South koreas military earlier said the man went missing from a vessel near yeonpyeong island on monday, a day before he was spotted floating in the north waters of the yellow sea. They shot the man dead and burned his body. Officials said the north explained its troops fired more than ten shots as the man was trying to flee. The north also reportedly said its personnel didntt finthe mans body but burned the flotation material he used in accordance with covid19 guidelines. The north also said it would do its utmost to prevent something similar from happening again, to avoid damaging relations between pyongyang and seoul. For more insight we spoke to a doctor in seoul, a Research Fellow at the institute for north korean studies. From the standpoint of north korea, it must have realized that making the excuse that he was, and that he was for prevention of covid19 outbreak would not satisfy angry south korean public,c, so it needs to express at least a minimum amountnt of sincere apology and sadness for the victim and the incident. But i think this is to little, too short, in order to appease already angry south korean public toward north korea. It sends a strong signal to the moon jaein public that if you continue to exacerbate the situation created by the incident, all the achievements that the moon jaein government is preoccupied with like the september 19 declaration and the measures to reduce military tension will be abrogated by north korea. So its kind of warning south korea not to escalate attention created by the incident any further. Ceasefire agreement only applies to the forces. Killing of the civilian is not permitted under International Law, even under actual battle situation, so killing innocent civilian and burning his body is very clear violation of International Law by north korea, despite the explanation issued by north korea government that it was floating device, and it was unnecessary measure for coping with a covid19 outbreak. So it is north koreas attempts to prevent any criticism toward north koreas gross human right violations. Japans National Security adviser has hold his u. S. Counter part that tokyo isis studying alternatives to the aegis shore Missile Defense system. The head of the security, Kitamura Shigeru met National Security adviser Robert Obrien in washington on thursday. Kitamura said the japanese government is working toward a new policy on Missile Defense that will include a replacement for aegis ashore. Tokyo withdrew plans to deploy the landbased system earlier this year with officials citing the need to revamp the system to ensure rocket boosters land safely. Kitamura also told obrien that the cabinet of new japanese Prime MinisterSuga Yoshihide will remain cocommitted to strengthening the bilateral alliance. Hehe pledged close cooperation with washington to promote a free and open indopacificic. Many countries around the world are preparing for a possible resurgence of coronavirus cases. Japan is taking steps to promote social and economic activities. Government officials and experes med friday to discuss theheir antivirus strategy. The minister in charge of the Coronavirus Response said new plans are i in the works to stimululate consumption. Tran tran were planning to start two programs from mid october, go to event and go to shopping street. The go to Event Campaign is aimed att helping businesses in the entertainment field. Event goers can get discounts of 20 on tickets for museums, concer concerts, movies an Sports Events. The go to shopping Street Campaign is designed to help Small Businesses that hold festivals and events bring in more customers. Such shopping districts will be eligible for subsidies of up to about 28,000. The government plans to expand the goto travel incentive from october 1st to include trips to and from tokyo. Officials here in the capital confirmed 195 new infections on friday. The tally had fallen below 100 on three days this week. But that may have been because of lower testing over the fourday holiday through tuesday. Across japan more than 81,000 people have tested positive with over 1500 deaths. Still the government plans to ease entry restrictions for many foreign nationals next month. Health care workers and students with permission for mid or longterm residency will now be allowed the take up residencnce but theyll need to get tested and selfquarantine feen for 14 days on arrival. The rules for Business People in some countries have already been relaxed. Members of the International Olympic committees Coordination Team are holding two days of Virtual Meetings this week, assessing preparations for the tokyo games which have been postponed until next year. Nhk reports on how authorities are testing o out ways of holdi Sports Events amid the pandemic r reporter the ioc preside at the meeting whichch he attend virtually from switzerland. We have to make these Olympic Games fit for the postcorona world. Reporter whil they hammered out details on how to enter japan and compete safely. Sporting events of the country are providing a glimpse at how the games may look. Around 1,400 athletes faced off at one recent track and field competition. In the stands, there were checks in place to enforce social distancing. Ahead of the event, Staff Meetings were heldld in smaller groups, and afterwardsds, worke disinfected the entire stadium. Translator i hope this event will set an example to show that competitions can be held safely. Reporter in july, japanese pro baseball and soccer leagues started holding matches with up to 5,000 people in the stands. That limit was raised this month. They can now play in stadiums of half capacity. Organizers have installed some cameras at yokohama stadium, which will hold olympic baseball and softball events. Spectators with temperatures of 37. 