The gunman reportedly detonated explosives. They have been the center of attacks by the militant group al shabbab. Russian maritime officials are searching for 15 who are missing. It went down thursday west of of the peninsula. It was carrying 32 people from ukraine and latvia. Officials at a local branch of the Russian EmergencyAdministration Says drifting ice may have hit the vessel. Also there may have been a way with a problem the way the cargo fish were loaded. Working overtime to clinch a program for nuclear. Laurent fabius says theyre a few centimeters from the finishing line but those are the hardest. He says the iranians must reach a compromise for an agreement that would prevent them from developing nuclear weapons. The talks spring together diplomats from iran. They met with closed doors through the Early Morning hours of thursday. They extended the marathon talking for a second day beyond the initial deadline. John kerry and Mohammed Javad zarif are among those that stayed on. The plan is to get them out of deflation and back on the right track. And we are here with gene on the latest survey on how their feeling. Theyre not feeling too much. Many japanese firms are reporting that prices will rise at a slower pace than the banks inflation target of 2 . About 11,000 businesses gave their outlook on infligs in the b. O. J. s latest projection. The price increase is 1. 4 a year from now. Onethird of the respond donts say prices will rise about 1 . 1 5 expects inflation around 2 . Officials at the Industry Ministry say they expect Steel Production to drop to the lowest level in twoandahalf years. They announce their estimates for the april to june period and that the demand for crude steel will be 25. 5 million tons. Down nearly 8 . The lowest level since the last quarter of 2012. Officials partly blame the weak sales of automobiles. Consumers are buys less cars after a consumption tax. They say the main reason is surplus inventory and they dont think the weak demand signals a slow down in the overall economy. Officials at japans largest steel maker are taking steps to reduce the problem. Some are looking into production cuts. Investors went hunting for budgets in tokyo and helped teenage a come back from a threeweek low for the nikkei. Market players bought shares across the board. On to the shanghai market up to a fresh sevenyear high. They reacted positively to the news of widening the Social Security fund. In australia it went up. 65 . Theyre expected key Interest Rate cuts next week. Hong kong was higher by. 77 but the Indonesian Market fell almost. 2 . A Tankan Survey shows another problem, they cant afford the labor they need. Respondents said they have excessive employment against those who didnt. The index fell two points to minus 17. Minus figures were seen in large and smaller manufacturers as well as nonmanufacturers. This implies there is a labor shortage regardless of size and sector. For workers this could mean an increase in pay. For managers at smaller businesses there could be more pressure on earnings. Manufacturers exact to grow 5 . Managers able to find enough help are hiring as many as they can, and theyre changing the way they recruit. They now want graduates with job ready skills. Managers welcomed new employees at their Head Quarters in central japan. 1500 new workers joined the company this year. Thats about 250 more than last year. Lets keep taking on new challenges to make further improvements. We should set goals for 30 years and 40 years. Even 100 years into the future. Toyota executives are expecting their highest profit in march. I want to make cars that are fun and safe to ride in. Translator i want to make appealing cars that are cute and stylish. A look at japans survey shows that employers slashed new graduate hires. Now managers are trying to catch up. Companies are also changing the way they recruit. A food company is holding their ceremony for new recruits here east of folktokyo. They want to show where the products come from and how farmers produce them. The Company Sells companies and processed foods. The recruits dug for certificates welcoming them to the country. They also learned how to harvest crops. Translator its sweet. One of the new recruit Social Security a web designer. The Company Wants to hire people with realworld experience. But that changed this year. Managers were eager to hire someone be the right skills even if she lacked work experience. I can leverage my abilities and what i have learned in this company. I want to make designs that highlight the companys strength. The competition with our rivals is intensifying. We wanted a person who could help us right away. Japanese managers used to look for enthusiasm in new recruits because they normally train employees in the skills they need. Now theyre looking for people able to hit the ground running. Translator firms are competing not only against rivals in the same industry but in other industries as well. Managers feel the urgency to hire people with expertise in a variety of fields to beat the competition. Reporter as the japanese recovery recovers, their accelerating their efforts to land talented crosssuits. Theyre counting on them to be the next engine of growth. The weaker yen is attracting an increasing number of travelers from japan to taiwan. Now a low cost carrier in the territory has started new services to meet their need. Tigerair taiwan features a single nonstop flight. 