Discussions. Translator well make every effort to make tokyo 2020 a sustainable olympics. A task force recently appointed by koike estimated the price of the tokyo games could grow to about 30 billion. Thats about four times the original estimate. The panel advised the governor to review the current venues for three events including rowing and canoeing. Koike is considering the scrapping of plans that require new facilities and instead use existing locations to save money. But changing plans needs the approval of the ioc. During the meeting, thomas bach was receptive to the findings. We see a Great Potential of reduction with regard to what was mentioned in the report. He also suggested to include japans organizing committee and the central government. Koike agreed with the proposal that says she wants to finish her cost cutting plans later this month before further discussions. Heavy clashes in south sudan over the weekend between the government and Opposition Forces have left at least 60 people dead. International media say the fighting broke out near the Northern City of malakal last friday. A Government Spokesperson said said the violence began when antigovernment forces launched an attack. An interim government was launched in april after more than two years of civil war. But fierce clashes erupted between the military and antigovernment forces in juba in july. 21 people were killed last week. The mission in south sudan urged both sides to lay down their arms immediately. Japanese grounds selfdefense forces are taking part in the Peace Keeping mission in the country. Defense minister inada said the sdf personnel are continuing their activities. Translator we consider that the situation is stable in juba where the sdf unit is engaged in its mission. The government is considering whether to assign new duties to sdf personnel who will replace the current unit. Under new security laws sdf units are to come to the aid of foreign peace keepers if they came under attack. A group of 85 japanese lawmakers visited Yasukuni Shrine in tokyo for its autumn festival on tuesday. The shrine honors japans war dead. The group regularly visits the shrine during its spring and autumn festivals as well as on august 15th the day japan commemorates the end of world war ii. Those enshrined there include leaders convicts of war crimes. Prime minister shinzo abe made an offering to the shrine but is unlikely to pay a visit. The last time he went to the shrine was in 2013. Past trips by japanese Prime Ministers have enraged neighboring countries. The liberal Democratic Party spoke to reporters about the Prime Ministers decision not to visit. He said, quote, unquote, the shrines war dead will likely understand abes decision if he took relations with neighbors into account. But he added abe should express regret for not going there. South koreas ministry has expressed deep concern. A spokesperson said in a statement the shrine cannonizes the past. Humbly reflect on the past based on the correct understanding of history. The fight against Islamic State militant group is at a crucial stage but a key offensive to take over mosul is on the way. The offensive backed by the u. S. Was launched monday. Mosul has been under the control of the Islamic State militant group since 2014. The Iraqi Military says its forces have liberated 11 villages around the Northern City. Kurdish Peshmerga Forces took nine villages. The president of iraqs kurdish region said the operation marks a turning point in the fight against terrorism. He said the Iraqi Government and Kurdish Forces have taken back kilometers of farmland vil villages. We are in a Difficult Campaign that could take some time. He also said it remained to be seen whether Islamic State members would stay and fight. But hes confident in the abilities of the iraqis. Mosul is the Islamic State groups major stronghold in iraq. Losing control of it would be a major blow. Mosul was once the second largest city in iraq. And since 2014 it has been ann important centerr for the extremiststs. The oil fields i in the area ara major source of revenue for the group. At one point, the Islamic StateGroup Controlled nearly half of syria and a third of iraq. Following continuous air strikes by the u. S. A at its allies sin 2014. Rebel held areas shrank. By early october they lost what it controlled at the start of last year. But liberating mosul will not be an easy task. Theres still hundreds of thousands of civilians living there. And there are concerns the militants will use them as human shields. As the battle proceeds, waves of people are expected to flee the violence. The u. N. Is trying to prepare for their arrival. Maybe around 1. 2 million idps will b be again, you know, peop will be displaced from mosul. And this has really never happened with this magnitude. It is very difficult, you know. But we will do our best. Unhcr estimates the number of people displaced by the war in iraq has reached 3. 3 million or nearly 1 10 the population. The United Nations sececuri council has strongly condemned norm koreas latest attempted Ballistic Missiles launch. The Security Council issued a press statement on monday following the norths failed mission on saturday. The statement says missile tests contributes to the weapons Delivery Systems and increased tensions in the region. It also urged all u. N. Members to fully implement the sanctions resolution against the country adopted by the council in march. Japans foreign minister says the council has shown strong resolve. Translator japan will continue to work with other countries concerned t to adopt new resesolution against pyongyang. Also, our g government is considering imposing our own sanctions. Chida called for strong resolutions against north korea. Japans heavy machinery factory is scaling down. Gene otani has the details on that and other business headlines. Mitsubishi heavy Industries Says theyll stop making large passenger ships. That came after a s ship redesigned and fire delayed the delivery of vessels to an overseas cucustomer. Executives say theyll stop building the ships at their nagasaki facility unless theres a change in business environment. Competition from china and south korea has been eroding their bottom