Japan. And voters in the western japanese city of osaka have reject ad plan to change the way they are governed prompting the outspoken mayor to end his political career. Air strikes have reportedly resumed in yemen following a five day ceasefire. Local media says the Saudiled Coalition launched a fresh assault against shia muslim insurgents. Reporter the ceasefire ended on sunday. The truce was kept in most parts of the country except in the southern part of the country where fighting continued. President hadi told a News Conference in saudis capital riyadh rebels must be forced out. Translator today is the last day of the truce. Regrettably the coalition has committed to the truce but the houthi militias have not. Were consulting on the possibility of extending this truce but not be at the expense of the military operations on the ground. Reporter the Opposition Leader is demanding for rights for shia muslims. The militants captured the capital in february forcing houthi to exile. The president called on arab leaders to intervene. The Saudiled Coalition started air strikes in march. Middle east diplomacy expert says he sees few signs u. S. Backed saudi arabia is ready to start serious peace negotiations. He warns the air strikes could last for months. It was good that it lasted for five days. But yemen is facing humanitarian disaster out of 24 25 million, 12 million of them depend on food aid of some form and they are running out of medical supplies and five days of this truss is not enough to deliver humanitarian supplies. Reporter United Nations said more than 4,500 yemenese have died in the fighting since march. As many as 450,000 people been displaced. Death toll is set to rise after the air strikes resume. Iraqi leaders suffered a major defeat to fighters loyal to isil. They captured ramadi sending Government Troops fleeing. The fighting intensified on friday. On sunday the attacker set off car bombs and took over the Regional Military command. Government troops have been trying to defend the city but finally withdraw. A group claiming to be islam jake state posted online saying their members gained control of ramadi ramadi. They expanded control of anbar province. Government forces had managed to prevent the extremists from advancing into ma rady. I u. S. Led forces launched a Campaign Last august. Pentagon Officials SayIslamic State militants gained the advantage in ramadi. The Officials Say u. S. Led coalition will support iraqi forces to take ramadi back. Syrian Government Forces are pushing back Islamic State fight frers a unesco World Heritage site. The ancient city of palmyra is famous for its 2,000yearold terples. Members of a Monitoring Group said members seized government buildings. But Syrian Forces fought back with air raids. Fierce clashes continue. More than 200 people from both sides have been killed. The Islamic State group has destroyed other World Heritage sites in areas it controls. Unesco describes palmyra as an irreplaceable treasure. An accidents in hawaii involving a u. S. Marine corps aircraft is raising concern in another part of the pacific. One marine died and more than a dozen were injured when the mv22 osprey crash landed. The u. S. Military keeps a fleet of the aircraft here in japan. This footage was taken near the site where the osprey hit the ground marine corps Officials Say 22 personnel were on board. They were taking part in routine training on the island of oahu. A man visiting a nearby beach shot this video. He said three ospreys flu overhead 30 seconds before he noticed a column of smoke ridesing in the sky. 24 osprey are stationed in okinawa at the u. S. Futenma air station. Translator the aircraft are stationed in okinawa too. Translator i want accidents to be minimized as much as possible. The governor of on okinawa says hell consider asking the u. S. Military to suspend flights of ospreys. Translator my prefecture pose the deployment of ospreys. We asked the governments to withdraw them. Japans top Government Spokesperson said he requested information from american officials about the accident. Translator the japanese government has been urging the u. S. To prioritize safety in operating the aircraft. We will continue to emphasize this point. Last week u. S. Defense Department Officials announced plans to deploy ospreys at another facility in western tokyo starting two years from now. North korean staterun media criticized south koreas President Park geunhye saying the country is run through terror. The service said Peoples Armed forces minister was executed in pyongyang late last month. On friday park said Many South Koreans are alarmed to learn of the reign of extreme terror in north korea. The norths staterun Korean Central News Agency denounced park by quoting a statement from a group of workers. It accused her of slander. The north has yet to comment on the execution report. Now policymakers in thailand are keen to kick start the economy that has been shaken by Political Uncertainty and thai officials have just released the latest gdp numbers. Gene otani from the business desk has more on that and other headlines. Gene, what do the figures look like there are signs of growth. Government officials in thailand say the countrys economy expanded during the january to march period for a fourth straight quarter but lowered their growth forecast for the year citing a slow down in exports. Officials at the National Economic and social Development Board say gdp grew 3 from the same period last year. The Thai Government is increasing public spending on infrastructure to help support the economy. Tourism business has improved with the number of Foreign Tourists rising. Tourism fell last year because of the military coup. They account for 70 of thailands gdp. Exports of rubber to china and Seafood Products to japan and europe led the decline. Officials revised down their Growth Outlook for this year to somewhere between 3 and 4 . Thats half a percentage lower than the previous projection in february. They said weakness in the Global Economy is to blame. Chinas overall Housing Market is still sluggish but new home prices in big cities rose again last month widening the gap there with regional cities. Officials at the National Bureau of statistics say new house prices fell in april from the previous month in 48 of the 70 cities surveyed. 