected. it will take more time to restore the shrine. people are concerned the shrine might be removed from the world heritage list. but i strongly believe this won't happen. >>> next we take you to our bureau in bangkok. what's making headlines in the region. >>> a series of deadly assaults by taliban fighters in the afghan capital kabul targeting the u.s. embassy and other facilities have finally ended. the attacks have raised concerns about the taliban's ability to penetrate even the most heavily protected districts in the capital. nhk world's hideki ui has more. >> rpg. get down! >> reporter: armed insurgents seized a building u

really want to accentuate a libya just because it's on everybody's mind right now do you know as to unesco sites there have been damaged or bombed from the very first day man precise these some of the conflict i have raunch the peals to all the involved parties. i have spoken and. then the tornado i can spoken also to be to believe me and so i have appealed to believe in people. to preserve this monument you know after the i hold the mean and end of the conflict will be sending commissions there but there is another aspect also inside train such cases which i think is important apart from their meeting monuments. as an aftermath of of such a conflict it's another tendencies emerging and another i would say very unfortunate it's maddening i will get to that later but i really want to ask you. after something like this happens one joined a call flaked cultural heritage is destroyed or damaged does anyone answer for that is anyone persecuted for that afterwards i can't say that situations have very different. situations for example in some of the african countries subjected by conflict let me

from the country to canada and this return this corporation was based on ninety seven to unesco convention there was no other legal way of doing it while you sat that major auction houses had been very responsive to your appeal the question remains who are the smugglers and why. those people who buy those objects well i mean the smugglers are. the same so out of this a smuggler said i'm doing the smuggling of arms. for human beings and otherwise unfortunately all the illegal trafficking is the most i would take organized and there are always people in gold sights of. doing that but the important thing is for the countries. of origin to have the means and the knowledge and the capacity to curb this smuggling in on the other side also the ethics of the moral norms also all of the different departments to do it or not to do it in fact we have done that we have. drafted a called the best fix for the trip all of the trade for cultural goods i think this is very important that it's taken on board by all the different and then of course the national registration to have the respective. introducti

the oldest and most comprehensive version of buddhist canon in woodcut,... which has been added to unesco's memory of the world program. hello, i'm peter bint and welcome to world sports. stoke city are the next team in the firing line for early pacesetters manchester united in the premier league this saturday, as they play hosts to the champions at the britannia stadium. park ji-sung will be looking to build on his two assists and impressive all-round performance midweek in the carling cup but it remains to be seen whether manager alex ferguson will stick with the south korean playmaker for the premier league tie. stoke are looking to bounce back from their 4-0 hammering at sunderland last week, but stopping a scintillating manchester united side that have scored 21 goals in their opening 5 games is going to be a tall order. in the bundesliga son heung-min could return to the starting line-up for hamburg after missing 3 weeks with injury. hamburg prop up the table with just 1 point, a dreadful start to the season that saw coach michael oenning fired this week. fans will be hoping that son