Looking for white hat hackers who use their computing skills for a good cause. Foreign ministers from russia ukraine, germany, and france are meeting in paris to establish a complete ceasefire in eastern ukraine. A truce went into effect more than a week ago, but it remains fragile. Sporadic clashes between prorussian separatists and Government Forces continue. The prorussian leader in donetsk said on tuesday that they have begun removing heavy weapons in accordance with the ceasefire agreement. He accused the Government Troops of violating the accord. He claimed they are provoking the situation by moving in weapons. Ukrainian forces dispute the accusation they assert the rebels are not abiding by the ceasefire. A military spokesperson accused prorussian militants of shelling areas near debaltseve and donetsk. A spokesperson said they will not withdraw their heavy weapons as long as the aggression continues. Analysts say the Foreign Ministers in paris are trying to create a process to make sure the deal holds. They aim to halt the fighting and remove heavy weapons. Ukraine yn president Petro Poroshenko has vowed to take back control of crimea from russia. He made the clej one year after prorussian president Viktor Yanukovych left office. Ethnic russians in crimea responded to yanukovychs ouster with massive protests. They occupied the Regional Parliament building. They later held a referendum and voted for greater autonomy from ukraine. Poroshenko said the act was a violation of both nation and International International and national law. He said ukraine will never recognize crimea as being part of russia. He said regaining control may take time but that it will definitely happen. Russian president Vladimir Putin denounced poroshenkos remarks and he expressed hopes a ceasefire will hold to end the fighting in eastern ukraine. Putin gave an interview with staterun tv. He said residents of crimea made a clear choice in the decision should be respected. Putin also said for a steady implementation of the ceasefire, he said the deal was formulated by four countries and has the support of the International Community. He urged both sides to implement the deal. President putin has long denied allegations hes fuelled ukraines war with weapons and troops. But many western leaders dont believe him. And have imposed economic sanctions. Now britains Prime Minister says what he calls russias illegal actions have reached a new level. Russia must know that any attempt by the separatists to expand that territory will be met with further significant eu and u. S. Sanctions. Russia must change course now or the economic pain it endures will only increase. Prime minister David Cameron said the separatists continue to breach the ceasefire and he says theyre only able to take control of the strategic town of debaltseve because of an influx of russian fighters and equipment. Cameron hinted he and the leaders of other group of seven nations will soon discuss new measures against russia, including additional sanctions. U. S. And south Korean Forces will come together next week for scheduled joint drills. Theyll proceed despite objections from north korea. Leaders in pyongyang have tried to use its Ongoing Nuclear tests as a bargaining chip to get the exercises called off. A spokesperson for south Koreas Defense Ministry says the drills will run from march 2nd through april 24th. About 12,000 american and 200,000 south korean troops will take part in the annual event. Theyll rehearse their chain of command and train for outdoor maneuvers. North korean officials said last month they would suspend Nuclear Tests for the time being if the drills were canceled. The norths Ruling Party NewspaperRodong Sinmun reports that the country will respond militarily if the exercise is held. The south korean spokesperson said the north was notified earlier in the day. He also said the drills will be carried out regardless of pyongyangs stance. Analysts say both the u. S. And south korea are bracing for another possible military provocation by the north. Japan and china have engaged in a harsh battle of words. In an open debate at the u. N. Security council. Chinese foreign minister chaired the debate on global peace and security. The session was organized to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of world war ii and the foundation of the United Nations. Translator there are historical facts regarding the worlds fight. But some are still reluctant to admit their past crimes of aggression. Japans ambassador to the United Nations responded to the comment. Since becoming a member of the United Nations, japan has made efforts to contribute to the peace and prosperity of the world. Japans top Government Spokesperson has weighed in. Chief cabinet secretary Yoshihide Suga says japan will maintain its stance at the debates, drawing a line on things it cannot concede. Translator the u. N. Is a stage for both countries to go headtohead with National Interests in mind. Japan has contributed to global peace and prosperity for 70 years, since the end of world war ii with deep remorse as a peaceful nation. Suga said the International Community understands and welcomes such accomplishments. Japanese leaders are pledging money to help syrian refugees. Theyll provide 6 million in aid, as part of their humanitarian Assistance Program for the middle east. Theyve decided to offer the funds through the office of the u. N. High commissioner for refugees. The World Food Program and other international organizations. The aid is designed to provide food blankets heating equipment and other necessities for people in syria, neighboring jordan turkey and lebanon. Syrian refugees