Okinawa, the iwakuni base and the misawa base. Japans Defense Ministry says it will continue to work with the u. S. In order to get more of the training sessions moved during the current fiscal year. In the fiscal year that ended in march, a total of 12 sessions were moved. The target was about 10. The first boat loads of migrants and refugees deported from greece arrived back in turkey. Its part of a deal between the European Union and turkey. The goal is to stop the flood of people reaching europe as they need from war and poverty. People were taken to western turkey on monday. Many are from pakistan and afghanistan. Under an agreement reached last month, turkey is to take back migrants and refugees who arrived march 20th or later. Fears are mounting among syrians who arrived in greece. Many think theyll be forcibly sent back to turkey. This woman arrived on the greek island ofletwo weeks ago. Translator we would rather die than being taken back to turkey. People continue to pour into greece. 339 newcomers landed on greek shores in the 24 hours leading up to monday morning. Iraq has been hit with a wave of explosions and attacks that killed at least 25 people and injured 60. Islamic state militants claimed responsibility for several of the bombings across the country. Reuters News Agency Reports a car loaded with explosives blew up monday morning in central basra, a major city in southern iraq. The attack killed at least five people. Around the same time, a restaurant in the city of nasaria was hit by a suicide bomb. A security checkpoint was also hit by an explosion. A total of seven explosions on monday. A website affiliated with Islamic State spoke of five attacks. It followed the launch of a major operation by Iraqi Government forces to retake the countrys second largest city of mosul from the militant group. It is time for the latest in business news. Japans ruling parties are aiming to pass bills related to the Transpacific Partnership free trade deal during the current diet session. We the tpp will require 95 of imported items. Political maneuver is heating up. Tell us more. Lower house lawmakers will be holding a question and answer session on the bills during a preliminary session onuesday. The ledgelatigislation will als include support for farmers. After that, they aim to start deliberating the tpp related bills at a special committee. But the opposition camp is asking for details on japanu. S. Negotiations before going on to the deliberation stage. Prime minister abe is scheduled to attend the q a session. Translator a thorough explanation is needed to address peoples concerns about the deal. We aim to lead efforts, to put the tpp pact into effect as soon as possible. But members of the Opposition Democratic Party are demanding disclosure of information before the special Committee Deliberations can begin. They want to know what the top negotiators of japan and the u. S. Talked about and details about what compromises were agreed. Two of the worlds leading companies, toyota motor and microsoft, are teaming up to collect big data with the aim of making driving more convenient. As a first step, they announced on monday theyve invested about 5 million to set up a new company in texas. Now, heres what is going to happen. The company will use microsofts Cloud Computing technology to gather data from japanese and u. S. Drivers who have agreed to cooperate. This will include information on traffic jams and Road Conditions and driving patterns. Then the company will use the data to provide real time information on traffic jams to drivers and to calculate insurance premiums. Now, toyota officials hope the joint venture will help improve their data services. They also plan to use the data to develop Artificial Intelligence technologies, essential for selfdriving cars. It is now time to check on the markets. To recap, u. S. Stocks ended lower as crude oil prices continued to fall. Investors remain cautious before the earning season kicks off. The dow jones was down 0. 3 . The nasdaq was down more than 0. 4 . Now lets see whats happening with tokyo stocks. Good morning. What are you seeing over there . Good morning. Stock investors look to be getting mixed signals. We have strong fundamentals, relatively strong. Yet we have a weak dollar. As you just touched on there, falling commodity prices. Painting a mixed picture. Lets see how the nikkei and topics ato topix are kicking off. 0. 81 from the nikkei is down. Were below the 16,000 level. Investors are in a mixed mood this week. Economic data from the u. S. And china need to be supportive. The cautious tone set by janet yellen at her speech last week looks to be really overshadows overall global sentiment. Thats led to dollar weakness. The nikkei has really suffered on the back of that, especially has investors bet that the Federal Reserve will be in no hurry to raise rates. Theyre selling the dollar against a mixed bag. Added to the somewhat negative sentiment is another move lower in crude oil prices. Youre looking at brent there. It went to the lowest level since early march. Many now have doubts whether Major Oil Producers can actually cut their production levels. On a positive note, japans liquor exports hit an alltime high for 2015. Whiskey and sake exports surging in europe and u. S. On pretty strong demand. Give us an update on how currency shares are trading. Theyre likely to influence earnings. Corporate earnings in japan with a strong yen, big issue. 111. 