Frozen in response to alleged involvement in illegal commercial activities to earn foreign currency. The resolution also calls on Member States to reduce the number of north korean diplomats staying in their countries. Diplomatic sources say once fully implemented, the new sanctions will likely cut north koreas trade revenue by 800 million or nearly 25 . The question remains just how much impact these steps will have in preventing the norths nuclear and missile development. The japanese government is moving to expand its own sanctions on north korea. Officials plan to widen the reentry ban on north korean officials residing in japan who left the country to visit the north. The ban will also apply to foreign engineers with expertise in nuclear and missile technology. The resolution will target more individuals and entities related to the norths nuclear and missile programs through an asset freeze. Theyll include a Chinese Organization that was sanctioned in september by the u. S. Lets take a look at the latest business headlines. Members of the organization of the Petroleum Exporting countries have struck a landmark deal in vienna, theyre hoping to stem falling oil prices. Ai uchida joins us now from the business desk. Tell us what we need to know. They agreed to cut the production of oil and all the details. As you mentioned the idea is to decrease supply, increase demand and raise prices. This output cap marks the first since december 2008. Thats when the need for crude oil weakened amid the Global Economic slump. With the cooperation and understanding of all member countries, we have been able to reach an agreement. The cap on overall output will be cut to 32. 5 Million Barrels per day, that is a reduction of 1. 2 Million Barrels. This will start in january and last for six months. Opecs top producer, saudi arabia, accepted a big hit in its production and iraq also agreed on a cut. Iran will be allowed to boost production, tehran has argued it needs to regain market share lost under western sanctions. Russias Energy Minister says he welcomes the agreement, calling it a crucial step for the worlds oil industry. Alexander novak indicated his government will accept opecs call for non members to tighten their taps adding that moscow will reduce its daily output by 300,000 barrels in phases. Opec will hold a meeting with the non members next week. Experts are speculating on how the opec agreement could affect japans consumers and the economy. They say Higher Crude Oil prices would make gasoline and kerosene more expensive. That would put a heavier financial burden on house aehol and dampen consumer spending. It would hurt small businesses, fishermen and farmers could be affected from higher costs of fuel but the experts also say Higher Oil Prices could help lift japan out of deflation. The trend may raise Consumer Prices generating some inflation. After the announcement from opec, the benchmark Wti Crude Oil futures briefly jumped to the upper 49 a barrel level, which is a 10 rise almost from tuesdays close. The wti has reached the highest level since october. In asian trading hours, it is holding firm at that range currently trading at 49. 26. Meanwhile, brent crude futures broke above 50 a barrel. Investors here in tokyo are are riding the Higher Oil Prices and nikkei average surged straight from the open. The index is now trading up by 1. 7 , a jump at the nikkei trading at the highest level since january 4th. Investors are buying a wide range of shares. Oil developers and distributors in particular are soaring. Major exporters are higher on a weaker yen. Lets take a look at currencies now. The dollar has topped 114 yen for the first time in more than eight months. Analysts say investors regained their Risk Appetite on the opec agreement and are selling safer assets like the yen. The size of opec production limit was a positive surprise for traders. Solid Economic Data out of the u. S. Is driving the dollar higher. The adp private payroll report in november came in stronger than expected. All right. Lets take a look at other markets open at this hour. We are seeing a mixed picture. Seoul just a touch in the negative. Australia higher by half a percent. China will open in just under half an hour. The u. S. Federal reserve says in a report the economy has continued to expand in most regions. Financial Market Players widely expect the fed will decide on its first rate hike in a year at a policy meeting this month. The fed has released its latest beige book based on surveys on business conducted. Thats business conducted in its 12 districts. The report says a majority of the districts reported tighter labor markets and higher retail sales, especially for apparel and furniture from early october to midnovember. Businesspeople in some districts said they are worried that the stronger dollar will hurt exports. Still, the Economic Outlook was mainly positive. Thats the latest from me this hour. Its back to catherine now. Thanks very much, ai. We take you to south korea now where opposition parties there have found another reason to insist the president should be impeached. Theyve been attacking park geunhye over an influencepeddling scandal. Now theyre bringing up her handling