line. Mitsubishi will instead focus on ferries and tankers at a separate shipyard. They also promote a tie up with other. Shipbuilding led to the founding of mitsubishi heavy industry. Japanese Prime Minister shinzo abe says the Transpacific Partnership deal will help farmers. Its a priority for abe in the current diet session. Translator the free trade pact would give farmers a big chance to boost their income. Abe told a Lower House Committee that the government will continue to push reform of the Agricultural Sector to turn it into a growth industry. And a parliamentary resolution in five key categories such as rice and beef. Abe rejected that argument. He said japanese negotiators had managed to secure exceptions on aboutt 20 of farm products. Also noted that japan has the right to temporarily raise tariffs of imports surge. Checking the markets, tokyo shares ended slightly higher. The benchmark nikkei average eked out gains for three days in a row. The nikkei wavered in and out of negative territory and thin trading. Many investors stayed on the sidelines before the release of chinas gdp data on wednesday. Lets see the closing levels for tuesday, october 18th. The nikkei ended up nearly 0. 4 closing at 16,963. The broader topix also gained 0. 3 . On to currencies, the dollar weakened against major peers along data in new york. It bounced a bit in tokyo trading hours. And individual stocks given the uncertain climate, some defense stocks gained. Nippon suisan gained about 3 . Suzuki motor, bridgestone, and pioneer all ended lower. All in all there are many unclear fact thaers could affect the Global Economy including chinas gdp and the third and final u. S. President ial debate. Investors are waiting for these on wednesday. Im Phoebe Amoroso reporting from the tokyo stock exchange. Other markets in the Asia Pacific Region ended in the positive. The shanghai composite finished at 3,083. The highest in more than a month. After the rates slightly higher than on monday. In the philippines, the pse composite ended up nearly 3 . Expect the president s visit to china will expand trade and investment with the worlds second biggest economy. Hong kong advanced 1. 55 following the rally in the mainland. Indonesia ended up 0. 36 to hit a twoweek high. Heres a look at some of the other business stories were following. Japanese environment minister yamamoto says the government was to regulate the use of hydrofloral carbons or hfcs. They are used as cool labts for refrigerators and air conditioners. The plan comomes afterer the ruo limit production of hfc. Toshiba says it will resume the hiring of new graduates in april 2018. They shut off the hiring due to the scandal. But securing personnel is important for technological development. He says the company will start focusing on selfdriving technology and artificial intelligence. People who work in broadcasting are attending a major trade fair in cannes to buy and sell tv programs. More than 50 japanese broadcasters and Production Companies are showcasing dramas, animation, and other cocontent. Nhk is showing a program in cooperation with the louvre museum. It has 16 times the resolution of current High Definition format. Warning bells are sounding for japans buddhist temples. Their shrinking role in peoples daily lives threatens to put them out of the spirituality business for good. Some chief priests say its time to seek worldly advice. Reporter this temple belongs to one of japans largest buddhist sects. They have been looking at the way for operations. Those changes include the operations of chief administrator. But his background is not temple life, its business. He worked for manany years as a management. Translator theheres no fe for temples if they try to survive just by providing Funeral Services and managing graveyards. Reporter earlier this year. Yasunaga opened not far from the temple. Activities here are open to all members of the public. This man is giving a lecture on inheriting wealth. Its presented in the style of traditional japanese comedy. Other courses offer buddhism classes in english and yoga lessons. Some classes are free. For others there are a small fee. He says the goal is to widen the temples role in peoples lives. Translator to survive we have to go out into the cities and we need to change e the waye meet peopoples needs. For instance, we can help ordinary Office Workers solve problems that are distressing them. Or fulfill their intellectual interests in their time of work or on their days off. Reporter other monks are going out into the world. This man is taking the night back from nara city. Two years ago his temple opened a branch in the heart off tokyo. Its called the temple for everyone. On one week rotations. One of the key services is consultation. True to the temples name, anyone can walk in off the street and ask for advice. Translator i get irritated easily in my daily life. The frustrations get to me at home as well as at work. Reporte translator in buddhism we define suffering as living which means things dont always go the way one wishes. Its a struggle too get the lif we want. Translator after talking to a monk, i feel mentally and physically refreshed. Reporter people seek help on everything. From trouble at home to frustration at work. Priests keep a record of their consultations. Now running at more than 100 a month. That helps them offer s some continuity in their advice for repeat visitors. Translator many people are struggling with relationship problems. I believe the aim of our work is to have people think they want to come again. I will keep doing my best. Reporter this outreach work seems to be bearing fruit for the home temple back in nara. To serve people in the local area. Priests now say they are getting requests from tokyo. Theyve taken more than 700 bookings for Memorial Services from people in and outside the parish. The temple recenently set up a w graveyard open to all sects of buddhism. Translator i think the temple is approaching the original form of what it used to be. We welcome anyone who comes. We feel that this is a temple for everyone. Reporter reformers say modern management thinking can help keep temple doors open. If thats true, it may also give monks a more