Translator i rushed to the royal palace as soon as i learned citizens could go there to mourn. I wish that this had never happened. Translator this is the saddest day of my life. Im a Public Servant and the king has always been my role model. If i could do just one of the things he did for the people, this would be a better country. Translator this will be my last chance to pay my respects to the king. I pray that he will find peace in heaven. In central bangkok, almost everyone was wearing black. Interim Prime Minister tanocha called on people to refrain from festivities for 30 days. But he asked people to continue their Economic Activities as usual. The king ascended the throne at age 18 shortly after world war ii. He guided thailand during Turbulent Times in Southeast Asia which was mired in war, genocide, and poverty. He was regarded as a pillar of stability and occasional mediator in thailands turbulent politics. The country has experienced more than ten military coups since the end of the absolute monarchy in 1932. The interim Prime Minister says he met with the crown prince following the announcement of the kings passing. The crown prince is the kings only son. He indicated his accept to take the throne. But he says the crown prince asked for time to mourn for his father. People here in tokyo were also responding to the news of the kings death. The flag in front of the thai embassy is flying at halfmast. Many have come to write messages in a book of condolences. Translator the king worked hard for thailand. I love him. Im so grateful for him. I feel very sad. The king is the second father of my life. Translator i came here to remember the king as a japanese who loves thailand. Governments and leaders around the world also extended condolences over the passing of king bhumibol. And improvement of Living Standards was his historic achievement. He said the monarch served as a pillar of support for citizens. Representatives attending the u. N. General assembly in new york observed a moment of silence. Secretary general ban kimoon told the assembly the king had worldwide respect. I hope that thailand will continue to honor King Bhumibols legacy of commitment, universal values, and respect for human rights. President barack obama called the king a friend of the u. S. He said he recalls the kings grace and warmth as well as his deep compassion for his people. Russian president Vladimir Putin sent a telegram to thailand. He said the king will be remembered in russia for his support of friendship and cooperation between the countries. Chinas president xi jingping also sent a message. Indonesian president released a statement saying the world has lost a leader who not only was close to the people but a bearer of peace, unity, and prosperity for the people of thailand. The United NationsGeneral Assembly has appointed former portuguese Prime Minister as the ninth secretary general. Guterres. I have witnessed first hand the suffering of the most Vulnerable People on earth. This makes me feel the acute responsibility to make Human Dignity the core of my work. Incumbent secretary general ban kimoon says guterres is a wonderful choice. Ban says his job is to steer on the progress of the past decade while daesing the uncertainties of todays world. Guterres will begin his fiveyear term on january 1st. Japan has not yet made its financial contribution to unesco for this year. It has urged the body to make changes to its program that protects important documents. Foreign minister kishida said they will make a comprehensive decision on what it will do. The annual payments are usually made around may. Suga criticized unesco last year for adding documents to the world register. The documents refer to a specific incident. He said it should not be used for political purposes. He documents say more than 300,000 chinese were killed after the former Japanese Army entered the area in 1937. But thahat determining the exac figure is difficult. Suga says the government is considering options including ending annual payments to the agency. Unesco expects all member nations to pay dues each year. Five years ago the u. S. Stopped making payments nap made japan the largest contributor with about 36 million due this year. Japan is busy preparing for the 2020 olympics and paralympics and has added another item to the list of things to tackle. Second hand smoke. A report from the World Health Organization describes japans measures to passive smokes among the weakest in the world. Translator the Host Companies of past olympics have introduced fines and other measures to limit passive smoking. Its japans turn. The Health Ministry conducted an inndepth study of what measures it will introduce. It plans a ban for most indoor spaces such as restaurants and hotels. Also under considerations are fines. Both for smokers and facilities that break the rules. Japans National Cancer center says lung cancer, strokes, and other diseases claim around 15,000 lives in the country a year. Tackle issues of concern including north korea. Highgh level officicials got togetherer in moscow to set the terms of the annual dialogueue. It was the first meeting of its kind in more than three and a half years. The japanese contingent asked russia to support a Security Council resolution for new sanctions in north korea. And why they opposed the planned deployment of an antimissile system in south korea. They said it poses a threat to russias security. Translator we were able to discuss a wide range of issues. And we agreed to continue with preparationsns. Tokyo iss laying the ground work for productive talks on the northern territories before the plan by putin later this year. The japanese government maintains the four russian controlled islands are an inherent part of japans territory. It says the islands were illegally occupied after world war ii. The issue has prevented the countries from signing a peace treaty. Now onto business news. Samsung