1417. Lets not forget, it was at 121 yen lefrl levels at the start o february. Then plummeted to 111 in the same month. Choppy session in march. Here we are, april 5th, at the lower 111 yen levels. The stronger yen will not help the bottom line of major japanese exporters, but at the same time, the weaker dollar should help u. S. Exporters. In the euro zone, rumbles in the greek sovereign dead markets have been a focus, after concerns over the countrys finances by leaked documents over the bailout. Lets look at some of the other indexes that are open right now across asia pacific. Australias index is lower. China markets will be back from a threeday weekend in about an hour and a half. Thats all for me. Back to you. Sounds good. Thanks a lot for that update. Just to remind you, the nikkei did dip below 16,000 at one point this morning. That was for the first time in a month. Hell be back in a few hours to let us know how the morning session ended. Moving on. Cutting Edge Technologies developed in japan have made their mark around the world. Now a group of researchers and entrepreneurs are bringing japanese high tech to a new arena. Nhk world has the report. Reporter event in tokyo grew people key on integrating technology with sport. They saw how a pair of how twowheeled vehicles can be used to race around an obstacle course. Another idea is modernday sumo wrestling that uses cushioned army and special footwear for extra high jumps. The events organizers work to help technology companies. Translator we aim to promote sports that merge whats known as cool japan pop culture and japanese high technology. Reporter this vehicle is modelled after chair yacriots, n ancient rome. The maximum speed is 35 kilometers per hour. A model built into the front wheel powers the vehicle. Its possible to attach a wheelchair so disabled people can also enjoy it. Two graduate students dreamed up the device. They used crowd funding to raise about 9,400 for the development costs. Translator our device lets people experience the fun of operating a vehicle and a feeling of speed. We want to develop a sport everybody can enjoy. Reporter while those are in the early stages, another event is already finding commercial success. In tokyo, you can put on augmented reality glasses and fight opponents. You can fight monsters created by computer graphics. Fire shoots out your arm. I hit them again reporter the Developers Say their game system could also be used for a new type of combat sport. They are fine tuning the functions. They hope to introduce a sport people will enjoy for a long time. Not a temporary fad. Translator we believe in sports that incorporate technology. We call it technosport. We want to help blaze the trail in the market. Ivity and hard work, people are finding new innovations for japans technologies. Tomoko, nhk world. Thats the latest in business. Philippine and u. S. Forces have teamed up for annual military drills near the disputed South China Sea. China has been increasingly active in the area in recent years, stirring anger in the philippines. About 8,000 soldiers are expected to take part in two weeks of drills. Theyll simulate retaking an oil and gas platform and an amph Amphibious Landing on a beach. Not part of the idea. Its more capacity. Building our capability to address warfare. We have to have the capability to make sure we have good coverage. So that Maritime Security involves active patrolling of the pihilippine navy, as well a what contributions can be made to the maritime effort. Reporter the u. S. Secretary of defense will arrive to supervise the exercises, the first to do so. Its at a time of heightened tensions. China reclaimed small islands and reefs and constructed port facilitie facilities. It claims almost all of the South China Sea as its own. Several asean countries have claims within the same area. The u. S. Government called on china to stop mill terrorite the rwaters. Warships sailed close to the islands to promote freedom of navigation. Japans selfdefense forces are also attending as observers. A submarine from japans selfdefense force made a stop in the philippine port for the first time in many years. Its a signal to china that japan plans to strengthen ties with the philippine navy. Aung san suu kyi has given up two of the cabinet posts but shes expected to gain more soon. Officials from the National League for Democracy Party say she stepped down in new ministers were approved for the vacant portportfolios. A new state adviser position would give Aung San Suu Kyi de facto control over policies. The bill is expected to pass into law this week. Almost a year passed since the first of several earthquakes that devastated nepal. The International Community responded with pledges of aid. Administrative wrangling has caused severe delays to reconstructi reconstruction. Nhk worlds tanaka reports. Reporter two massive tremors last april and may killed about 9,000 people and damaged 900,000 buildings. Many people are still living in makeshift shelters. Political squabbling has crippled politics. Its now complicating the earthquake recovery. Important state agencies oversee the reconstruction. The reconstruction authoritys chief said progress is being made. It takes time, it has taken time. We have started. We have to at least find out, search out, the office. We have made a lot of progress. Reporter but on the streets, disappointment is growing at the governments quake response. Translator evidently, the reconstruction work has made little progress. The government has been slow to respo respond. I cant trust the government. We need help from overseas. Reporter the International Community pledged some 4. 1 billion for reconstruction in nepal, but the agency head said only 30 has been approved so far. Donors worry the progress is insufficient. Translator nepal has a population of only 28 million. All sorts of donors have been sending personnel unmasked to nepal, including us, to help rebuild the country. However, i strongly feel nepal is still not prepared to accept all the foreign aid. Reporter he said he would quickly approve a planned 1800 subsidy for rebuilding homes. We have to focus on the housing reconstruction. Its very important. Its a need of the people. Reporter Staff Shortages are another problem. Some government officials are apparently reluctant to move to the Reconstruction Agency because of the intense work involved. Earthquake victims who struggled through the harsh, himalayan winter found many more challenges still to come. Nhk world, kathmandu. Jaxa engineers are trying to find out what happened to an xray satellite scircling the earth. U. S. Military officials monitoring space debris spotted ten objects near the satellite. Engineers lost communication with the satellite on march 26th. They believe it incurred internal damage and say the objects are likely to be from the satellite. They say it still may be partially functional. Theyve received brief signals from it after the trouble was identified. The space agency has asked the National Astronomical observatory of japan to use the subaru telescope in hawaii to take a closer look from the ground. The satellite was launched in