of a ferry disaster from more than two years ago. Park has said, she has said shes prepared to step down before her term expires in 2018, but three opposition parties are are pushing for her impeachment sooner than that. Observers say the parties want to put the motion to a vote next week when the National Assembly session ends. Opposition members have been rehashing questions over where park was during the first seven hours of the sewol sinking. The ship went down off south koreas Southern Coast killing 295 people. The president ial Office Denies rumors she was receiving cosmetic surgery at that time. The antipark faction in the governing Saenuri Party holds the key in the impeachment vote. Some say its inappropriate for rumors to be included and they argue her response was not in violation of the constitution. Massive protests have been held across the country demanding park step down. A group of about 120 Japanese Ground selfdefense force personnel tasked with new duties has left for south sudan to join u. N. Peace keeping operations there. The deployment is part of the 11th gsef mission to the wartorn african nation. It will eventually total 350 members. An advanced party arrived in the country early november. The team has been given expanded duty that permit the limited use of weapons in rescue operations under japans new security legislation. The new mandate allows sdf personnel to use weapons to defend aid workers and u. N. Peacekeepers who come under attack from armed groups. The unit will assume the new duties after taking over the mission from the current sdf group on december 12th. A woman came with her two children to see off her husband. Translator its his job. It cant be helped. I hope my husband will return home safe. Members of the unit will build roads and other infrastructure for about six months. Japans Nuclear Technology deal with india is raising concern in pakistan. The agreement signed in november allows japan to export related materials to india. But a Pakistani Special envoy on Nuclear Policy says theres a weak spot. I think we would ask the japanese side to make sure that the fuel that you are providing to the indians is not going to be misused. He wants to join a global club of Nuclear Suppliers known as the Nuclear Suppliers group or nsg. The group uses a multinational framework to regulate Nuclear Technology transfers. In an nhk interview on wednesday, he said he had asked japan to support pakistans bid to join the nsg. He said pakistan needs electricity two grow its economy and he added his country is looking for ways to produce Nuclear Energy with other countries. Thousands of people have taken to the streets in manila to protest the reburial of the philippines former dictator. Ferdinand marcos was given a heros burial in november by president rodrigo duterte. 2,000 protesters marched to the gate of the president ial palace on wednesday which was also National Heroes day. Marcos ruled the philippines with an iron grip until the mid 19 1990s. Translator marcos was no hero of the working class or filipino people. He was a fascist, lap dog of the americans who. The burial took place on november 18th. It has angered many who remember with pride the People Power Movement that deposed marcos in the 1980s. Unesco has given a nod to some of japans traditional festivals. The International Body decided to add 33 of them to its intangible Cultural Heritage list. The hachinohe tasai festival from northern japans aomori free folkture dates back 300 years. The shinko gyoji parade was also added. Unesyounesco said they brought creativeness to residents and note theyve been handed down for generations. He points out some of the festivals helped restore Community Bonds after a major ear earthquake and stsunami hit northeastern japan in 2011. Members of the Preservation Group of the festival in kumamoto applauded the decision. Translator its a big honor. I believe it will bring a Bright Future for the festival. Unesco is adding the festivals as a single entry. It brings to 21 the number of japanese assets registered as intangible Cultural Heritage. Kabuki and traditional japanese cuisine are among them. Japans space agency and a manufacturer of fishing nets night appear to have little in common, but theyre teaming up to confront an astronomical problem. Space debris that poses an increasing threat to earths satellites. Nhk world has more. Reporter this 106yearold company in hiroshima makes a very special kind of fishing net. Strings emerging from silver pipes are intertwined at high speed. The strings that make up fishing nets are normally tied together. That places a lot of stress on the fibers and weakens the overall structure. The Company Makes knotless nets by running the strings through one another. As a result, their nets are 30 stronger. Translator fishing nets usually have knots. My company developed something which was considered unusual in the industry. No company can compete with us in this technology. Reporter the company is Manufacturing Technology for use in a project thats truly out of this world. In december, the Japan Aerospace exploration agency, jaexa, will launch the latest version of its transport spacecraft and a groundbreaking technique