5 degrees celsius or higher cannot enter. Workers also monitor the stands to make sure spepectators are Wearing Masks and arent cheering out loud. Translalator we can coopera to prevent the spread of the virus. I hopepe we can get ththrough i situation together. Repororter one Infectious Disease expert says even if f a vaccine arrives in time, i it would be almost impossible to bring covivid19 under controlo before the games. So antivirus measures wilill b key to holding the event. Translator in order for athletes and offfficials to participate in the competition, we need thorough testing to ensusure they y are noininfecte. For spectatotors, we need to create new ways of cheheering d to the coronavirus. Working together t to minimize e risks. Reporter japanese officials and organizers trying to drop up antivirus measures by the end of the year. That includes immigration controls for athletes and officials entering the country and measures at the village and olympic venues, nhk world. The head of the united natitions is urging National Leaders to accelerate decarbonization of the Global Economy amid the coronavirus pandemic. First we need sustainable covid19 recovery plans that echo climate change. Second, we need to protect our econonomies and societies s by acting in line with what science tells us, and third, we e must priorititize the most vulnerabl people i in the communities. Guterres hosted the online conference on thursday to coincide with a a series of speeches delivivered by y natio leadaders at the u u. N. General assembly. Participants included government leaders such as british Prime MinisterBoris Johnson and executives from Major Companies like microsoft. Both the european n union n and china got shoutouts from guterres who said he was encouraged by their recent announcements on cutting carbon emissions. He pushed for other countries to present action plans this year to help achieve the u. N. Targets of having emissions by 2030 and reaching net zero emissions by 2050. The u. N. Chief also appealed to governmements to stop susubsidi fossssil fuel industries and invest in jobs for the poorest communities instead. Some rather eyecatching structures are popping up in tokyo. The simple instagagramworthy designs are part of a plan to flush away misconceptions about Public Toilets. Nhk world went to see what all the fuss is about. Reporter a striking red building inspired by traditionol wrapping techniques; a squareshaped design that looks at home in a popular park. Each one came from the mind of a top japanese architect. Theyre all crereating them, bu these colorful stalls are drawing the most attention, even among people who dont the call of natature. Its very strange. Reporter it may seem risky to use these toilets, but step inside, close the door, lock it and you get the privacy you need. Reporter this smart glass is only with electrical current going through it. You wont be caught with your pants down even p the power goes out. He came up with the cheeky idea. The Award Winning architect is known around the world for his innovative designs. That buildings arent just made to look nice. Each has special meaning and this latest work is no exception. Translator before they go in, people worry that the toilets arent clean or that someone could be hiding inside. I wanted to use desesign too so the problems many Public Toilets ha have. Reporter addressing issues with project rest rooms is what unites the projects facilities. Atoro is also a world famous architect. He focused on making his design easy to access with a unique shape and structure that allows fresh air to flow through. Translator this Public Toilet may be small, but it conveys an important message. Reporter so far seven of these toilets have been installed in downtown tokyo with ten more on the way. The nonprorofit nippon f foundn saysys it wants the project t t change habits and minds. Translator these unique and advanced designs make the toilets accessible for everyone regardrdless of gender, age or ability. Ultimately it demonstrates the possibilities of an inclusive sociciety. Reporter everyonee involo hopess this effort to elevate te Public Toilet wont end here, but insteadad inspire better design throughout the world. Yamamoto saori, nhk world. Its time now for a check on the weather with our meteorologist jonathan oh. People in tokyo are going through a drizzly day to end the workweek. Jonathan, whats the weekend looking like . Hello. It looks like well be dealing with a little bit more in terms of rain for the eastern, northern portions of japan. Western areas may still be dealing with some clouds. At least the rain should be tapering off. We have a couple areas of low pressure, one moving from the west to the central portions of japan. Some areas like shikoku saw a few millimeters of rainfall in a few hours. The remnants of dolphin is a low pressure system still off the tohoku coastline and it continues to bring stronger winds and also some rain its going to take some time for both of these systems to just scoot out of the area. So for places like tokyo and also into sapporo, its going to be wet coming up on saturday and even through the weekend for tokyo into sunday. Eventually well see temperatures rebounding closer to normal and a little drier as well. Tokyo, wet on saturday with a high of 23. Wet again on sunday, and then finally on monday, well see a little more in terms of sun and highs will be in the mid 20s. Showers in sapporo for saturday and also into monday. Osaka and fukuoka will see more sunshine by the later part of the weekend. Down toward the south we have plenty of wet weather to talk about. That will bring rain into Congress Congress and high pie as we go through saturday. Temperatures will be ranging from 22234 chong chun into tie pie. Meanwhile, we go down toward argegentina where weweve been dealing with serious wildfires ininto the cordoba regionon. This giveses you an idea of the situationn on the ground as wildfires are out of control in the cordova province. 