Forecasters say typhoon lionrock is near an island chain near tokyo moving at 25 Kilometers Per Hour. The typhoon is packing winds of 120 Kilometers Per Hour near its center. Lionrock is causing heavy rains in western japan. Officials say some areas have seen about 40 millimeters per hour. Lionrock projected to turn northwest. Weather authorities warn people should avoid dangerous places like coastlines and swollen rivers. Apple growers in northern japan are racing to harvest their crop before lionrock hits. One of the leading apple producing districts in japan, farmers say Early Harvest variety started to ripen last week so they are trying to ship the fruit before the storm arrives. Translator a typhoon is one of the big threats for apple farmers. Its frightening. Officials in the frequent have issued special alert for farmers urging them to put up nets and reinforce trees. Workers of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant are preparing for the approaching typhoon. They are arranging palms to draw more groundwater than usual so contaminated water wont flow into the water. Getting contaminated with racket radioactive substance. They plan to suspend some of their actions for decommissioning the plant. Entrepreneurs from around the world are competing in a new kind of space race. They are trying to become the first to land a private rover on the moon in pursuit of a 20 million prize. A sneak peek at the vehicle Japanese Researchers are developing. Reporter researchers have been waiting nine years for this moment. If all goes as planned this little rover will be wheeling across the surface of the moon next year. Today is a very big event and major milestone, so im very relieved after i finish this event. Reporter the rover in a contest announced in 2007. The giant wanants to encourage entrepreneurs to create afraidable access to the moon. One of 16 international funded teams including u. S. , germany and india. The winning team has to successfully place a robot on the moon that travels at least 500 meters and transmits High Definition images back to earth. Japans team is called hokto, which means white rabbit. Linked to a japanese folk tail where they see a rabbit on the moon. They want to eventually live on the moon. They plan to explore the lunar surface by the end of next year becoming the first to do so. But there are still challenges to overcome, including reducing development costs, carrying the rover into space on a rocket will cost 1. 2 million per kilogram. Team hakoto weighed 10 kilos, latest model is 4. The team leader says hes confident he can even make it lighter. One idea is to use two rovers. In that case we expect one rover to be visible. Its only been about 50 years since that first giant leap into space. Team hakoto hopes the work will lead to the next one. Nhk world, tokyo. Okay. Now onto business news. Share prices in tokyo soared. Gene otani joins us from the business desk. Stocks rallied on a higher dollar. U. S. Currency after janet yellen said she might be considering a rate hike. The stock exchange. Reporter following Janet Yellens comments may see a rate hike earlier than expected. A list of japanese exporters, lets see how the key benchmark closes monday august 29th. Nikkei gained 2. 3 ending at 16,737. Thats the highest level in a week and a half. The broader topix also rose. Green backs broke about 102 yen. Taking a look at individual stocks. In particular automakers saw large gains. Toyota and honda both rose nearly 4 , mazda up 6. 3 . However, it wasnt a good day for Convenience Store chain family mart. Its shares plummeted 5 ahead of its merger with Supermarket Chain uni. Many investors look at numbers friday. Positive data could indicate a rate hike is coming sooner rather than later. Im phoebe amaroso reporting from the tokyo stock exchange. Most other markets in the asiapacific ended lower the possibility of a u. S. Rate hike dampened isntment. Many investors worry about capital outflows from the region. Strong volatility in japanese markets, shanghai ended down by a fraction, 3070 close the number. Gains of property and construction stocks made up for losses in financials. Lets take a look at indonesia. Jsx down 1. 25 , 5370 is that finishing. Benchmark tumbled to twoweek low with sectors in the negative. Energygy shares lower on fallin oil prices. A Japanese Research team has built a prototype karen begin that could boost fuel efficiency. The professor says key design increases from 30 to 60 . Fuel and air injected into the engibb from multiple points. This concentrates the fuel for burning in one spot. The groupup s says the engine c be u used inn small Power Generators in homes as well as automobiles, aircraft and rockets but they say Practical Application will take five to ten years more. Nigel says representatives have visited their lab to see the new technology. Bluefin tuna stocks kicked off in western japan. Experts havee baseball worried about dwindling stocks. Delegates from taiwan, United States and seven other pafb rim nations are attending the meetining. They