electronics is predicting a major hit from the smartphone failure. Gene otani has more on that and other top biss headlines. Samsung officials said friday they expect a loss of the sixmonth period to next march. The global halt to production and s sales of the galaxy note smartphone is a blame. The Company Began selling the phone in the u. S. , s south kore, and otherer countries excluding japan in aust. But samsung was forced to offer replacements after complaints that the phones batteries were catching fire. The galaxy note 7 was pulled worldwide this week. Samsung Officials Say they will now totally review t their qualy test process to strengthen product safety. The Officials Say theyll try to erase the loss by expanding sales of existing products. B but. Thailand hosts thousands of Japanese Companies as the nation mourns the death of king bhumibol. Some factories have temporarily closed. A major beef chain will refrain from playing music. Employees will wear black arm bands. Family Market Convenience store chain and aeon will keep its doors open. But many manufacturers are suspended production. Canon halted at all three plants in thailand on friday. Printer maker ricoh own unicharm have also closed their plants. Electronics maker hitachi reported not to work on friday unless necessary. Executives at a Major Telecom operator said theyre going to set up a 100 billion fund. Softbank group plans to contribute at least 25 billion over the next five years. One of its subsidiaries is expected to manage the fun. The executives also say theyve concluded a state affiliated Public Investment fund to put in at least 45 billion over the next five years. Softbank says a few large Global Investors are in ongoing talks to also talk part. Softbanks chairman says the fund will be the biggest investor over the next decade. Checking the markets, tokyo share prices posted a gain. The dollars bound supported sentiment. Giang nguyen reports. Better than expected inflation gave a boost. Snapped two days of losses. Lets see the levels for this friday, october 14th. The nikkei ended up 0. 5 closing at 16,856. The broader topix also gained more than 0. 3 . The strong Chinese Consumer and Producer Prices gave the dollar a bit of a spike. It edged higher against the yen. The b benchmark earlier this session but we saw gains on inindex off heheavyweights. Softbank added 3. 3 . The Telecom Giant says its setting up a 100 billion fund that will invest in i. T. And fast retailining also jumpe nearly 5 . The operator off the uniqlo Clothing Brand with a record operatingg profitt this fiscal year. As for the week, the nikkei ended almost flat following worse than expected chinese data. Theyre nowow bracing for gdp da from the worlds second largest economy out next wednesday. Im giang nguyen. Moving on to other markets. Thailand had no disruption after the death of the king. Thais insex rebounded index by 4. 6 . The tie bhatt went up. Limited effect in the country. The shanghai composite ended just slightly higher. But the figures boosted shares. The Southern Region of kyushu is getting much needed help. A typhoon hit the area last month as a severe natural disaster. The move will m make eligible f state assistance. Typhoon malakakas brought recor rainfall to southern kyushu submerging farmlands across the region. Cabinet Office Officials have been calculating the cost of damage to farms and agricultural facilities. It comes to 23 million and 13 million. The typhoon is thought to have caused a total o of 54 million mainly in west japan. They plan to issue next week. The Central Government assistanance willl cover up to of the cost of doing reconstruction work. Investors around the world have been wondering what to make of the chinese economy. Numbers for september show a mixed picture. Recent data released shows that price trends are relatively steady. The Producer Price index rose 0. 1 . But trade is a source of concern. Numbers were weak with exports down 10 from a year earlier. Imports down 1. 9 . Next week officials will release the latest Gross Domestic Product numbers. We started by asking about his take on the disappointing trade data. The chinese is slowing down. Somehow this has helped competitiveness abroad. But we also need to look at the situation and the cost of doing business is rising quite fast. And the competitiveness of the chinese products has been not performing so well. So i think that the trading data in main for both import and export may not be doing so well. So that is something we should look at among the other sectors. I think the trade sector is the worst performing sectors. What you are expecting for Third Quarter gdp. Especially want to know what you are focusing on. What in particular . I think generally speaking the Chinese Government has 6. 5 growth rate for this year. Actually performing better than what we have expected. Because a lot of package has been in place. Also we see the domestic manufacturing sectors has been also performing relatively well as well. Because of the government policy to support them. Also the market has been performing well. I think all this actually contribute to a more Sustainable Growth in chinese economy. I think that is something we should look at. Okay. And what would be the risk factors for the economy . Even if the data we see next week is relatively stable . Well, chinese economy is actually facing a lot of challenge. First of all, Chinese Governments already tackling the property market. We may see a slow down in the next six months. If that happens, things like that will be affected. If that persists, that may create capital outflow on the chinese economy that will hurt the Capital Market performance as well. Also as weakens from the latest top performance. We see a wave of bankruptcy. If that wave persists, i think the bank assets quality and particularly the credit line, things like that will be affected. So the Fourth Quarter will be