They did not give details about the location of the air strikes. They reported they took place in the northern syrian city and major strong hold of Islamic State. Public demand for retaliation against Islamic State has been mounting many jordan. In the capital a rally was held to comemorial service rate the pilots death. Citizens demand the Islamic State militant group be destroyed. We are not afraid of Islamic State militants. We will win. Absolutely. Jordan should go all out against Islamic State. Meanwhile in washington a u. S. State Department Spokesperson welcomed jordans resumption of attacks on Islamic State. Jordan which suffered this horrible loss themselves is not only clearly comfortable continuing to fly missions which shows the strength of the coalition and intensified efforts and doubled down on their commitment to defeat isil. King abdullah attended the funeral. The service for the air force pilot took place in his hometown in central jordan. The king met his relatives for the First Time Since his murder became apparent. The monarch expressed its condolences and said the pilots name will be inscribed in the hearts of all jordanians. He pledged retaliation to protect his countrys religion homeland, and people. The u. S. President has called Islamic State a brutal vicious death cult. It carries out unspeakable names in the name of religion. We have seen violence and terror perpetrated by those that process to stand up for faith. Their faith. Profess to stand up for islam but, in fact are portraying it. Obama was speaking at a meeting of leaders in washington. Theyre terrorizing religion my noir tirs and raping women and claims it has religious authority for such actions. Lawmakers in japan are taking action after the militants said they killed two japanese hostages. Members unanimously adopted an antiterror resolution condemning the killings. They condemned the killings by apparent Islamic State militants. They described the murders as atrocheous acts of terrorism. They can never be justified for whatever reason and purpose. The governments top spokesperson says that japan will keep fighting terrorism and do what it takes to ensure the safety of japanese in other countries. Translator we will continue to residence lutly fulfill our Community Fighting terrorism based on public understanding of support. Members of the upper house are expected to adopt a similar resolution on friday. U. S. Secretary john kerry has taken action to achieve piece in ukraine. They agreed on a truce in september but fighting has become more intense since early january. The United Nations says 224 people were killed in the three weeks to february 1st. Kerry met ukrainian president poroshenko in kiev on thursday. Kerry says russia must show its committed to resolving the conflict through diplomacy. There must be an immediate commitment now to a real cease fire which is not just a piece of paper and words but followed up by specific actions. Kerry says military aid to the separatists should end and he says moscow must with draw and pull back troops and weapons from ukraine. The head of a European Monitoring Mission to ukraine says the situation in the countries a east has deteriorated seriously. He says the organization for security and cooperation in europe plans to send another 100 monitors to the region by the end of the month. That will bring the total number to 500. Neither are adhering to a cease fire. He says they have repeatedly clashed. Taiwans president has told aviation officials to boost safety measures. Authorities continue to search for those still missing following a plane crash on wednesday. He went to the hospital to talk to survivors. He talked with family members. Authorities will do everything they can to find those still missing. He says he has ordered officials to increase aviation safety to avoid scaring tourists. A transasia plane crashed into a river shortly after taking off. It was carrying 58 passengers and crew members. 31 people are confirmed dead. 12 are missing. People in taiwan are becoming more concerned about aircraft safety. 48 people died last july in a failed landing attempt by a similar plane. Japanese officials plan to take a tougher line on people that profit from stolen trade secrets. Were joined now and these things are illegal but what brought on the tougher punishments . Theres been a few instances recently where intellectual property owned by Japanese Companies has been leaked to foreign competitors. People want to protect japanese industry and maintain companys competitiveness so officials at the ministry of economy, trade, and industry say they will roll out harsher penalties. The measures would allow authorities to seize corporate profits earned on data or technologies that were obtained with the knowledge they had been leaked. Also targeted would be payments received by individuals in exchange for leaking company secrets. The law imposes a maximum penalty of 300 million qenyen. Thats around 2. 5 million. U. S. Courts plan to handout tougher penalties. In one case a court seized profits totaling 25 million from a Company Executive involved in a data leak. The Ministry Officials are now working out the details. One task is to come up with a method to calculate the illegally obtained profits. They plan to submit bills to the current session of the diet. Now the move follows a series of leaks overseas of Japanese Companies technologies and trade secrets. It was made public last year that an engineer had stolen Research Data on semiconductors and passed it to a south korean firm japan has one of the oldest populations and the Social Security system is feeling the strain. Health Ministry Officials say the total amount of medical insurance payments to the elderly has hit a record high. Officials say the medical insurance payments to people age 75 years and older marked a record 111. 5 billion for fiscal 2014. Thats up about 3. 8 billion from the previous period. The medical insurance system is managed by local governments and the program currently covers about 16 million people. Premiums account for 10 of the payments. 