are focusing on emergency limits when bluefin stocks dropped to critical levels. Estimated to be about 160,000 tons in 1961. The figure plummeted to a tenth of that to 17,000 tons by 2014. Major factor overfishing of juvenile fish. Used for low priced suashimi an sushi. Limits if the population shrinks for the Third Straight year. Some environmental groups pushing for temporary total fishing ban instead of limiting quotas. The delegates will discuss longterm targets. Most participating nations aiming to increase up to 30,000 tons by 2024. Thats more than double the current volume. Here is a look at some of the other business stories were following. Officials say they want to increase the number of female Public Servants in the central government. An intnternship program for wom at university and graduate schoolss has been launched at governmement offices for a stepn that direction. More than 300 students will take part in the program. They can choose to work at two of any ministry or agencies. Women account for about a third of the national Public Servants recruited atat the start of thi year on april 1st. That number is the highest on record. Japans first Job Placement Center catering mainly to middle aged and elderly workers has opened in southwestern japan. The facility provides information on openings to applicants. They give interview tips. Launcheded under a Government Initiative to establish special economic zones. An influx of touourists to japan caused a shortage of hotel rooms. The situation is particularly serious in osaka. Hotel occupantsy rate there reached 90 in april, the highest in the country. Thats forcing people in the industry to rethink their approach. Nhk world reports. Reporter visitors from overseas make up more than 90 of the guests of this hotel. Its fully booked until the end of the year. Translator there arent enough rooms to meet demand. We can only accept onetenth of the booking requests. We feel awful turning down so many guests. Reporter developers are exploring new options to meet the soaring demand. This former Office Building was vacant for more than a year. A Real Estate Management company took it over. It was reborn as a hotel in march. Some of the electrical outlets are compatible with foreignmade appliances. The Company Plans to open eight more hotels in the next three years s by retrofitting g exist buildings. Translator Everyone Wants to builild more hotelel rooms righ now. This is a good location. Wewere breathing new life inton old building. Reporter smaller businesses are also getting into the act. This man runs a traditional bath house that his greatgrandfather started in 1928. It has a long history, but morikawa is worried about the future. Translator old bath houses like ours are closing every year. Not many people use them anymore. Reporter so morikawa decided to branch out. Translator thats our guest house. Reporter he rerefurbished a vacant row house and turned it into a guesthouse with nostalgic air. About 50 foreign visitors have stayed here since it opened in april. Rooms go for about 30 a night. Much lower than the standard hotel. And guests get a Little Something extra. They can use the bath house for free and enjoy a little traditional japanese culture. Its crazy. Its fun. Its relaxing. Its japanese. Translator its not just foreign guests that are excited to stay here. Ive been getting japanese visitors, too. The retro style facilities may appear rather novel, even n to japanese people. Reporter as japans tourism boom continues, people in the Hospitality Industry are exploring new ways of putting out a welcome mat. Chuichiro yamashita, nhk world, osaka. You can catch our report again online together with a full transcript for nhkhk world and business wrap. Thats a look at business news. Ill leave you with the markets. The japanese government is trying to strengthen ties with African Companies through Higher Education and job training. It set up a Scholarship Program allowing hundreds of promising athletes to study at japanese graduate schools. Nhk reports. Came to japan two years ago. Hes about to finish his masters program. I have been working on medical technologies for developing countries. Reporter he is one of hundreds of africans whose tuition is covered by the japanese government. The government plans to accept 1,000 students over the fiveyear period from 2014. 