are enduring the severe winter after they left their homes to flee from control of the Islamic State militant group. Foreign minister Fumio Kishida told reporters on tuesday that the assistance is part of the governments enhanced diplomatic efforts in the region. He says the move follows the purported killings of two japanese nationals by the militants. United nations officials are calling on countries around the world to stay committed to stopping the spread of ebola. They say its still unclear when the outbreak will end. The number of new infections has declined dramatically but those fighting the disease argue they need to stay vigilant. More from nhk worlds craig dale. Reporter people in this part of sierra leones capital freetown are facing roadblocks and temperature checks. Ebola cases spiked here much to the dismay of locals. Were going to god for ebola to be finished in sierra leone so we can be ourselves. Reporter its the sign the fight against leeb is not over yet. Since december 2013 there have been more than 23,000 cases worldwide. Nearly 9,400 people have died. The vast majority of infections and deaths have happened in sierra leone and two other west african nations, liberia and guinea. U. N. Officials have said ten fewer people are being diagnosed with ebola each week compared to the peak period last year. But theyre concerned because the rate of infection has flattened over the past month. They say they need more time to bring that rate to zero. You almost have to go door by door. Reporter overall the International Effort to control the worst Ebola Outbreak in history is working. Liberian leaders lifted and overnight curfew in place since last august. They allowed students to go back to school after a sixmonth break. And they reopened their border with sierra leone. Although their neighbor is keeping its side closed for now. Simple but effective measures have paid off. Health care workers wearing the right protective gear for example. Tracking and isolating patients. Medical advances are helping, too. World Health Organization officials approved the first 15 minute test for ebola. Its not 100 accurate. But its easy to perform, does not require electricity, and it can be therefore used in Lower Health Care facilities. Reporter but the w. H. O. Wants to see more research before it approves the use of this japanesemade drug. Tests in guinea have shown it halved mortality rates in patients with low to moderate levels of ebola. Everyone agrees though that stopping the virus completely will require more than just science. Response teams are facing public resistance, even to testing. Sometime, young people are refusing. Sometime we have the woman refusing to have children get for instance tested or checked. Sometimes the elders. Reporter theyre also trying to modify customs related to burials. In guinea, for example, people hug deceased loved ones which could put them in contact with infected body fluids. Health care workers are encouraging them to wrap bodies although some people are resisting for religious reasons. It all means u. N. Officials cant let their guard down. They wont say when ebola will be stopped for good. But they hope to make major progress before april, when the rainy season begins. When the rain comes, well have more malaria, well have more of the type of you know diseases that have similar symptom, and will create more reporter of course this mammoth effort is expensive. U. N. Officials say they need 1. 5 billion for this year alone. For its part japan has pledged more than 45 million to this fight. That includes about half a Million Dollars in recent funding for a project to send early diagnosis equipment to 11 african nations. Craig dale, nhk world. Toyota is gearing up to mass produce its future car. And ron madison is here with the latest on this story. Ron . Yep thats right. The future is here for toyota. Its car aptly named. It does mean future in english, gene. Toyota has launched fullscale production now of the worlds first mass market car powered by fuel cells. It is rolling out of the carmakers factory in central japan. Fuel cell vehicles run on electricity produced by the Chemical Reaction of hydrogen and oxygen. They emit no Carbon Dioxide while running. Mirai has been available since last december. Toyota received 1500 orders in just one sales month. Public offices, corporations, and private individuals signed up. Now the automaker plans to begin selling the mirai in the u. S. And europe this year. Translator toyota alone cannot create a hydrogen society. Many Companies Must also contribute to the effort. Toyota plans to produce 700 cars by the end of the year. It plans to boost production at the factory to about 2,000 vehicles in 2016. And about 3,000 in 2017. Well the people at Japanese Firm hitachi are laying the tracks, so to speak, for a push into overseas markets. Theyre set to buy now the rail car and signaling units of Italian Industrial Group finmeccanica. Now the deal will likely exceed 2 billion. Thats a record buyout for hitachi. The Company Executives expect to take over will more than double sails from their rail business to roughly 3. 