Countries at war in conflict. The air strike killed 22 aid workers in a northern air gan city of kunduz. 12 others were injured. Msf wants to mobilize the humanitarian Factfinding Commission to probe the attack. The commission was created in 1991 after the gulf war, but has never been deployed. The top u. S. Commander in afghanistan admitted during a Senate Hearing that the attack was an error. To be clear, the decision to provide aerial fires was a u. S. Decision made within the u. S. Chain of command. A hospital was mistakenly struck. We would never intentionally target a protected medical facility. U. S. President barack obama tell us the International Precedence of msf. White house officials said obama apologized and offered his condolences. He made a commitment to find out what went wrong and said he would find ways to prevent a similar occurrence. Russian military Officials Say theyve stebed up an offensive in syria against militants with the Islamic States. Its the first attack from sea since they began their campaign late last month. Defense minister Sergei Shoigu briefed Vladimir Putin in the Southern City of sochi. Four war ships fired at Islamic State targets. 11 facilities belonging to a militant group and al qaeda syrian affiliate were destroyed and he says the missiles flew through iranian and iraqi airspace. The u. S. And other countries criticized russias escalating military involvement in syria. They say the targets include westernbacked rebels. U. S. Defense secretary ash carter said russias strategy in syria is tragically flawed. He says despite what russia says, the u. S. Has not agreed to cooperate so long as they continue to pursue their campaign. Japans top diplomat is set to resumed stalled talks with russia on a bilateral peace treaty. Deputy foreign minister Shinsuke Sugiyama began a threeday visit to moscow on wednesday. Sugiyama is to meet with his russian counterpart in moscow for the first vice foreign ministerial level talks between the countries in about 20 months. Sugiyama is to discuss the territorial issue over four islands controlled by russia. Japan claims them. The japanese government says the islands were illegally occupied after world war ii. Sugiyama hopes to move discussions forward based on a joint Statement Issued by shinzo abe and russian president putin in april, 2013. The statement said the leaders had agreed to proceed with negotiations toward a peace treaty and try to find a mutually acceptable solution. Sugiyama wants to pave the way for a visit to japan by putin later this year. Sugiyama says it comes as western nations have grown increasingly wary of japans dialogue in russia which supports syrias president bashar al assad. Japans Prime Minister shinzo abe has shuffled his political deck and brought in some new members into the cabinet. He says theyll put top priority on the economy and compile a package of measures for building a society where all people can be active. Translator a new team is a cabinet that will be able to tackle all future challenges, and we will pave the way for a society for the nations 100 Million People can be active. Abe says he has built a firm and strong team to pursue three major goals. He wants to increase japans gdp to 600 trillion yen or about 5 trillion, raise the fertility rate to 1. 8 births per woman and help all workers who are providing nursing care keep their jobs. Abe has added some fresh faces to his team, but hes leaving key ministers in their posts. In all, he is retaining in nine, bringing in nine firsttimers and welcoming one returning minister. His lineup also includes three women. Deputy chief cabinet secretary Katsunobo Kato is taking up a new post and hes a minister for womens empowerment. A former professional wrestler and the Ruling Liberal Democratic PartyPublic Relations chief is another new face in the reshuffle. Hiroshi hase takes on the Education Culture sports, science and technology portfolio. The new minister of agriculture, forestry and fishery is hiroshi. The new environment is Tamayo Marukawa for health, welfare and labor in the upper house. Abes key cabinet members are remaining in their posts. They include deputy finance minister taro asso and Fumio Kishida and Yoshihide Suga and internal affairs and Communications Minister sanae tack achy. They have welcomed Prime Minister abes new cabinet. We expect our close cooperation with the government of japan across a range of regional and global issues will continue to deepen. The spokesperson added the u. S. Government is looking forward to strengthen relations with japan for asia and around the world. Its time to get Business News. Thank you very much, catherine. Figures just out of the Cabinet Office gave us a hint of how Company Managers are viewing japans economic prospects. The people of Japanese Companies have been spending less on upgrading their equipment and facilities. The ministry Officials Say companies placed orders worth about 6. 