12th straight month that housing prices have fallen in more cities than theyve risen. A number of places that fell was two less than the previous survey. Housing prices rose in 18 cities up by six from march. The increase was more pronounced in the big cities. Shenzhen saw a rise of 1. 8 and beijing had an uptake of 0. 8 . Prices in shanghai rose 7. 1 after being flat in march. The lack luster Housing Market is behind chinas economic slow down. Excess inventories led to this. Beijing officials have been trying to reverse the fall in investment with finance and tax incentives. Economists say those incentives are starting to work in the big cities but they warn that prices are continuing to fall elsewhere. Managers at Japanese Companies are ordering more equipment, machinery orders in march made a turn around for the first time in two months. Officials at the Cabinet Office say companies in japan ordered machinery worth 7. 3 billion. Thats up 2. 9 in yen terms from february. The figure does not cover the shipping and electric industries where numbers tend to fluctuate. Orders from manufacturers rose 0. 3 marking the first uptake in three months. This was led by demand for boilers and turbines from paper and pulp makers. Nonmarvers shot up 4. 7 . Wholesalers and retailers placed more orders for computers and other electronic equipment. Cabinet office is maintaining its assessment that machine orders are showing signs of a moderate recovery. Checking the markets after these economic figures, share prices in tokyo closed at their highest level in three weeks. The nikkei average rose at. 8 . Many investors bought shares of banks and Insurance Companies after they reported strong earnings last week. Chinese be markets meanwhile were volatile following the weak data on home prices. The shanghai composite shed nearly 0. 6 ending at 4283. 20 companies are set to launch initial Public Offerings this week. Some investors are concerned that could draw money away from currently trading stocks. Sidney dropped more than 1. 3 closing at 5659. Mining giant bhp was the biggest loser. Started trading today at a much lower price than expected. In other markets in the asiapacific region hong kong retreated from the strong gains on friday. It sagged 0. 8 . Indonesia gained. 2 . Market players stayed on the sidelines. The supply of new condominium in greater tokyo area fell to a 23 year low in april. Sluggish demand in the suburbs is dragging down the overall market. The Real Estate Economic Institute says april saw nearly 2300 units come on the market in tokyo and three neighboring prefectures. Thats the lowest figure since 1992 for the month of april. Down 7. 6 yearonyear marking a decline for the four straight month. Rising Construction Cost led to a drop of units but officials predict an upturn in coming months. They say condos in large come pleases will come on to the market from june in the city center where theres demand from affluent home buyers. Japanese authorities are debating what to do about drones. Recent accidents have prompted calls for stricter regulation. Yet Business People say the Unmanned Aircraft provide speed and efficiency. Thats the case with a japanese Insurance Company which is using drones to investigate traffic accidents sites. The footage gives investigators a close up and detailed view of accident sites. They say they will also consider using drones to check damage caused by international disasters. A Company Executive says the workers have hadifficulty getting the full picture of accident sites. Drones can help them shorten the time it takes to file reports. With summer just around the corner in japan the market for Wearable Technology is starting to heat up. Makers are rolling out models with features designed to help people stay cool comfortable and safe during the hot season. Reporter 30 different wearable devices are on display at this Electronics Retailer which opened last month in tokyo. They include eyeglasses and watches. Translator these are fashionable and cool. Translator this bracelet from france uses an embedded sensor to measure the amount of ultraviolet light. It works with a smart phone application. Translator in sunlight, the numbers rise like this. Translator the device alerts the user when its time to slather on sunscreen or to put on a hat or sunglasses. Translator people want to enjoy themselves outdoors in summer so we want to provide information on how to avoid overexposure to ultraviolet raies. Reporter a major japanese sports wear maker has developed a line of shirts with sensors that monitor heart rates. A material in the chest area detects subtle electrical signals. The data are transmitted to a smart phone allowing users to see how fast or slow their hearts are beating. Translator my heart rate shot up to 150. Reporter company Officials Say the clothing is popular among middle aged and elderly people who enjoy jogging and mountain climbing. A Major Electronics maker is developing a device that looks like a wristwatch. Its for people who work outdoors and helps prevent them from getting heat stroke. The device has sensors to monitor outside temperatures and humidity in addition to the wearers pulse and other signs. For example, Construction Companies may find the devices useful. If outdoor conditions exceed a set level, the watch will send a warning and the company can instruct workers to rest. The maker plans to test the device and begin selling it by the end of the year. Translator wed like to change peoples lives with innovations in information technology. Reporter the companies hope i. T. Can deliver the data people need when heading outdoors in summer, whether for work or play. Thats it for business news. James is next but before that ill leave you with the markets. Voters in japans Third Largest city osaka has decided not to to change the way they governed. They rejected a plan to merge the city and governments in a close referendum. The results show people faced a tough choice when casting their ballot. Reporter osaka mayor blamed himself for the defeat not being aable to convince people its time for a change. Translator the residents of osaka city didnt accept the plan so i guess they think my proposal is flaw. I was not able to thoroughly explain and convince them enough on the agenda. Reporter he says hell retire from politics after he serves out his term. Turn out was 67 . Thats the highest of any election held in over two decades. 