Flee the violence. And executives at Japanese Companies are competing for new recruits by making the hiring process a family affair. The operator of the Fukushima DaiichiNuclear Plant has begun dismantling the cover of a reactor building. The work is in preparation to remove nuclear fuel from a spent fuel storage pool in 2017. But fears remain that radioactive materials might spread to outside the facility during the process. Tokyo electric Power Company has started work at the number one reactor building. The cover was put on in 2011. They will Spray Chemicals through holes drilled into the cover to try to prevent from radioactive dust from scattering. The operator hopes to begin fullscale dismantling of the cover next march and complete the task in about a year. It expects to start clearing the debris in 2016. Some fear that rice paddies were contaminated last year. The operator says it will monitor the possible spread of radioactive materials and disclose the data on its website. The japanese government is planning to send a team of delegates to north korea. Theyll review the progress in the investigation into the fate of missing japanese citizens including those abducted by north korean agents. But the officials will not conduct their own probe. The delegation will include the head of the Foreign Ministrys asian and Oceania Affairs bureau. Their expected to reiterate the governments position that resolving the abduction issue is the top priority. Delegations were sent to north korea in 2002 and 2004. They visited locations and facilities believed to be associated with the abductees. This time the delegation is expected to discuss the matter with a Senior Member of north koreas special investigation committee. The officials are likely to stay in pyongyang for a few days. Both sides are arranging the meeting through their embassies in china. Japanese government Officials Say at least 17 of their nationals were kidnapped in the 1970s and 80s by north korean agents. Twelve of them are still missing. Officials in the United States say an american detained by north korea for five months is now free. Jeffrey fowle was one of three u. S. Citizens being held. The other two are still in captivity. We confirm that Jeffrey Fowle has been allow stood depart from the dprk. And is on his way home to rejoin his family. Harf says fowle is in good condition. He entered as a tourist in april and detained the following month. North korean officials accused him of what they call hostile conduct. A propyongyang group in japan published an interview with fowle this month. In it he urged u. S. Officials to work to secure his release. H are arf said the u. S. Government will try to get the two other americans freed. North korean authorities have sentenced kenneth bea and Matthew Miller to hard labor. Officials from japan, china, and south korea have met for the first time to discuss ways to respond to cyberattacks. They agreed to make efforts to advance confidence building in this field. Chinas Foreign Ministry hosted the meeting. The japanese delegation included officials from the ministries of defense and internal affairs. Details of the discussions were not disclosed but they reportedly agreed to continue their talks on the subject. China has been criticized by the u. S. And other countries for its involvement in cyberattacks and spying. Japanese Officials Say their chinese counterparts explained the countrys policies on combatting cyberattacks. The three nations agreed to facilitate cooperation on the issue in 2012. But there had been no face to face talks until tuesdays meeting because of soured relations with japan. Iran has pledged wide support to iraq in its fight against Islamic State militants. The Insurgent Group is gaining ground in northern and western iraq despite air attacks by the u. S. And its allies. Iraqi prime minister, Haider Al Abadi visited tehran for the First Time Since he formed a new government last month. He held talks with the iranian president , roe hassan rouhani. He called for irans cooperation in fighting Islamic State. He said the group is a threat to the entire middle east. Rouhani said his country will provide all kinds of support to its neighbor. Shia dominated iran sees the sunni militant group as a major threat. Iran has been providing weapons to Kurdish Forces in Northern Iraq who are fighting Islamic State in the region. The northern syrian city of ayn alarab or kobani in the kurdish language, is the latest focus of International Efforts to halt the campaign by Islamic State extremists. The city sits on the Turkish Border and the kurds are the majority of its population. Kurdish forces are trying to defend the city with help of the u. S. Led coalitions. Residents have been fleeing and taking refuge on the other side of the border. Freelance journalist kenji goto reports. Reporter the city of ayn alarab is just a stones throw away from the Turkish Border town of suruc. [ speaking Foreign Language ]. As many as 180,000 people from syria have poured in since Islamic State started attacking their hometown. Theres no official refugee camp around. They are scattered everywhere. 