2014. Translator we are trying to establish business partnerships instead of a r relationship p between an aid provider and receiver. We hope the Young Africans who participate in the program will serve as navigators for japanese firms who start businesses in africa. Reporter taking full advantage, back home he launched a company for developing software and smartphone apps. But he wants to enhance his expertise by learning from japanese technology. The app he has been developing can be used for medical treatment in rural areas with a shortagege of doctors. The sensors connected to the smartphone collect the patients medical data from remote areas. A doctor can then access the information and give professional advice. With the connection that they created here in japan, i think they also help me to walk together and introduce a good japanese technologies in general to expand in the whole of africa. Reporter students also take part in internships at japanese firms. Jamie butare was placed at a Tokyo Software developer. For seven or eight hours. We dont talk, we just concentrate on our task. Reporter he runs the firm and wanted to build a program that predicts testing errors during software development. But butare found it a challenge to finish inin the two weeks he was given. I want to complete my task. Yeah, i do, too. Translator the task had a number of challelenges, so it doesnt matter that he doesnt have the abilityty to accompmpl it at this stage. The more importantnt thing is s attitude towards the task. Im very happy because they are happy about my focus as i continue to work on this task. Reporter he sees opportunity not only in the students. He established an offshore site in rwanda two years ago. Hehe sees the country as a growg market with potential for software companies. Translator the intererns ar potent and gaining learning and working experience in japan. We expect they will continue improving their skills after going back home. Then they will be the key figures in my company that can lead younger local engineers. Reporter as japan increases its prisons on the continent, expectations are mounting for africans from the country and japan. Takafumi terui, nhk world, tokyo. Japans paralympic track team left for pregame Training Camp in new york before the start of the rio games next month. The 18 athletes met reporters at the airport near tokyo. Saki, competing in the long jump said she will try not to forget the spirit of the challenge and remember to enjoy everything. Translator i will aim for a medal in long jump. Tomoki sato, the 2015 World Champion in the mens 400 meters wheelchair race, said he will do his best to win gold with support from many people. Translator i am very nervous and also excited as this is the first time for me to compete in such a big event. The rio Paralympic Games will kick off on september 7th. As tokyo gears up to be in the olympic spotlight in 2020, it focuses on many things. One is stray animals. Heres our report. Reporter these are for dogs and cats. Japanese people love their pets. The country is home to nearly 20 million dogs and cats alone. But there is a problem, many animals are being abandoned. Over 100,000 of them are put down every year. Now people are trying to cap that number. Officials leaders and representatives met with animal care groups in tokyo to discuss the issue. Monday them was the governor. His prefecture has drastically reduced the number of animals it destroys. Translator cutting the number of pets put down in kanagawa would have been impossible without help from volunteers. Reporter local volunteer groups help by finding homes for abandodoned animals. S. The tokyo governor also attended the event. Translator we hope to show how to achieve a target of having no animals put down by the deadline of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and paralympics. Reporter the organizer for the event had this to say. Translator too many ananima are being bred, so we want to help more people adopt them. And we need stricter laws and regulations before the tokyo 2020 olympics. Reporter the attendants agreed to continue sharing their knowledge and experiences. This sort of wide ranging cooperation between public and private groups to end the distressing problem has just begun. Jun komito, nhk world, tokyo. A ceremony has been held in tokyo. A c ceremony in peru for the 11h year immigrants arrived from okinawa, japans southern prefecture. 500 people attended the event in the peruvian capital of lima on sunday. The governor was among them. Translator people of japanese descent are playing important roles in various fields today in this country. We are very proud as many of their ancestors emigrated from our prefecture. Reporter peru was the first south american nation to accept immigrants from japan. People from okinawa started immigrating in 1906. About 100,000 japanese peruvians now live in the country. Around 70 are said to be the descendants of people from okinawa. Jonathan oh joins us with a look at World Weather starting with typhoon lionrock. Hello. We are continuing to monitor typhoon lionrock as it moves toward japan. It is something well watch very closely. You may notice, though, the clouds are a little bit smaller than it was earlier in the frame. And the reason why is because the system has reached its peak intensity. It is now starting to weaken. Nevertheless, we are expecting this system to be potent as it comes onshore. We are expececting itt to arriv along the Pacific Coast of the tohoku region as we go into tuesday. So this is something residents need to look out for Going Forward in time. We do mention that impact, but i also want to mention the western portion of japan are dealing with the indirect effects of this particular storm. We have