90 of the investment comes from china airlines. The first flight from tokyo was fully booked with about 180 passengers. They will have a fourday weekend as part of a traditional chinese festival. Im so excited to see the Cherry Blossoms in japan. Airfares are getting cheaper and its nice having more choices when picking an airline. More than 2. 8 Million People visits japan from taiwan last year. The number of airlines providing regular flights between the two destinations now stands at 13. Tourism officials are trying a new approach to figure out what bringing customers to their country. They have been looking at social media to see what tourists talk about. They checked where people went by examining gps data from smartphones. They say two of the wisely used words were ramen and sushi, and say they people tweeted anime and made cafe. Many peoplement today buy tea flavored chocolate and cakes to take home. Japanese subcultures are attracting a healthy interest from tourists. Global automakers are being spotlight spotlighting luxury models. More than 40 makers of brands are getting involved in the event. Nissan and toyota unveiled suv. General motors and ford are showing larger sedans that have massage functions in the seats. More than 16. 5 Million Units told. That is it for business news, ill leave you with markets. The market for pharmaceuticals is 1. 2 bill a year. They are supporting private research on new medicines and they have looked to the u. S. As a model. Takamoto reports. The command center for producing new and revolutionary drugs. It was officially launched on wednesday. The agency will be built from scratch. I want everyone to respect each other and feel free propose fresh ideas. Reporter the organization employs about 300 people. It has a budget of about 1. 2 billion. That money was previously managed by a variety of industries. Basic research was under control of the science ministry. Clinical research fell under the Health Ministry and the m Industry Ministry was in charge of medicines. The organization is modelled on the u. S. National institutes of health. N. I. H. Has always been at the forefront of Ground Breaking innovations. One of the things that has always marked us as exceptional is our leadership in science and in research. Reporter the h. I. H. Has project thats is usually much more expensive than private researchers can afford. Theyre budget is 13 billion. It employs 18,000 people. That is 60 times more. The Japanese Agency will not work on their own. They will be a Clearing House for research that may please to new drugs. Officials created the industry out of a sense of crisis. They are worried about japans ability to develop Ground Breaking drugs that can lead to strong profits. This is a pharmaceutical company. Researchers are conducting studies they hope will result in new medicines. But the success rate of developing a new drug is just one in 30,000. Translator it is important to build a framework that includes Government Support and tie ups with drug companies. The agencies goal to seek out and provide backing to researchers and other support until the Companies Start to develop medicine. This is a Research Team at osaka university. Members discover the genes that cause pancreatic cancer. There is no effective drug. The agency is helping them by providing Cutting Edge Equipment to develop new tools. They give us advice as well as important knowledge. We hope to take advantage of their knowledge, experience and support. Officials say the goal of the new agency is to break up the sectionalism that has been part of the process until now. Reporter another important feature is that it is supported by solid basic researches. It is crucial to nurture scientists who can make these discoveries. Reporter International Efforts to develop new drugs is becoming more and more competitive. If japan wants to be a player on the big stage, they need to utilize fwoft officials and scientific scientific researchers that can work together. Thank you for that report. The u. N. Human Rights Council has adopted a resolution condemns boko haram for their abductions and killings. The u. N. High commissioner for human rights al hussein says they have killed nearly 1500 people and attacked many schools since 2009. It constitutes an urgent development. Boko harams leaders must know they be held accountable by law. He describes this as a serious danger to the stability of all of africa. Boko haram kidnapped a large group of girls last year. They are believed to have attacked polling stations during the president ial election in march Turkish Police have killed a woman armed with guns and grenades and captured her accomplice. Officers intercepted the pair as they attacked Police Headquarters in istanbul. It was the third attack on an official building in the