active role in the community. And you can catch our report again online with a full transcript. Look for nhk world and business wrap. Thats a lookk at businesess ne. Im going to leave you with the markets. The Nobel Foundation says it has yet to make contact with bob dylan. The nobel prize in lititerate for 2016 is awarded to bob dylan. An officicial foror thehe foundation told nhk on monday the committee has made repeated attempts to reach dylan. Dylan reportedly made no comment at all about the p prize during scheduled concert appearance soon after last weeks announcement. The officials said they will wait for his reply and wont try to contact him any further. They say it remains unclear whether dylan will attend the awards ceremony in sweden in december. They added that the laureate cannot receive the prize money if he fails to deliver a commemorative lecture. Sport climbing has become increasingly popular in japan even month people with disabilities. Our next story shows how a paraclimber is drawing on success to promote the sport. Reporter when it comes to sport climbing, kobayashi is one of the best in the world. Even though he is virtually sightless. Translator right, right. Down, down. Okay. Right, right, right. Reporter the climbers make their way up artificial rock walls using supports. Kobayashi sees nothing, so he has to rely on his coachs direction. Translator when i grab one hold, it makes me want to reach the next. The challenge is to do my very utmost. Reporter kobayashi took up sport climbing at 16. But due to retina problems, his vision started to fade when he was 28 and soon he couldnt even see peoples faces. He became very depressed, but then he met an american mountaineer who climbed mt. Everest despite being totally blind. Translator i never imagined a blind person c could climb mt everest. I realize visually impaired people can do much more than i thought. Reporter kobayashis passion for climbing was reconsistent ld. Since 2011 he has represented japan in many tournaments for the visually impaired. Thanks to his strong sense of spatial awareness, once he touches a hold, he remembers its position. He also has great flexibility. This has helped him power to victory in ae paraclimbing World Championship three times. Kobayashi also holds workshops around the country to promote sport climbing among people with disabilities. To date, more than 2,000 people have joined in his workshops. One is this 16yearold. He has been training with kobayashi since 2010. Hes also been picked for the japanese team. Translator i admire kobayashi. Not only because hes a great climber, but also because hes promoting sport climbing for people with disabilities. Translator i think when people are able to do things they had thought impossible, they find confidence. And potential in themselves. Reporter kobayashis aim is not just to get more people involved in sport climbing. He is also campaigning for it to be included as an official paralympic event. Cloudy weather is the forecast for us in tokyo where the current temperature reading is about 23 degrees celsius or 73 degrees fahrenheit. Sayaka mori joins us with the latest on typhoon sarika. The typhoon made landfall in hainan this morning. And because it has been moving at a slow pace, the center is still moving over the island. Because of the slow motion, heavyy rainfall fell in just 24 hours over 500 millimeteters of rain fell in pararts off hainan. Thats double the amount we normally see during the entire month of october. And powerful winds of about 160 Kilometers Per Hour reported as well. Now, sarika is encompassing the whole island in a storm warning zone. That means winds are going to be up to 90 Kilometers Per Hour with much higher gusts. The system will likely move up north at a slow pace and will likely hit the region by wednesday local time. Powerful winds, storm surge, heavy rainfall, all of them are expected. Right n now its a strong typho and is expected to weaken a bit. Still a powerful typhoon, itss going to hit portions of mainland chinand vietnam as well. Last week a tropical depression made l landfall in central vietnam. It caused heavy rainfall killing at least 24 people. It looks like vietnam wilill mi much of it this time. We can see another a area of ra extending from the right side of the screen. This is typhoon haima. This is a very strong typhoon at this moment. And its packing wind gusts over 250 Kilometers Per Hour. The system will likely hit the north of the philippines once again where thai foon sarika made landfall on susunday. Please still be prepared for this storm. Watch outut for strong winds an heavy rainfall as well. After affececting the philippin, haima will likely hit the north into the latter part of this week. Now lets go to japan. Opposed to the south, its quite calm in many places including tokyo. Tokyos high was 266 degrees. Thats about 5 Degrees Higher than normal. Some spotty showers expected for the side of the country. But temperatures are going to be warmer than average in many places. The temperature is going to be 16 on wednesday. But as we go to friday, cooling down to 7 degrees with snsnow expected. But tokyo will remain on the warmer side into the weekend. Now lets go to north america. We saw some snowfall up in the mountains. We have some video from Sierra Nevada. Flurries descented upon the Sierra Nevada mountains. Freezing fog is expected on both tuesday and wednesday morning. But temperatures are expected to rise in the western portions of the united states. Meanwhile, warm weather is gripping much of the eastern united states. We saw some record high temperatures in many places on monday. And temperatures are going to be as follows on tuesday. 30 in atlanta and about 30 degrees in the u. S. Capital as well as new york city. Temperatures will remain on the warmer side on friday. But sharply drops on your saturday. Thats it for me now. Heres the extended forecast. That wraps it up for us here on nhk newsline. Hello and welcome to live from paris. Iraqi troops with the help of International Airstrikes continue their campaign to take most from the Islamic State group. Thousands ofeds of people are now trapped in that besieged city. A 702i have an hour truce is set to begin