a lowpressure system in the sea of japan, thats bringing in some of the colder air from the north in the upper layers of the atmosphere. When you have th s soupy tropical airir coming in at the surface level from lionrocock, u get a lot ofof heavy rainfall. We are dealing with a a lot of heheavy rainfall throughout the western portion of japan as we went throughout ththe day. Morere of that likely througugh the overnighght period and then the shift the shift of f the focus really movoves to the northern portions of japan. We keep an eye on this as we go throughout the next couple of days. Thats not the only tropic system thats out there. Theres a lot thats happening. We go to the eastern side of the pacific, we have a couple systems we are watching right now. We go to the Atlantic Basin and starting to fire up here. We have a hurricane and tropical depressions were watching. Let me talk eastern pacific, Tropical Storm named madeleine moving west northwest 17 miles an hour packing winds gusting to 120. It is going to brush closely to hawaii as we go through later this week. Those of you living in hawaii, this is the time to prepare for the impact. A lot of heavy rain with strong winds on the big island as we go into wednesday. Then thursday well see wet weather continuing as we go forward in time. Meanwhile, i mentioned the Atlantic Basin being active, we have gaston way over in the central portions of the ocean. Thats not going to make an impact. But we have a tropical depression thats west of florida. This is the one were watching more closely than the e tropica depressionon near the carolinan coast. T. Yes, wellll have showers along the beach areas for South Carolina and north carololina, t we are looking more alonong hea rainfafall Going Forward i in t over floririda because were expecting it to become a Tropical Storm and bringing rain right over the panhandle of florida as it goes throughout the next few days. Be on the lookout for that. Rain and thunderstorms in miami and atlanta. Also seeing some separate rainfall from houston into denver. Dryer conditions back over to the west as we go throughout monday. Hope you have a good day wherever you are. Heres your extended outlook. For your thoughts and comments visit our website and this is france 24. These are the headline. The biggest step in putting an end twoputting conflict in colombia. Brazils suspended president is set to be at her impeachment trial. She is accused of fixing the books. Pushys Army Continues to into northern syria. Tradeoming up, a freed deal between the eu and the United States even likely. Yearcientists wrap up a completedome in isolation. Rom paris. Ory live rof the longestrunning conflict in the west is coming to an end. Rebels have agreed to a ceasefire with the government. We have more on the deal that puts an end to five decades of fighting. Afterer a ceasefire four years of peace talks. The historic announcement was made on sunday. [indiscernible] position, i order all of our leaders and each and tory one of our combatants ceasefire in a definitive manner from midnight tonight. Reporter the conflict has left 0,000 people dead and has displaced close to 7 million. Herdeal will allow the farc tto participate. They will hand over there weapons to United Nations monitors. Not everyone is pleased with the term of the deal. The families might be indignant about the deal. Reporter the final agreement will be signed in the coming weeks at the United Nations headquarters. The final endorsement still needs to be put to a referendum in colombia. Anchor the suspended president in brazil will address the senate today. She is finally to save her job, despite accusations that she fixed the books. She said shes being targeted by here enemies. They are tied to remove her since last year. Lets bring in our reporter in rio. She is set to speak in less than an hour. She is unlikely to win the verdict. Reporter that would seem to be the case. Impeachment needs supportive 2 3 of senators. The administration of the standing president , now is a defective government has the power of political patronage. Sources say she is not yet admitted defeat. It would seem to be all but inevitable. Anchor her speech is going to be broadcast live. She is speaking to all of the people of brazil as well as the whole world. Reporter i think she is aware of the fact that she is addressing the court of public opinion, also World Opinion and she is sure to stress or democratic credentials. Sure, undermine the legitimacy of the government. Likelyd coup detat is to raise the temperature inside the senate. The opposition said they were not except her using this word. She will bring along the former president , a former singer, for moral support. The other side will have their supporters. It could be a rock is atmosphere on a very traumatic day. Anchor thank you for the, tim, reporting from rio. Dozens of people have been killed in syria as Turkish Forces pushed away across the order. Tom stephenson told us more. Tom we had seen further advantage into northern syria. They have taken