50yearold yosef talubini says he fled syria two days ago with 14 other families. Translator fighters of Islamic State suddenly appeared and took away our belongings and land. They killed men, women and children. We had no choice but to run away. Reporter 120 members are taking shelter at an unfinished building with bare concrete floors. They didnt bring much with them. Local people have given them some mattresses and tarps. They get water from a nearby mosque. Translator i have never imagined sleeping at a construction site. I heard on the news that the u. S. And france were helping the kurds. But we receive no help. Reporter this day was an important holiday for muslim people. Women were cooking mutton they managed to find. Translator in our village we were safe and sound. Now children ask for this and that, but we cannot give them what they want. Reporter u. S. Coalition forces have been bombarding Islamic State targets. The u. S. Militarys Central Command said the air strikes appear to have slowed the militant groups advance. On sunday, the u. S. Military air dropped weapons, ammunition and medical supplies to Kurdish Forces defending the city on the ground. But these men from the area say the attacks of the coalition have so far achieved little. I asked them about foreign fighters of Islamic State. Translator Islamic State fighters hardly spoke arabic. Many were speaking french. Even if we pleaded for help they did not understand. They refused to listen to women and children. Anyone who did not obey their orders was killed. Reporter Islamic State advance is pushing more people out of their homes. And refugees are multiplying, creating a new humanitarian crisis. Kenji goto for nhk world, suruc, turkey, near the syrian border. Its time now for Business News. Ai uchida joins us with the latest. Regulators in some western countries are clamping down on people who move to tax havens to avoid paying taxes on profits from stock trading. Japanese officials are looking at adopting a similar policy. Some japanese avoid taxes by moving to places like hong kong or singapore. Financial Ministry Officials said that what countries have done to prevent the tax avoidance. Panel members will introduce steps to deal with the problem and consider waving taxes for people who dent sell stocks during a certain period of time before returning to japan. The trade balance is still in the red. September marked the 27th straight month when imports outweighs exports. Thats the longest run of trade short falls since data became available in 1979. The Officials Say the preliminary figures show the deficit last month was 8. 9 billion. Thats 1. 6 more in yen terms than a year ago. The shortfall is bigger than what analysts projected. The balance of trade has been in the red since july 2012. Increased shipments of autos and steel helped boost exports 6. 9 in yen terms and thats from the same month last year. But higher demand for smartphones and fuel in thermal Power Generation pushed up imports by 6. 2 . The trade deficit from april to december was more than 50 billion. Thats a record for the first half of the fiscal year. They say the continuing rise in fuel imports has become a longterm trend. Lets see whats happening on the markets this morning. Investors in asia are tracking the strong gains from europe and the wall street. The nikkei is in positive territory and regaining some of tuesdays 2 loss. Index currently up at 1. 6 . Hong kongs hang seng extending its winning streak to a fourth straight day. The benchmark index is higher by. 6 . And in shanghai, stocks are trading in the negative. But still near their 22month highs. The shanghai composite down just a touch. Currency traders are selling the euro on reports that the European Central bank may start buying corporate bonds. The ecb is ready to pump on more money in the regions economy. The euro dollar trading in the low ore 1. 27 range. Analysts expect the euro to remain under selling pressure. The dollar yen is in the higher 106 levels. The u. S. Commerce secretary wants japanese officials to show more flexibility in negotiations on the Transpacific Partnership free trade deal. Let us not forget the opportunity presented by completing the tpp is profound. Penny pritzker was speaking to Japanese Business leaders on tuesday in tokyo. Talks between japanese and american trade officials are in the final stages. She says they are making progress in the farm and auto sectors but its she says there is still a lot to do. Pritzker says that japan and the u. S. Need to show leadership. I think whats important is the countries that are participating in tpp represent 40 of the worlds gdp. By segment standards and having an agreement that respects the kind of values that japan and the United States share, that will set an example for other parts of the world. Pritzker says she hopes that summit meetings at the apec forum will help push forward the negotiations. Official at the European Union are telling bankers to mend their ways. They are handing down fines totaling more than 120 million to three banks for rig a key interest rate. The Officials Say u. S. Banking giant j. P. Morgan and ubs and Credit Suisse manipulated the prices of derivatives and libor. Thats the interbank lending rate on the london market. European regulators in december handed out fines