4 billion a year. Executives are banking on Rail Technology to accelerate their expansion plans. Translator with this buyout we will expand the footprint of our Global Railway business. Competition is fierce in the Global Railway market. Manufacturers from canada france, and germany have large shares. While chinese makers are also boosting their presence. Greek officials have handed over a list of reform measures. That was a condition set with eurozone countries for extending a bailout package for another four months. But the list came in a day after the deadline passed. Investors in europe well theyve been showing a pretty mixed reaction so far today. Here you see how things are trading at this time. Markets are mixed. Were seeing slight gainson while both frankfurt and paris are pretty much flat at this hour. Greek Officials Say its reforms would focus on curbing tax evasion and corruption. While addressing poverty and free electricity, medical services and meals. Now the euro fell against the dollar after the news came out about the greek reform plan. Its now at roughly 1. 1309. A teleconference of the eurozones 19 finance ministers is expected to take place later on today. Meanwhile were seeing the dollar higher against the yen. Analysts say traders are speculating u. S. Fed chair janet yellen may Say Something that indicates a possible rate hike when she gives testimony before Congress Later today. Turning to the asia pacific region, many stock markets had a pretty good trading day. Tokyos nikkei ended near a 15year high while sydney marked a 7year record. Jakarta also renewing an alltime shy. Shanghai will open once again for trading after folks there celebrated a long new years holiday. Well google is boosting its digital wallet service. Company executives say they will preinstall a mobile payment app in android smartphones sold in the United States. The i. T. Giant says it will acquire Electronic Payment Technology and rights from u. S. Venture firm softcard. Google has since 2012 been offering a downloadable service allowing smartphone users to make payments using sensors at stores. That Service Though not all that popular. The new service is slated to start later this year. Googles rival apple launched a Payment Service in smartphones equipped with a fingerprint reader in october. The service is now available at about 200,000 shops and restaurants across the u. S. Corporate spending on domestic advertising in japan has recorded a Third Straight year of growth. Advertising Agency Executives say companies in japan spent roughly 51 billion on advertising last year. The number was up 2. 9 from 2013. But there was a surge of spending ahead of that hike in the consumption tax in april. The world cup in brazil and sochi Winter Olympics in russia with other factors. A breakdown shows tv advertising topped the list accounting for roughly 16 billion. That was followed by the internet at about 9 billion. Newspaper advertising paper in at 5 billion, magazines, 2 billion. Now the spending on internet ads marked a 12. 1 yearonyear rise. That was atributed to the growing popularity of smartphones and an increase in ads placed on video sharing websites. All right that is going to wrap it up for biz tonight. Lets see how things are looking on the markets. Japans National Police agency has called for International Cooperation for the crackdown on quasilegal recreational drugs. The head of the agency spoke to Senior Police officials from dozens of countries and territories in tokyo. Masahito kanetaka says countries need to work to the to stop traffic of hallucinogens designed to fall just outside the scope of banned substances. Translator drugs are spreading around the world and new varieties come out one after another. There hasnt been enough information sharing between countries. International cooperation is what we need. Kanetaka says officers around the world should Work Together to investigate drugrelated crimes. He said the substances threaten Public Safety and health. And criminal organizations that smuggle them are public enemies. Officials estimate such loophole drugs killed 112 people in japan last year. Thats more than ten times the figure for the previous year. Police believe many of the chemical ingredients come from china. Computer hackers around the world have been stepping up their game and people in government and business are concerned. One of the most blatant attacks in recent memory targeted Sony Pictures entertainment. Hackers stole confidential emails, and unreleased movies and published some of them on the internet. Officials in many countries are eager to find more white hat hackers, or people who use their computing skills to keep Computer Networks secure. One event designed just for these cyber specialists took place in tokyo. Nhk worlds Mitsuko Nishikawa reports. Reporter these people took part in japans First International cybersecurity competition. The organizers wanted to encourage more people to use their computer skills to become white hat hackers. Engineers and students from 58 countries and territories took part. 24 advanced to the final round. Okay. Reporter to win, competitors needed to know all about computers, from programming languages to viruses, and advanced math. After 12 hours, teams from south korea, taiwan and the United States swept the top three spots. A Japanese Team came in fifth place in the defense division. Recruiting officials from the public and private sectors were at the event. They were eager to meet with the top entrants. Translator japan has been targeted by many attacks from abroad. Wed really appreciate your help in fighting back. What do you say . Wont you join us . If youre interested in working for us please visit our company. Reporter this man is a graduate student who was one of the Top Competitors at the event. Translator once i start programming, i dont feel tired at all. Reporter many white hat hackers like mimura pick up the skills on their own. He began learning about programming when he was in sixth grade. He can analyze viruses used to attack businesses. Hes even written his own Antiviral Software and hes already sold it to many firms. Translator ive worked with friends online to brush up my skills, and ive written program codes. Working to the to create something outstanding is really cool. Reporter researchers at the think tank in tokyo say japan needs 300,000 white hat hackers, triple the number now. Government and Business Leaders are taking steps to reach that number. Major electronicsmaker fujitsu has built a new training facility. 