a couple morris all town, south in the countryside. Aleppothe northern countryside. If we go back to wednesday, the turkish force intervened in the syrian civil war. Most of the fighters are syrian rebel fighters. Some of them freed groups. Militia, for example. They are fighting with that narrative, they have withdrawn mostly from that area the past few weeks. Most of the fighting is against another syrian rebel group. They are well armed and have the tanks and hardware, air support coming from turkey. This is very serious right now. Anchor turkey has said they are going to target militia unless they retreat east of the euphrates. This is a very complicated hes of this puzzle. Tom that is right. When the operation is was launched, there are going to target the state. Wherever they found the fighters. The foreign minister has said kurdishl target any force found west of the euphrates. They must with job by the Euphrates River they Must Withdraw by the Euphrates River. He militarywhen victory for the islamic state, just a couple of weeks back. The turkish groups are sharply opposed to the Kurdish Forces and trying to contain them on the eastern side of the Euphrates River. See a kurdisht to site set up on the border. They are fighting their own insurgency against Kurdish Forces in southeastern turkey. Were seeing lots of fighting this point, with the Turkish Forces involved. Anchor turkey is part of the u. S. Backed coalition. There also backing kurds in syria. The clashes between turkey and syria are unacceptable. Next to yemen, where the death toll is up to 60 from the suicide bombing, in the Southern City of aden. Someone drove a car into a group in army Training Camp. No one has claimed responsibility. Fighters in libya are on the verge of reclaiming a city. You have suffered heavy casualties. Wounded. 180 were andrew explains. Reporter the noose is tightening around the islamic state. Tanks and antiaircraft guns. They blast their way. Much of the fighting has taking place in neighborhood one. Fighters say they have recaptured the entire area. The focus is shifting to the east. In neighborhood three, they are thought to be making a last stand. We the seated them. Our forces advanced on the front. We will finish them. Owes muchthe offense of its success to u. S. Airstrikes and spepecial forces. Wave after has thrown wave of suicide bombers. Five car bombings, a sign of how desperate the group is to hold on to its prize. It is the only major stronghold outsole syria and iraq, putting within striking distance of western europe. Even if they are finished up here, they will struggle to do so in the face of a determined government fight back. Anchor a kidnapped aide worker has been rescued. Katherine wilson is a wellknown worker in afghanistan. She was taken in late april when she was visiting a city for a womens embroidery project. She is now reported to be safe and well. There are fears of violence breaking out in gabon after both president ial candidates claim victory. The vote has been marred by accusations of fraud and irregularity. Reporter supporters of the opposition president ial candidate singing the National Anthem in the capital libreville to celebrate. They know are warnings of declaring results. A to theibuted poll dat crowd, suggesting he was the winner of the president ial vote. Trendthe overall tend, i was way. You were able to avoid the pitfalls of widespread fraud. A regime were finally seeing off with dignity. Reporter just a few kilometers away, there was a surprise appearance to reassure his backers. He has been in office since 2009. Isa delivered said he dominating in five out of nine provinces. He said he was calm about his prospects. The experience for us to serene, which is exactly what we are doing. There is no need to say anything at all. Reporter gabon is one of the riches oilproducing countries of africa. You have budget cuts. People are struggling under bongos leadership. Accusations of fraud. Victories,h claiming they have to wait for the official announcements for the results on a new. Anchor a scientific experiment simulating what it would be like to live on mars, only being allowed to go outside if they were wearing spacesuits. It was the second longest study of its kind. They talked about how they were able to find their own water. You can get water from the ground that is seemingly dry. It would work on mars. You water on mars. I will give you my personal impression. The mission to mars is realistic. I think the can be overcome. Anchor time now for business news. More trouble between the u. S. And the eu. Reporter the talks have failed. The economy minister said nothing is moving forward in the discussions, which had been going on for three years. Cold water on hopes the major trade deal might be agree before the u. S. President ial elections. Reporter it has been called the most ambitious trade deal in the world, an important ambition for barack obama. The Transatlantic Partnership is doomed. According to my assessment, the negotiations with the United States have failed. That is because