3 billion in august. The machinery orders fell 5. 7 in yen terms from the months before. Thats the Third Straight month of decline. The numbers dont include the shipbuilding and power sectors which tend to see large fluctuations. Manufacturers cut back by 3. 2 on their upgrades. Improvements by nonmanufacturers fell 6. 1 . Japanese officials have also released the latest data on the current account. The balance for august remain in the black for the 14th straight month. Finance ministry Officials Say the surplus in august came in at about 13. 8 billion. Trade deficit was 2. 7 billion. Exports rose 3. 6 in yen terms from a year ago. Imports decreased 4. 9 . Returns on overseas investments grew. The primary income account shows how much japan earns from its Foreign Investments and this shows a surplus of over 17 billion. Now time to check on the markets. Lets go to maru yoshida and shes standing by at the tokyo stock exchange. Machine reorders fell and how are all these playing into the Market Action . Good morning, ramin. Machine reorders came in far below analysts and most analysts were expecting japan the japanese economy might be slipping into recession. Lets take a look at the opening levels here in tokyo on this thursday october 8th. Both the nikkei and the topix is opening with 18,267 and both indices snapped their winning streak and were likely to see profit taking that may cap gains today and now that the bank of japan has kept its easing policy unchanged. After the markets closed yesterday bank of japan governor expressed confidence in japans economic prospects and according to data compiled before his News Conference about 50 of the polled economists speculated additional easing at the bojs next meeting in three weeks. However, some analysts i spoke to after the News Conference said the numbers of such respondents fell after the News Conference. Although some are still speculating easing at the bojs meeting on october 30th, others think that the easing will take place next year and we may see more mixed opinions especially after the disappointing machinery orders and even so boj policymakers will have more time to assess what their counterparts at the u. S. Fed are planning. As you know, there is a strong chance the feds rate hike is now on hold until 2016 after the disappointing jobs report last friday. So over in new york, the u. S. Stocks picked up steam again. The dow closed up. 75 on friday while the techheavy nasdaq rose. 1 . Were actually seeing rallies in other Global Markets so far this month. European markets are higher and asian markets are joining the global rally as well, ramin. So mayu, upbeat sentiments in the u. S. There. Whats behind that other than, of course, the possible delay in the feds rate hike . Right. Right. Ramin, the dollar is pulling back as we head into the earnings season in the u. S. The greenback was above 121 yen a month ago and 125 yen two months ago and now the dollar yen is around 119. 84. Its edging down especially after the economic data. Meanwhile, the euro edged lower after downbeat Industrial Production data overnight. A quick look at other regional benchmarks open at this hour. 75 and the kospi is up. 6 . China will be back from its weeklong holiday and while chinese investors were away the asian markets were higher and commodities were higher so there is a fair chance that we may see a positive reopen in china. Thats it for me. Back to you. We have a lot of catching up to you. That was mayu yoshida reporting live from the tokyo stock exchange. Companies and Financial Institutions around the globe are making more of their payments in the chinese currency. The yuan became the fourth most used currency for trade and other International Settlements in august overtaking the japanese yen for the first time. Global Transaction Services organization swift said the chinese currency changed hands in 2 point 79 of all global trade and investment deals. Thats slightly higher than yen payments at 2. 76 . The u. S. Dollar ranked first used for 44. 82 of pages followed by the euro at 27. 2 and the british pound at 8. 45 . Chinese authorities are gradually easing their currencys international presence. The yuan will grow as the stz of chinas economy and trade volumes increase. Japans workplace is diversifying. More companies are hiring elderly employees and working mothers. Thats creating challenges for managers looking to keep staff happy in a Competitive Labor market. In part two of our series on workplace benefits, we look at companies who found that the road to better morale starts with better listening. Suniko suzuki is one of the veterans at the bank in fukushima prefecture. The 60yearold clerk often handles housing loans. This year suzuki took more leave than usual. She spent nine days at her daughters home. The bank has introduced a system called grandchild care leave. Suzuki took advantage