behind knotless fishing nets will be used to create supertough, superlight material for a very special mission. It will be deployed to haul in space debris. Satellite and rocket parts that orbit the earth. A satellite will use a 10kilometerlong superstring to capture the debris and haul it away. Reporter this is the string jointly developed by our fishing net company and jaexa to deal with space debris. The fibers are made of stainless steel, aluminum and other metals. Once the string is attached to a piece of debris, its zapped with electric current. The charge helps to slow the object down enough to be pulled into earths gravitational field. It then burns up as it enters the atmosphere. The string has to be very light so it can be transported into space. Its only one millimeter in diameter, but during testing, a problem emerged. Translator the string broke easily. Production was harder than we expected. It broke several times, even when it was only a couple meters long. Reporter so the fishing net company developed a slower and more precise way of making the string. The new process takes six to seven times longer than the old one. The new string is much lighter and stronger and it will require Much Less Energy to deploy. Translator our technology could be adapted for use on land, in the ocean, or in space. My firm will continue to try to meet every challenge as long as there are people who want to use our technology. Reporter this Traditional Company is looking for opportunity beyond the horizon and opening up a whole new universe of possibilities. Nhk world, hiroshima. Downfilled clothing is one of the most reliable defenses against cold weather. But Animal Rights activists are raising the alarm over some of the ways the material is sourced. In our next story we meet japanese firms working to create an ethical and sustainable supply. And a warning to our viewers, some may find these next images disturbing. Reporter Animal Rights activists filmed this video in china. Farmers are plucking the birds down while theyre still alive. Its a scenario becoming more common as demand for down continues to grow, especially in emerging markets. People at companies that use down are turning their attention to how it is being procured. Last year, manufacturers and firms in japan launched a collaboration to recycle down. 25 companies and organizations are currently taking part in the green down project. Participating stores first of all encourage customers to bring in jackets, coats and other items using down. The items are then sent to a factory. Each piece of clothing is taken apart and the down removed. Using special technology, the down is cleaned and reused in another item. If its taken care of properly, down is durable and can be reused for many decades. A label is attached to each item to indicate that its made from recycled down. Four companies now sell these products. Translator just like plastic bottles or aluminum cans, down is a resource that shouldnt be just thrown away. Reporter but most people arent aware that down can be recycled so stores hav collected many items. Translator we have tried a few initiatives such as giving out coupons to customers who bring in clothes, but were not moving forward the way we hoped. Reporter in yamaguchi prefecture, the project is trying a different approach. The idea is to collect clothing and bedding throughout the region, not just at clothing stores. For instance, theyre going to create pickup points at dry cleaners and stores that sell bedding. There are now 47 locations in the prefecture where people can drop off used down items. The local government is also helping. Its arranged for down products thrown out as waste to be collected and sent to the projects recycling center. Translator we need to present many ways for people to join the project and show them its possible to recycle down. Then the effort will gain momentum. Reporter people involved in the project are hoping word of their products will spread, helping reduce waste and improving the treatment of birds. People in china are embracing a cause thats helping bridge regional divides and driving big business. Soccer. President xi jinping is also an avid fan of the game and pledged to turn his country into a fi l footballing force. Nhk world takes a look. Reporter roads and streets in china, its a far cry from 2004 when the league kicked off before crowds one quarter of the size. The growing number of supporters have helped deliver money into the game. Translator its awesome. Theres no better feeling than watching soccer. Reporter hes a diehard supporter of chinas football club. He moved to the city last year for work. At first, it was tough. Translator moving to this big city, its kind of like being in a foreign country. All my friends are so far away. Reporter but then he joined a club for supporters and everything changed. Like him, the other members are mostly from rural china. Translator were like a family. Drinking together. Watching soccer weekends. Its a lot of fun. Reporter president xi jinping is another big fan. He wants to make china a soccer superpower by 2050. His government is busy. Supporting efforts to build more playing fields. Translator i enjoy playing and