695,000 supported the plan. Osaka prefecture is run by its governor and prefectural assembly. But osakas city hold as much power. Supporters of the change saying having two organizations didnt make sense financially. They propose having the prefecture of osaka city through direct Administration Similar to the way tokyo is governed. They said merging the prefectures Growth Strategy would help the city develop into a metropolis. But opponents say integration was not a solution to the problems of governments. They said a merger would create additional costs and lower the quality of local services. Translator its good to hear the plan was rejected. Some people wanted change. But the result speaks for it self. Translator its too bad. I expected to eliminate the government redundancy. I hope they will take the result seriously because the two sides were almost equally divided. Reporter an expert on regional economies said the argument lacked broad perspective. The debate over the merger should have been based on a big picture that envisions how people could improve the regions economic state in the long run. Instead, the argument gradually focused more on comparing advantages and disadvantages that they may face every day. Reporter those who oppose the plan say that they cannot ignore the voices of those who voted for change. Translator its also true that mr. Hashimotos message that change is necessary for osaka deeply moved the citizens. Reporter the referendum shed light on the fact that a considerable number of people are dissatisfied with the Current System and want change. Leaders in osaka must now find a way to address that. Thanks for that update. A japanese figure skating star says she will be back in competition. Mao asada is an olympic silver medalist and has resumed training after a one year break. Translator my hope is to once again achieve the level that i did at last years World Championship. If i fail to do so i cant compete again. I will work hard in my training to perform well on the ice. The 24yearold took last year off. She said she wanted a rest after the sochi games. She captured the World Championship title after competing at the olympics. A sadda won the silver in the 2010 vancouver games but failed to reach the podium in sochi and finished sixth. She says her focus is on competing at the next olympics. Several top ranked skaters have taken temporary breaks and then returned to compete. South koreas kim was among such athletes. She took silver in 2014 after a one year absence. Okay. Here in tokyo its cloudy partly fair with a current temperature reading of 23 celsius or 72 degrees far rent height. Heres our weather update starting with how people in the u. S. Plains are dealing with the aftermath of tornadoes. Yes, james, rough weather affected many parts of the United States over the weekend. At least 34 tornadoes were reported in areas from texas up into minnesota. Hail and strong winds were reported as well. I want to take you to oklahoma to show you the damage done by a twister. Residents began cleaning up after a series of tornadoes hit parts of oklahoma on saturday. Homes were turned on its side and vehicles were damaged. One resident described it as freight trains hitting each other. The marine corps was going doortodoor to lend a helping hand for the residents. Thunderstorms and floods also battered the central u. S. Thousands were without power but there were no reports of fatalities. Now the Severe Weather maker has weakened and slightly shifted towards the east and now affecting wide areas of the eastern u. S. With heavy rainfall, the worst happened from texas into tennessee on monday. Meanwhile theres a low pressure system and High Pressure system in the north in between strong northerly winds that are blowing pushing down temperatures. Winnipeg right now snow is falling. Temperatures will cool down as we go into the next several days in the northern areas. Take a look at he these numbers. Pittsburgh your high will be 29 on monday. More like summer but back down to 17 degrees on wednesday. Buffalo, youre high will be 22 on monday down to 11 degrees on wednesday. So take care of your health. Temperatures will drop significantly in just two days or one day. Now across europe lots of clouds are covering many parts of the british isles. Things are getting stormy and tornadoes could happen over the southeastern portions of the uk on monday. Towards the south we have a couple more storms thats capable of producing more Severe Weather over the south of italy as well as the balkan peninsula. The worst condition may happen in bulgaria were talking about the risk of large hail damaging winds as well as tornado. Heavy rain will cause flooding as well. Temperatures will be quite high over the south. Rome 32 degrees for the high. 30 degrees in madrid. More like midsummer for you but down to 22 trees as we go into tuesday. To the north quite chilly. Stock home 11 degrees for the high. Now across asia were watching a typhoon named dolphin. Dolphin is heading towards the izu island. Its a very strong typhoon. Gusts are 216 Kilometers Per Hour at this moment. More likely move through the ogasawara islands late tuesday to early part of wednesday. During that time period theres a risk of severe thunderstorms as well. High waves of up to 8 meters across these islands where 2,000 people are living. The system will likely miss a minuteland japan but a seasonal rain affecting many parts of japan and south china. They will see about 160 millimeters of rain over the next 24 hours. Flooding mudslides, all of them are going very high concern for you. Temperature hasnting up in chongqing with 31 degrees. 26 degrees in tokyo and Rainy Weather in the afternoon hours and 23 degrees in seoul on tuesday. Heres your three day forecast around the globe. And thats it for this hours newsline. More to come here on nhk world so stay with us. Wnwiwiwiwn s biggest victory in months. Birdie braces itself to run the burundi braces itself for new protests. In the European Union gets set you back plans to fight smugglers in the mediterranean. Also coming up for you this hour, a new twist in the case of a rogue trader. We will be telling you about new testimony in the case of the man who lost one french bank almost 5 billion euros