more challenging than the Third Quarter. I think that is something we should be, you know, look at as well. You can catch our report again online with a full transcript. Look for nhk world and business wrap. Thats a look at business. Ooum going to leave you with the markets. As we reported yesterday, american singer song writer bob dylan won this years nobel prize in literature. While fans of his music may be ecstatic, the announcement came as a surprise to many especially here in japan where many had their hearts set on a different winner. Translator i think its great. I used to listen to him all the time. Translator hes a musician so him being awarded the literature prize is refreshing. Reporter the initial reaction in japan similar to global sentiment. Many are happy about bob dylans nobel prize. But not everyone fee the same way. Translator what . Bob dylan . Reporter many were expecting news that an author here would get the prize. Translator im so surprised. Translator how do you feel now . Translator i feel like im being g blown in the wind. Reporter while dylan was honored for having created new poetic expressions within the american song tradition, the author is a long time writer admired globally for a number of novels included norwegian wood. At this bookstore, his display was all ready to go. But once the news brbroke, staf set up a special corner dedicated to the works of bob dylan. Translator bob dylan has always been popular. So we do have some cds. But there arent so many in stock. We might be in short supply for awhile. Reporter in the meantime, bob dylan fans can head to places likee this tokyoyo bar a enjoy the writing of this years winner in music form. Translator the lyrics are difficult to understand at first, but theres a depth and it draws the imagination. Im happy if he was awarded the prize for that. Reporter nhk world, tokyo. And its time now for World Weather with sayaka mori. People in parts of the philippines are bracing for the arrival of a powerful storm. Sayaka, whats the latest . Yes, a severe Tropical Storm is located just to the east of the philippines. This system is already bringing some heavy rainfall and strong winds to the midportions of the country. Now, this one is expected to slowly make its way towards the northwest. And rapidly intensify. This system could become a strong typhoon and will likely hit luzon by your sunday. Manila which is one of the most Populated Areas in the world could be impacted with heavy rainfall and winds. We will see some staggering amounts of heavy rainfall for much of the philippines. Now, after affecting the philippines, the system will likely hit towards hainan and also vietnam. These areas are already dealing with Copious Amounts of heavy rainfall due to a tropical depression which is now moving over vietnam. This is not good news. The tropical depression will likely become a low pressure system and will likely head towards laos and also the north of thailand. Now, theres another tropical depression right here and this system could become a Tropical Storm. So it has been a very busy typhoon season across the western pacific. Now, temperatures are as follows. 30 in hong kong with partly sunny weather. Nice and beautiful weather in tokyo. 23 for the high with abundancec of sunshine. Even warmer in seoul. 25 for the high on your saturday. Now lets go to the atlantic. We talked about hurricane nicole. Now, nicole moves right over the Bermuda Islands on thursday. Now, these areas are actualllly frequently hit by Tropical Storms, but hurricanes of this intensity are extremely rare. We have some video of strong winds and heavy rainfall from bermuda. This footage was taken just before the arrival of the hurricane. 90 of the population dealt with power outages. But no casualties have b been reporteded so far. R. Schools and government offices will remain closed on friday. Powerful winds of about 200 Kilometers Per Hour reported in bermuda. Now, this system is pulling away from the area, but because of the intensity, this system will cause some high waves to the southeast coast of the united states. Also bermuda for the next couple of days. And as we go into friday, Atlantic Canada will also see some high waves. Theres a low pressure system coming into the coastal areas here. This is causing heavy snowfall and freezing rainfall for parts of western canada. This is causing high waves across the coast. High wave warnings in place for places like north of california, shshington, ororegon, and also brbritish columbia. And a as we go into saturday, t most powerful system of the three storms will likely reach the coastal locations. Were expxpecting up t to 500 millimeters of rainfall to the north of california along with hurranee force wind gusts and waves are going to be gigananti up to 8 meters. Dangerous conditions expected once again on your saturday. The risk of flooding will remain high for the next several days. And temperatures are cooling down to the midteens in vancouver as well as seattle and cooling down significantly in washington, d. C. As well. 18 degrees but beautiful weather for you. And across the south, 32 inn houston on friday. And across europe, a couple of systems are causing very bad weather in parts of france and also the north of italy. 220 millimeters of rain fell in parts of spain over the last 24 hours or so. More Severe Weather is expected for the similar area. And here are your expected highs on your friday. Heres extended forecast. More special reports from kyushu are on the menu on newsroom tokyo at the top of the hour. From all of us here on nhk newsline, than8uxu molly welcome to the france 24 newsroom. I am molly hall. Heres is a look at the headlines we are following. A nation in mourning. For the first time in 70 years, thailand is without a king. Residents lined the strings of dusty streets of bangkok for a procession. The first ever primary debate for the republican. A new format for a