40 comes out of employees Health Insurance funded by people currently working. Central and local governments make up for the remaining 50 . Now the amount taken from employees Health Insurance that went to the elderly rose to about 47 billion for fiscal 2014. Thats up about 1. 6 billion. Now these figures are expected to rise. The Health Ministry plans to review a set of benefits from low income elderly. Currently that group is eligible for cuts on their premiums by up to 90 . The International Monitoring fund has a new director. He previously worked at japans ministry of finance. His new appointment makes him the third highest ranking official at the imf. The managing director says she welcomes the return of him to the fund where he also worked for two years from 2010. He was an advisor to Prime Minister abe since last year. Before that he served in several posts at the finance ministry. He fills the position to be vacated by him whose five year term ends this month. He gets to work march 2nd. People who run guest houses across japan are seeing more and more Foreign Tourists come to their cities. Theyre competing to attract visitors with a range of new services. The manager of one guest house in tokyo is offering his customers an authentic taste of daily japanese life. Although its small it has a good rep you lags thanks to internet and word of mouth. Foreigners have stayed here. The secret behind its popularity is an original service, the owner thought of himself. Ill take you to the place. Reporter the Service Allows visitors to experience the life of ordinary japanese by exploring the neighborhood around the guest house. On this day the owner had guests from five countries and territories including germany and hong kong. He took them to a local shopping street. The kind of place few Foreign Tourists visit. The tourists showed an interest in a japanese style rice cracker store thats been in business for more than 100 years. Some of the items caught their eye and soy sauce. An event was being held at a local park to celebrate the new year using a wooden mallet the locals are pounding rice. The japanese tradition in rice cake are used to celebrate special occasions. Rice pounding is an age old japanese event but its not something visitors are likely to see at the places they usually visit. The tourists took part themselves encouraged by the locals. Pounding the rice makes it stickier. This is their First Experience to ask fresh rice cakes. Its really great. Really delicious. Its better than the ones you see. In the evening he took one of his guests to a public bath. He gives the guest an instruction sheet he prepared himself and explains the proper manners. Always towel, keep it with you. Okay. You dont, you know put in the bath. You are not allowed to wear swim suits. The water is kept at 41 degrees celsius. The temperature most popular among japanese people. Its so relaxing. These days japanese houses are in bathrooms. They still like to visit. Translator foreigners are impressed by things they cant see at the usual tourist spots. I think visiting local kmun communities and seeing ordinary People Living their every day lives is another form of site seeing. More and more foreigners are viz visiting japan these days. Efforts are being made to utilize charms of the country that the tourist industry long overlooked. Now lets check on markets. Investors were happy to see that crude oil prices bounced back. The benchmark u. S. Crude regained the 50 mark just one day after plunging to the 48 level. Stocks then rallied overnight on wall street and investors here in tokyo are following the trend. The nikkei is trading higher by. 75 from thirds close. Oil related companies are especially higher. Theyre moving in a narrow range this morning. Ahead of the u. S. Jobs data today. The euro is trading higher against the dollar and against the yen. Traders are speculating the greek government may have to tone down its demands to its creditors. Looking at other markets in the asia specific trading lower by a touch this morning. In australia the benchmark index is trading just a bit higher. So were seeing a bit of a mixed picture in the asia pacific. Ill be back with more of your headlines. Heres a look at other markets. Japanese lawmakers have been struggling to find a way to reverse the countrys population problem. Deaths are out pacing births and more and more women are putting off having children. Now officials in a city near tokyo are helping them extend their child bearing years. Reporter officials want to offer women some options for future pregnancies. They are ready to launch an initiative allowing them to freeze and store their legs. The plan could go ahead as early as april if the City Assembly approves the necessary budget. I probably wont be able to start a family until im in my 30s because i will be working. I dont think its wrong to harvest eggs at a young age. I wonder what i will do. It wont be an easy decision. In the past only married couples end up going for fertility treatments were allowed to freeze eggs. Two years ago the procedure was extended to healthy and married women its the first japanese city to back such a scheme. The plan targets women age 20 to about 35 who live in the city. Local authorities will team up with the University Hospital to run the program. They will have their eggs harvested and frozen at the hospital. The city will have the cost of preserving the eggs as well as the procedure. The women will only pay about 30 of the total costs. The mayor says they are trying to help solve the lower birth rate by creating match making opportunities and offering more support services for pregnant women. Translator a lack of social support is hindering child birth and child rearing. Therefore its necessary to help young women store eggs when theyre healthiest so they can give birth when theyre ready. Reporter but there are down sides. Frozen eggs can suffer damage