city in two days. Officers exchanged fire with the woman before shooting her dead. News reports quote a statement by istanbuls governor saying the woman was carrying a rifle, a pistol and two hand grenades. They detained a man with her. On tuesday, two gunmen took a prosecutor hostage at his office. All three later died in a shootout with police. Turkish media say the gunmen were believed to be members of the revolutionary Peoples Liberation party front, a leftist organization. Police detained another armed man on wednesday. He had entered the Istanbul Office of the turkish ruling party. He hung a flag from a window with an emblem of a sword. Authorities say its not clear if any of the incidents were linked. Members of the leftist group that took the prosecutor hostage warned they will strike again. Officials in istanbul are stepping up security and deploying armed police around the city. The native people of sakhalin have called for protect of culture for recent development projects. They gathered in nogliki. A development has forced about 4,000 people to leave their homes and fishing grounds. Companies around the world, including some from japan, are developing natural gas and other resources in the waters off the coast. An author said they should work to preserve their lifestyle and culture by telling other people about themselves. We must maintain our traditions. Local government officials also attended the forum in an apparent show of support for the ethnic culture. Theyre working to ease the peoples discontent over the projects. Easter is an important holiday in the philippines, but weather wise there might be lit toll celebrate as jonathan oh tells us. We were tracking this earlier powerful storm as it moved to the north and west in the past few days. Even though it is weakening, it is still a strong typhoon. It lost its eye and it is not as strong. They rarely hold on for long periods of time because it is hard to maintain that type of pressure level. It is still a strong typhoon. It still has gusts down to 252. Now the reason were seeing the weakening is there is a lot of resistance. The upper level air is constantly brushing up against it. Were expecting the system become a strong typhoon. By the time we get closer to the Easter Holiday weekend, the philippines are facing Tropical Storm force winds. Look out for this storm system. You need to be preparing for this. Rains and strong winds part of the potential for forecasting as go. As we take a look further to the north, japan seeing a lot of sunny skies because of the warm air coming in. The cold front will push out of china and into the korean peninsula. We will see a chance for rain. More cloud cover, you see the rain extending down to shanghai and down through hong kong. I want to take you to europe where were seeing unstable weather and some of these produce very strong winds. Let me show you what is happening in the central portion of the continent. A powerful wind storm blew over europe this week. It knocked out power to several thousand residents. Close to hurricane strength winds on wednesday. In germany, the storm is being considered one of the strongest in history for many areas. Major travel delays including trains and roadways because of many trees that came down. We have warm air coming in from the south, cold air from the north, that collision is where were seeing the strong storms and we will see this continue as we go through thursday. So keep aware of the weather situation, very wet weather from paris to berlin vienna, and kiev. We are seeing very unstable weather in the United States and into north america. Down here toward texas we had strong storms and hail reported. Some close to three centimeters in diameter. Quite large as we had this system running through. A cold front was pushing against warm air and that will create the possibility of thunderstorms and rain as we go throughout the day. Temperatures extending from 19 to 28 in oklahoma city. Cold air is swinging down to the north. Hope you a good day wherever you are. Here is your extended outlook. Buddhist monks in japan are welcoming guests to an event long time coming. The monking live and worship on mt. Koya. They are honoring an ancient teacher. They launched the celebrations by performing a ring entrance ceremony outside of a temple. Then 400 monks were lead in a service where they prayed for all of the events to go well. The monks chanted sutras. I would like as many people to know that he wanted to bring salvation to everyone. The monks will be hosting events through the third week of may. Theyre expecting 300,000 visitors. Stay tuned for our new live show tokyo newsroom that airs at the top of the hour. Im james tengan bye for now. Urt in an attack on a university in kenya. Masked alshabaab gunman stormed the school in garissa this morning and are holding several christians hostage. Talks on limiting Irans Nuclear program and marathon every time a day and a half past a selfimposed deadline to come up with an outline of the deal. In yemen, troops disembark at a port in aden hours after houthi fighters advanced to the heart of the city