of the new perk to help her daughter care for three infants. Translator its fun. Child care occupies my time, but thats something worth doing. Two years ago the bank extended its retirement age to 70. Management needs Older Workers to train younger staff and also help deal with the aftermath of the 2011 quake and tsunami. To keep them on the payroll, the bank decided it needed to offer more worker benefits. That led to the new leave system. Staff can apply for up to 120 days off work to take care of grandchildren. So far, four people including suk uky have taken up the offer. Translator more people will apply for leave once we get a system of support in place to fill in for their absence. More companies are starting to offer child care benefits. This Web Advertising Firm is one of them. The push for change came from its 1,000 employees. Twice a year, the Company Holds an event called the childrens board of directors meeting. It gives a chance for family members to speak out. Translator i want my father to come to parents day at schools. Id like my husband to help our children take a bath. And it seems managers have been listening. Theyve expanded benefits. One allows employees to leave the office for brief periods to look after family chores. Others include child care leave and babysitting allowance. The benefits made it easier for this member of Human Resources to return from maternity leave. Translator i really wanted to return to work after taking maternity leave. A good benefit system gives employees a sense of security the new benefits cost the company an extra 16,000 a year, but the boost to staff morale makes it money well spent. Translator we want staff with children and those with long Work Experience to continue working for us otherwise we wont be able to survive the competition. Japans societiy is changing. If bosses want to hold on to their workers they need to ensure the Office Environment adapts to the changes taking place at homes. And thats it for Business News for this hour, but ill leave you with a check on the markets. A Record Number of japanese households are receiving Welfare Benefits mainly due to an increase in welfare recipients. Half those households included people ages 65 or older. Japans Labor Ministry says 6. 63 million households received benefits in july, thats 3,000 more than in the previous month. Households of those age 65 or older on welfare increased by more than 2,000 to 798,000. Ministry officials expect the number of single elderly people on welfare to continue to rise. At the end of world war ii thousands of japanese women and children were left stranded in manchuria in northeast china. Many perished and others endured years of hardship before returning to japan, but for one war orphan, china became home. Matsaru takagi explains why. Reporter Koichi Watanabe is taking a journey with his wife. He recently turned 80 and hes been reflecting back on his life. Translator i remember a lot of things, regrettable things, painful things. Reporter watanabe lives in beijing and has a chinese name. He has come to the province where he lived with his japanese family during the war. This is the first time he has returned. It was formerly a part of manchuria. Watanabe was 5 years old when he arrived with a group of settlers from japan. His parents worked very hard to create their land. They finally saved enough money to buy horses and cows, then their lives took a devastating turn. His father was drafted into the japanese army. He later went missing. Soon after, russian soldiers killed his mother. He and his siblings were separated. A chinese couple took watanabe in and later adopted him. He says they raised him as if he was their own child. They helped me when i had nowhere to go. They took very good care of me. I remember everything. Japan and china restored diplomatic relations in 1972. Cat n watanabe could have returned to his home country, but he couldnt leave his foster mother who had been disabled by a stroke and he decided to remain in china. Now hes back where it all started. Hes heading where he and his family suffered such hardship. The fields are filled with corn. Long hills can be seen in the distance. It looks just like it did 70 years ago. A path lands through the field. Its the same path watanabe took to school every day. Translator its been 70 years. It brings back memories of my childhood. I walked on this path when i was young. Its changed a bit. But the old houses are gone and so are the japanese families who lived in them. These days there are only Chinese People in this area. Translator we japanese should not have come here, but chinas land and people made it possible for me to live. I pray for my heart there will never again be fighting between japan and china. The memories are painful, but watanabe fears what will happen if people forget. He wants to see peace endure. Masru takagi, nhk world. Its time now for a check of