when theyre being thawed pregnancy is not guarentees and the young eggs dont reduce the risks for older women and their fetuses. Japanese women face another hurdle. A chronic shortage of daycare spaces. Many mothers have to quit their jobs. Some companies are finding ways to hold on to valuable employees. This Daycare Center is operated by a major cosmetics company. It looks after the children of employees that couldnt secure a spot at a licensed facility. Translator i came to the point where i thought i would have to quit my job and i didnt know what to do. When i learned about this place i realized id be able to go back to work without having to worry. Reporter operating a daycare facility requires qualified staff so its expensive. Here it costs hundreds of thousands of dollars per year. Its feasible for a Major Company but not so for most of japans corporate world. That leaves the majority of working parents to struggle on their own. North of tokyo its spear heading a new concept. Its making Space Available for small and medium sized businesses to run Daycare Centers jointly. Among the companies benefitting from the scheme is this beauty salon. Several employees had been forced to quit to take care of their children. They had a privileged relationship with their customers so we took a heavy hit after they left. Things are improving. She gave birth to a little boy last june. Thanks to the Daycare Center she was able to return to work four months later to the delight of her customers [ speaking Foreign Language ] reporter even when shared operating costs remain a burden for Small Businesses but theyre well worth it when it comes to retaining a valuable employee. Translator i think this kind of daycare facility has a real potential. It could help many more working women. Reporter for many others like her, the Daycare Center is not just a temporary lifeline. Its also the promise of a Better Future for the family. The International OlympicCommittee Plans to decide on events for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics just before the rio games next year. The ioc endorsed a proposal in december that allows the host city to propose additional events for the games. Chairman of the iocs Coordination Commission made the announcement on thursday following a meeting with the Tokyo Organizing Committee. They are required to propose their additional events to us by september. Those proposals endorsed by the ioc executive board will go to the ioc session. The ioc session for determination next year. He suggested additional events would be chosen paced on cost selection. The number of participating nations and territories as well as the balance between male and female athletes. The Tokyo Organizing Committee chief said a panel of seven experts will meet next monday and begin narrowing down the number of candidate events in time for the september deadline. Its time now for a check of the weather. People in some areas of southeast africa are seeing heavy rains and severe floods. Flooding downpours have been continuing across southeastern africa. Its not the first time they have been getting hit but the severe flooding conditions. Now we have a Tropical Development near madagascar and thats posing threat for flooding there as well. I want to first show off start off with pictures coming from these areas. Severe floods have an impact to the southeastern african country forcing thousands from their homes. Based on reports at least 79 people have died in floods over the past several weeks and 170,000 have been displaced. A state of emergency has been issued and foreign aid has been arriving in the form of emergency containing basic Survival Gear but the conditions are far from ideal. Unicef said 350,000 children are in desperate need and at risk of diseases caused by stagnant water. Unfortunately the Tropical Development could become a Tropical Storm as it makes its way toward madagascar. So the western flank of this island will be under the threat of floods but as you can see its sultill surging a lot of the moisture and thats likely to continue again, with strong gusts as well. So the situation could get worse. Now here across japan, the low pressure system responsible for the light snow across central tokyo is going to be behind the winter pressure pattern. It was an alternative. Rain and snow made it for icy conditions. The roads are still very slippery. But well start to see the warm up in the temperatures and the icy Road Conditions looks like it will be on the improvement. To the bigger picture, High Pressure system is predominant making for some hazy conditions across northern and eastern china down toward the south. Low pressure low temperature alerts are still in store for you in and around taiwan. Tokyo finally making it back to the double digits on our friday. Now here across the west the pacific northwest, northwestern california, these are the areas where the Drought Conditions have been prevailing so some beneficial. Too much rain will cause flash floods and the tropical moisture will be creating 250 millimeters of flooding rainfall. Thats likely to be accompanied with gusts up to 120 Kilometers Per Hour. So Stormy Weather will be continuing throughout your weekend. Now across the bigger picture, eastern areas looking quite chilly. New york just at minus 3 degrees. Toronto just at minus 4. Out here across europe now, a quick look across these areas. As you can see the spirally clouds still lingering. Heavy snowfall in northern italy up to about 60 centimeters is still likely and gusts could reach 165 Kilometers Per Hour. We have a report of 185 Kilometers Per Hour across these areas. Thats likely to continue and the avalanche risk is still very high. These are your temperatures. Looking like High Pressure system is predom nanltinant in stockholm. Ill leave you now for your extended forecast. Thats all for this edition of newsline. Thanks for joining us. This is guijie street beijings Largest Gourmet district. More than 100 eat ris and bars line the 700