120 employees are there, learning about hacking and other threats. The most advanced members of the group teach their colleagues. They share their knowledge about the latest vier russs and other information on cyber attacks. Company officials hope this will help more employees quickly develop the skills they need. Translator having knowledge isnt enough. Experience is also necessary. And we want our workers to develop advanced skills. Reporter tokyo will host the olympics and pair olympics in five years. Researchers say thats one reason they expect Cyber Threats to increase in the coming years. Government and Business Leaders hope that by encouraging more people to become white hat hackers, they can reduce the risks of devastating attack. Mitsuko nishikawa, nhk world, tokyo. A scholar in egypt has translated to one of japans best known manga into arabic. Barefoot gen tells a story about the atomic bombing of hiroshima. The series was originally created in ten volumes by the late keiji nakazawa. Its about a boy who is orphaned in the bombing. Nakazawa based the story on his own experiences. Its been translated into over 20 languages. A bookstore in cairo held an event to celebrate the release of the first volume in arabic. It was translated by a professor of japanese at cairo university. He spent time as a student in hiroshima. He says he made a translation to let people know about the suffering caused by the attack. Translator i want young people to understand the tragedy of the bombing. I think if they see the picture and think about what happened theyll start thinking more seriously about peace. He plans to translate the last nine volumes of the series over the next two years. The arctic chill is still covering much of the u. S. And canada creating frozen sights. Our meteorologist sayaka mori joins us for the details. Sayaka . Yes gene the cold is blanketing many parts of canada and the United States. Because of the continued cold weather, some parts of Niagara Falls are frozen and 98 of lake erie has been frozen, as well. But, however, unfortunately, conditions will not improve any time soon. Take a look at these numbers. These are your forecast highs, and toronto your high is going to be up to minus 9 on tuesday. You could feel like minus 30 degrees on wednesday morning. And chicago minus 12 degrees, and a chance of snow will continue from tuesday into your thursday. But some people in enjoy the cold weather and snow. And played the sport. Take a look at this fun video. Specific golf is typically played on a dry, green course. But for some athletes a snowy course was an option. Some golfers in erie played several rounds of golf during the day. Some adjustments had to be made including the use of orange colored golf balls. More golfers are taking advantage of the winter season and even created Charity Event called the frostbite open. So they braved the cold. But quite hot conditions for many people in north america. Lots of snow is still in sight for the four Corners Region and northern areas, as well and because of the low temperatures and also moisture from the gulf of mexico, frozen precipitation is likely going to happen even in the southern areas from South Carolina going to the Lower Mississippi valley there is a chance of freezing rain on tuesday. And then extremely heavy snowfall over the four Corners Region probably up to 90 centimeters on the menu on your tuesday. And because of low temperatures again, snow or sleet and freezing rain is likely to happen in the southern areas like jackson, mississippi, birmingham alabama, and also atlanta. Snow and sleet is expected on tuesday, as well as wednesday. So please do bundle up. Now snow is falling across pakistan, afghanistan, and heavy snow is likely from late tuesday going into your wednesday. Southern areas will see flooding rainfall. And another spot of snow can be found in and around turkey and heavy rain for the coastal locations, and another spot of Severe Weather can be found in italy and the Balkan Peninsula on tuesday. Theres your chance of thunderstorms and hail as well. And very windy over the north, up to 130 Kilometers Per Hour gusts will likely happen in ireland. Quite Strong Enough to cause some structural damage out there. Temperatures are not bad in london with a high of 8 degrees. Quite warm for this time of year across the east. 3 degrees in moscow with sunny conditions. And 5 degrees in kiev with rain on tuesday. And finally over asia Clear Conditions for many parts of china on tuesday. But rain will develop in the south and snow will develop in the north as we go into wednesday. And the moisture will likely move in to japan, as well as the korean peninsula. Hong kong will stay dry, but shanghai Rainy Weather on wednesday and thursday. Dry weather in tokyo wednesday but that turns wet as we go into thursday in the tokyo area. Heres the extended forecast around the globe. Thats newsline for this hour. Im gene otani in tokyo. ÷wn st of economic reform plans to brussels meeting a deadline. Both of the european commissions indicate and agreement to the bailout extension. Kiev says separatist forces are closer to the port city. One rebel leader claims his forces have begun pulling back heavy weapons as per the ceasefire agreement. An liable for terrorism, a u. S. Jury has found the responsible