february, designed to capture xrays that cant be detected on earth. It was hoped the data would help study black holes and other events. A new animated film dealing with disaster and loss is set to make its debut. Its a story people in japan know too well. The events of the 2011 tsunami, earthquake and nuclear accident. The creator asked survivors who participate in it instead of using actors. Reporter the film is called anguish. As a resident of hiroshima, he understood the suffering of people in fukushima as they dealt with disaster and the pain of losing people. People from the devastated town voiced the characters. The film grew from an earlier project. He created dozens of story board plays, telling the story of the disaster. He said the play showed support for people there. He noticed many survivors kept their feelings bottled up. He decided to create a film in which local people could participate and express themselves. Translator this animation is very different because the survivors have poured a whole range of their own feelings and memories into it. Reporter the film is based on a story told to fukumoto by a volunteer firefighter. On march 11th, 2011, a massive tsunami swept away about 600 houses on the coast. About 180 people from the town died or went missing. He rushed to the disaster zone, but he and his fellow rescuers were forced to stop the next day. The authorities imposed a nuclear evacuation order. Translator i feel so sorry for the people we couldnt rescue. Thats what i regret most. Reporter takano voices one of the firefighters in the film. He relives the search efforts through the characters. Takano also helped the voice actors. Translator he wanted to go back to the disaster zone but couldnt. Try to convey that frustration. Reporter by taking part in the film, survivors of the disaster could express the pain that still haunts them. Translator the actors are not pretending. You can feel this comes from their true experiences. Reporter people in fukushima saw the first screening. Over 100 citizens groups and other organizations in japan, and even from overseas, have plans to screen the film. The voices of the survivors are reaching far and wide. Lets now get a check of the weather. People in northern pakistan have been dealing with Severe Weather conditions, including flash flooding. At least 60 people have been killed. Meteorologist robert speta has the latest. Yes, we have been tracking this storm system, which really surged from the west. Now moving off toward the northeast. On our cloud cover, really where the brightest areas are in the white, and especially in northern pakistan, thats where the heaviest rain has been coming down. Thats where the high death toll has been reported. Some villages, over 30 people died. Over 60 in total. Numerous people have been injured, as well. This is the satellite rainfall. Upwards of 300 to 330 millimeters. This area of the world, you get heavy rainfall during the monsoon season, but this is the premonsoonal rain. Those often cause flash flooding. Lets show video out of this area, where you see the darker purples. Severe flooding that took place across much of this area. Many homes have also been destroyed. Numerous bridges have been washed out. You can see right there, definitely very dangerous for people trying to get from point a to point b. Theres another view of one of the bridges thats getting washed away. Look at the images in the aftermath here. You can see just people trying to get out and about. We have those boats going through here. Definitely very dangerous. But life must go on across this area, and it is definitely going to be an ongoing recovery effort as we go through the weeks to come. Look at the forecast. We still have precipitation in the higher elevations. Farther to the east there, across cashmere. We have the heavy rainfall in parts of northern pakistan. Really, that is going to be k s exasperating the situation. Eastern india, you have the precipitation wrapping around the himalayas. Youll be looking at more rainfall, as well. Lets look at japan, where we had the heavy rain kick in here on monday. Its really tapered off for the most part, as we go ahead into your tuesday. But for tokyo residents, youre going to be looking at cloudy skies. Maybe a lingering shower or two before things really taper off into your afternoon hours. For the most part, most of japan, definitely a good day to get out and enjoy the flower viewing. Definitely going to be much better before things start to change heading into the latter part of the week. We have another storm system developing in the southeastern locations of china. Its really going to bring heavy rainfall. The threat of flash flooding. It shifts to the east and brings the wide spread precipitation a across much of japan in wednesday afternoon and thursday. Tokyo, cloudy skies, high of 15. The sun is getting blocked out. Seoul, high of 19 and showers there in shanghai and also chongqing. Toward the south, talking about summer into fall here across australia. You have a potent cold front ushering that in. Heading through southern areas near victoria. Itll bring precipitation. Ahead of it, it has the strong winds, bringing warmer temperatures for those of you in sydney. The antarctic air mass will move in. 29 by wednesday. Dropping down to 24 by thursday. Look at melbourne, 29 all the way down to 17 heading into wednesday. Wrapping quickly up in europe, really in the western half of the continent, youll be looking at the rough weather. Threat of stronger thunderstorms flaring up here. Toward the east, you have dust in the possible. Temperatures are above average. Rome, up 24 here on tuesday. Heres your extended outlook. That wraps up this edition of nhk newsline. Im Catherine Kobayashi in tokyo. Thanks for joining us. Greetings from berlin and welcome to our highlights edition, which shapes up this time around with the following top stories. Austrian eva walkner is one of the worlds best freeriders. Instaminiseries are an up and short and sweet coming way to , use video on the internet. Digital innovations revolutionize the tourism industry. And we start off with a female athlete with guts to spare, eva walkner of austria. She is both a sports journalist and a professional freerider, which means she spends most of her time skiing offpiste, and