16,000 hectares of land has been burned in recent days. Firefighters trying to spray water near houses and dropping water from helicopters and airplanes, even controlled fires near a highway to prevent blazes from setting. We may be dealing with rain but theres also a chance for thunderstorms in cordoba as we go through the day friday. At least we still have a chance for rain in place. That should be helpful as we go through friday in trying to keep those fires at bay. Showers in surrounding areas as well from buenos aries over into santiago as we go through the day. Thats a look at your forecast. Hope you have a good day wherever you are. Thats all for now on this edition of nhk newsline. Im raja pradhan in tokyo. Coming up next is newsline biz with ramin mellegard. Dont go away. Shoppers in japan are turning away from traditional retail as the coronavirus continues to impact consumer behavior. Department store revenue fell 22 in august from the same period last year. The Japan Department store Association Reports sales at 203 outlets nationwidede were about 3 billion for the month. That represents a further year on year decline compared with july. The cancellation of many Summer Events contributed to the falling number of customers. Retailers are looking at ways to further promote online sales. This is newsline biz, im ramin mellegard. Japanese Telecommunications Company kddi is accelerating push into fifth Generation Mobile internet service. The operator says almost all hand sets except models for children and seniors w will be come pattal. Au phones currently connect to 5g in limited parts of japan. The company aims to expand the service to more areas increasing the number of base stations to 10,000 by next march and to 50,000 a year after. Kddi is opening a Concept Store in central tokyo on saturday. Visitors can see the benefits of 5gs super fast download speeds and data capabilities. The carriers competitors are also pouring investment into the technology with base stations under way across thehe country. Visitors to tokyo disney land will getet access to new attractions starting on monday. The opening of an area that includes a beauty in the beast section was delayed by about half a year due to the coronavirus pandemic. The theme parks operator oriental land, redeveloped 4700 square features of the site at tokyo bay at the cost of 710 million. Thats the largest investment since Tokyo Disneyland opepenedn 1983. The operator will introduce a new entry system f for the areao limimit crowds. Visitors can choose time slots on a Smartphone App once theyre inside the park. While the operator hopes the new section will b be a hit, its still l limiting visisitor numb to less than half the normal levels due to the virus. Officials in japan continue to relax travel restrictions for Foreign Residents making business trips easier for some parts of asia. Translator weve agreed to allow crossborder travel for longterm residents between japan and singapore from september 30th and between japan and brunei from october 8th. Until now, only japanese nationals were allowed to embark on shortterm business visits to singapore. Japan has already lifted reentry restrictions for Foreign Residents traveling from countries and territories where the coronavirus outbreak is largely contained. That includes malaysia and taiwan. Japans government plans to allow reentry for mid to longterm visa holders from almost everywhere in the world as early as next month. Strict testing and quarantine measures are in place. Its hoped that the relaxed travel rules will go some of the way to restoring the battered economy. A key price gauge for businesses in japan continue to fall in august. The cost of services such as transportation and accommodation dropped for the s sixth straigh monthh as Companies Continue to shun business travel. The bank of japan says the Services Producer price index fell 0. 8 in august from a year earlier. That excludes the effects of last years consusumption tax hike. The slide inn pricess accelerat for the first time in three months indicating a recovery is still not in sight. The cost of hotel stays plunged 38 , prices for domestic air tickets down 10 . Bank of japan Officials Say i say the outlook remains uncertain and will depend on the efforts to stem the coronavirus. Many Restaurant Owners are feeling the pinch as people stay away amid the coronavirus pandemic. As youll see in this next story, one unique solution has a benefit thats twofold. Not only does it help diners feel safe, it gets opportunities to more vulnerable members of society. Reporter at this burger chain in tokyo customers are being served up an unexpected side of entertainment. Diners receive their meals at the Cash Register nearby which is staffed with a person, the system aims to reduce the risk of infection by cutting down on human contact. But taking orders isnt the robots only important job. Reporter it also helps customers decide what to eat translator it totold me w it looked to eat. It felt as warm as a human, even though its a robot. This is because the robot is controlled by actual people who are working remotely. The robot isis allowing people with disabilitieies to work fro anywhere, providing employment opopportunities that are convenient as well as keeping the coronavirus at bay. The executive of the burger chain who promoted the robot project. He felt it was important to keep a human touch in customer interactions. Translatotor if we can prove Good Customer Service while social distancing, it will open up many new possibilities in the service sector. Heres the startup in tokyo that developed the robot. Customer feedback has given them a chance to plan for further improvements. At a recent meeting, they decided to add a sensor to quickly alert the robot to a customers arrival in response to the restaurants request for prompt service. The pandemic has not just put limits on our social lives. Instead, its creating opportunities to innovate that keep us connected. Okay. Lets get a check on the markets. Thats it for newsline biz from our tokyo stewed difficults. Im ramin mellegard. Thank you very much for joining us. Four wounded in a suspected knife attack in central paris. Police say the suspected attackers are on the run. It happened close to the former offices of the satirical mamagazine chaharlie hebdo, whee there was a terrorist attack five years agogo. Youre watching a special program here on france 24. We begegin with news of an incident in central paris. The Prime Minister has just confirmed four people have been