the weather. People in northern japan are getting to work this morning against strong gusts. Meteorologist robert speta joins us with more. What we have going on is actually once a tropical system, a severe tropical storm, actually, but were really seeing that transition as this does move off toward the north and what i mean by all that is take a look at the satellite imagery and look at hokkaido and definitely the winds continue to kick up and down toward the south is a fairly organized system neartyphoon intensity and you see it disperses out and it interacts with the upper level jets over the westerly to the northern latitude and this is just a big stream of air and you can see it right here it kind of blows it out luke a candle and it expands up the wind field. By no means does that weaken a storm system, but it makes that wind field much longer. Right now in the center of this and expanding out from it are 108 kilometerperhour sustained wins and the galeforce winds are here and this expands out. You are seeing breezy conditions and where people are really being impacted and traveling at the very least and at least 100 flights have been cancel side out here toward hokkaido and lets go to video that we have of northeastern hokkaido. Look at that. The Winds Continuing to kick up these blinding rains and extremely strong gusts. Poor bird right there just trying to fly toward the coast and in this area, winds upward of 184 Kilometers Per Hour have been observed. Theyre advising residents to be aware of high waves and high tide which is going to occur in the afternoon due to the threat of the incoming winds and high tide there could be the threat of storm surge. We see that in the same location last year from a strong winter storm that came through. So very potent indeed, as this does continue to track off here and actually across most of hokkai hokkaido, we can see winds upwards of 162 Kilometers Per Hour and not to mention the waves and 9 meters high and very well possible toward the coast and weve been seeing waves upward of 8 meters down near the tohoku region and 108 Kilometers Per Hour and not a fullblown typhoon and at the very least its a potent storm system that will not be venturing around outside and if i can help it off there. Back toward the west we do have a storm moving through northeastern china. This one is more winterlike, actually and it has snowfall across parts of mongolia extending toward northeastern china and with that well see a cold surge set up by the end of the week and bring some breezy conditions down toward taiwan and Northern Areas of the philippines. Temperatures definitely dropping and ulan bator just 6 there for your high and sunny skies at the very least on your thursday. Meanwhile, back toward here. I did mention tokyo, and i mentioned they have breezy condition, but there will be sunny weather throughout the day and the dry air wrapping around the storm system. Over towards europe we do have a low pressure area just off the coast of the British Isles and thats moving into the Scandinavian Peninsula and well bring rough weather for you as we go through the next 24 hours and very windy conditions coming near there and down toward the south, i want to key in on this because every time we talk about a storm in the Eastern Mediterranean well take the factor, as well. The refugee crisis outdoors and in unsheltered areas and the storm brought severe flooding to france earlier this week and strong wind gusts 50 to 70 millimeters as possible and also water spouts have been reported from this across the areas. Something to keep in mind as we go ahead through the next several days. Ill leave you now with your extended outlook. We have one more story to share with you before we go. People in tokyo are flocking to a theater to watch a Japanese Comic series come to life onstage. The ckabuki play is adapted fro the popular manga one piece. [ speaking Foreign Language ] kabuki star has turned the manga series into a super kabuki performance. It combines traditional acting with modern technology. One piece is about a boy called lose whoa wants to be a pirate king, and the play displays him and two other characters. On opening day, members of the audience applauded the mix of innovation and tradition. The show will be performed until late next month. Thats all for this edition of newsline. Im Catherine Kobayashi in tokyo. Thanks for joining us. Dr. Lekutat hello and welcome to in good shape here on dw. As always weve got plenty of interesting topics for you on the program today. Heres a look at whats coming up outdoor gym how to turn a pulic park into a fitness studio. On stage how performers can learn to overcome panic attacks. And in the know why men should Pay Attention to their prostates. But well first turn our attention to a topic thats currently making headlines around the world. Thousands of people are leaving conflict areas and making their