having had 14 months of negotiations, there is not been a single joint statement. Reporter washington was angry that the eu had agreed with a similar agreement with canada. Negotiations had stalled since brexit. There has been growing opposition to the plan on both sides of the atlantic. They have stressed the importance of the deal severe economy, but friends has an skeptical from the start. Francois hollande said he would reject the deal. Ofe of the main points contention include the protection of the brands of certain goods. Anchor there are comments over future Interest Rate hikes. Reporter the strength the case has been strengthened. The fed have been worried about voting too of britain leave the european union. It is not for the global economy. It doesnt mean the fed has relaxed about the rest of the world. In the emerging world, we ask for summarization. It is important that this is much more important because15 years ago, emerging markets was 20 and now it is 40 of the global economy. Therefore you cannot have the next generation with rate hikes unless the red does not fed does not want that. Reporter european shares are trading down. Some say it is impossible to interpret Janet Yellens comments. Bitort time ago, it was a quieter out there today. So more business headlines. The french trains has seen their contractse after a with the american operator and try to supply new highspeed trains. Surrenderedeem have service in abu dhabi after some of their drivers were arrested. As many as 50 drivers had been stopped by authorities. They are continue to operating in neighboring dubai. Strike ifted for they do not get a new deal with their supporters. They are negotiating a new workers agreement with general motors, and ford. They want to keep certain factories open. Anchor some new rules for jerome just came out today for drones. Reporter they include a ban on nighttime operations required for operators to hold licenses. They streamline those for commercial operation. Small drones that fly. The faa said the new rules could create up to 100,000 jobs in the next industry in the couple of years. We know that amazon wants to use drones. Anchor thank you for the outlook. Review. For the press were taking a closer look at what the papers have been saying today. You are going to start with it the controversy. Reporter were talking that colin kaepernick, a quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers. He refused to stand when the u. S. National anthem was played at the games. The New York Daily News has a flag, a reference to a penalty. Inside he ways why he is doing this form of protest. Inam not going to show pride a flag for a country that oppresses people of color. He says he is going to continue to sit when the National Anthem is played. Anchor this position has revoked a lot of anger. Fans havesome 49ers been learning is jersey in protest. For some americans, not standing when the american anthem is played is disrespectful. We can take a look at the San Francisco chronicle. Ther Sports Writers says protest is the wrong time and place. It says while sitting out the National Anthem will generate attention, it is unfair who will benefit. Some people support his position. We will look at usa today. Kudo for taking a stand against social. Injustice not is not the time to throw the quarterback under the bus for taking this unpopular stance. Athlete andng the says that somewhere muhammad ali is smiling. He was known for speaking his mind. Anchor so much controversy over debate. They now a restaurant is refusing to serve some muslim customers . Reporter the confrontation was caught on video. This comes from the huffington post. In the video, the man believed to be the chef is seen saying to aren that all muslims terrorists that they killed the priest, and i do not want people like you here. Worry, wesay, do not are leaving. Newhis the rise of some pbobia . People are asking these questions. They demanded answers. Apologized and said the situation has gone out of hand. He was emotional over all of this. Investigation an into the incident. A politician has called for sanctions against the restaurants intolerable behavior. Anchor you have an article about teens. Some are choosing to say no to social media. Reporter interesting article from the wall street journal. A report from the pew research center. Online. Ll teens go daily half are on instagram. This subset of teens choosing to unplug, about 5 . They say they do not feel like they are missing out on anything. They like having interactions in real time, as opposed to interacting with photos on instagram. Much of it turns out to be gossip. That is an interesting point. Teens tend to compare themselves to other. Teens to post things for their like valuees. Anchor you get a closer look on her web site, france24. Com. Just ahead, has some parisians onedayonat with a lydip. Stay tuned. u]c hello. Im johnhn cleese. I think we all know that music, aside from the pure pleasure of it, sometimes has a a transcendt power. 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