im getting confident. Reporter football is infecting every corner of the country. People in farming village are competing in the local championship. Last year, there were just two teams. Now, there are more than 20. He runs a construction business. He says he wanted to give the villagers a healthy alternative to whats around them. Many locals received government money to compensate, but they werent using it wisely. Translator a lot of people here spend their time online or gaming. Theyre fixated on it and they get drunk and cause problems. Reporter zha says he was one. He developed a drinking problem but his love of soccer helped him to kick the habit. Translator i used to just drink and play games, but with the new field, im getting so much more out of life. Translator if we have more fields in villages, well be able to drag people away from drugs and gambling. Reporter soccer is helping more people across china deal with the stress of daytoday life. Its also bridging the divide between cities and countryside with communities based on the common cause. Nhk world. Lot of energy there. Sports does unite people, but if youre supporting the same team. All right. Shifting gears now for a check of the weather. It is a cool rainy morning in tokyo. Our meteorologist robert speta joins us with more. Yes, actually across most of japan, in fact, we have been looking at cloudy skies, passing showers for the most part. We have this area of low pressure really dominating much of the country today and from the south, we had some warmer temperatures with this. And that really means that most of this is in the form of rainfall. All the way from tokyo, even into parts of hokkaido including sappo sapporo, youve been seeing pretty heavy snow the last week now but a lot of this is going to be in the form of rain for now. As we look ahead through the next several hours, in fact, some of the precipitation is going to be tapering off into the tokyo area. Still stay cloudy, maybe some drizzle passing by through the rest of the day. Back toward the north, this front is actually going to pass by. Thats going to be kicking off some colder air to this area. So western locations of hokkaido, down toward northwestern tohoku, expect snowfall to work into your forecast, much more winterlike as we head into friday and saturday. For now, though, showers into the tokyo area. 14 for the high. Seoul at 6. Beijing getting up to 9 today. Sunny skies for you. To the south, taipei at 21. Now, i do also want to talk about much of southeastern asia because the northeast monsoon is still dominating out here all the way from taiwan, eastern areas of luzon and also eastern locations of vietnam int malaysia and thailand. A persistent northeasterly winds, typical for this time of year, but is there that threat of localized flooding. Along the eastern seaboards especially and over here toward central vietnam, youre going to be looking at gusty winds coming onshore with these passing showers. Now if we take our attention further west, how about whats going on across the middle east . Specifically turkey, syria, western iraq. What we have been seeing is this lowpressure area. This is the same storm system, by the way, that impacted italy earlier this week then moved into greece, Northern Areas of the Balkan Peninsula saw heavy snowfall. Now its actually bringing heavy snow across parts of turkey and down through syria. The big issue here is that especially around aleppo, a lot of people are without heating. Theres been a lot of infrastructure, quite significantly, over the past year now. Youre going to have temperatures in some of these areas dropping down to the Freezing Point. Hopefully everybody bears with this and gets through the overnight hours because its going to be a cold one out there. Highs will be in the midteens but still exceptionally chilly. Doesnt look like snowfall in this area but eastern areas of turkey looking at heavy snow at times even heading over toward saturday. Temperatures as well dropping below the Freezing Point in eastern turkey then with a low of minus 7 there by saturday. But definitely some rough conditions for a lot of people out there who dont need more rough weather out there. Take a look at whats going on across the rest of europe, though. We have been seeing a storm system diving in out of the scandinavian peninsula. Parts of poland, you could be seeing about 20, 25 centimeters of snowfall with this. Some gusty winds as well. Overall, though, Eastern Europe really on the chilly side. 3 just in warsaw. Stockholm at minus 1. Back toward the west, its so cold, at least sunny. Youre not seeing any precipitation for those of you in london. Also over toward paris on thursday. All right. Ill leave you now with your extended outlook. That is all for this edition of nhk newsline. Im Catherine Kobayashi in tokyo. Thanks for joining us. Welcome to in good shape. Coming up painlessut , dangerous, getting. Done titus getting periodontitis under control l. Cancer and the big freeze, fighting tumors with cold and, chronic doesnt have to be debilitating, living with diabetes. And heres your host, dr. Carsten lekutat. Dr. Lekutat children can get diabetes. Most of the time, it is an autoimmune reaction