totally more than 2 billion to six other Financial Institutions for their role in the scandal. Executives at some of japans small firms are adopting a new approach to solving their labor shortage. They say more and more graduates are declining job offers under influence of their parents and aspiring to work at a larger corporation. So now the executives are make the hiring process a family affair. Reporter this venture firm designs and creates store signs. It currently employs 70 people. To expand its business further the firm gave 17 young job applicants offers for work this year. But the companys president received some troubling news. Four of the applicants turned down the job offers. They said their parents were against the idea because the company is small. Translator in the final round of interviews the candidates often say their parents worry about whether they can trust our company. Reporter noticing the trend this Employment Agency is checking whether applicants have obtained their parents approval to work at a Given Company before they go to the final interview. The agency also asks about their parents concerns. Translator more applicants are declining job offers so were focusing on convincing their parents. Reporter to ease the parents concerns, Company Leaders are taking action. Nishisaka invited the parents of prospective employees to his office. His staff shows the parents around the office and tell them about how the Company Works so they can feel confident about their children work there. Then nishisaka explained his companys panel status. Translator our sales were around 4 million at the time of the global crisis. We were still in the red. But as you can see we have moved into the black and steadily continued growing overall. Reporter after the briefing, nishisaka and the employees held a gathering with the parents. The president listens to what kinds of concerns the parents have about his company. Translator my son likes the idea of working at a venture business. That makes me all the more worried. Translator i understand. Reporter nishisaka gives them his Business Card and asks them to contact him if they have any questions. Translator im dwglad to ta to the president in person and get to know him. Now i feel more positive about my son working here. Reporter nishisaka hopes that by engaging the parents they will trust him and agree to their children starting work at his firm. Translator business is all about people. To hire people, we also have to think about ways to get their families to learn more about us. Reporter the approach this companys taking is paying off. And other companies are following suit. And thats all for now on Business News. Ill leave you with a check on markets. Every morning, investors turn their attention to asia, the tokyo market leads the way and markets around the world follow. From the decisions that could change the course of an economy. To the companies at the forefront of change. Up to the minute market reports. And analysis by specials from around the world. Get all the latest Business News and insight every day, here on newsline. French health Officials Say theyre ready to take on ebola in west africa. They plan full scale clinical testing to try to combat ebola in west africa. A drug has been developed by a japanese company. Translator well conduct a Clinical Study with the medicine favipiravir. Well know the result by the end of this year. A team from the French National institute of health and medical research will conduct the testing. The medicine was developed as an antiinfluenza drug by a subsidiary of japans fujifilm corporation. Favipiravir has yet to be approved as a treatment for ebola, but it was administered as an emergency measure on patients in france and spain. Researchers say they chose the drug because its already available in large amounts. They also said the drug is easy to administrator because its taken orally. The team will test the drug on about 50 patients in southern guinea. If the results are positive, the medicine will be given to more patients to confirm its effectiveness and safety. And officials at the World Health Organization are also planning to start clinical tests of ebola drugs in west africa, but their choice of medicines is still limited. Effective drugs for ebola are still unavailable seven months after the w. H. O. Reported the outbreak of the disease. The experimental drug zmapp is developed by a u. S. Firm, is said to have worked on some patients, but stocks reportedly ran out and its not known if the company will produce the drug again. The w. H. O. Team is working with britains oxford university, along with the ngo, doctors without borders. They plan to start clinical tests in west africa next month. W. H. O. Officials are now choosing medicines to test. The number of ebola patients is on the rise. More than 9,200 people have contracted or are suspected of contracting the virus. Health experts say the number could top 10,000 this week. Its time now for a check of the weather. People in tokyo are feeling a little chilly this morning. Meteorologist robert speta tells us what we can expect up ahead. We are seeing this frontal area which is continuing to linger overhead and as we look ahead the rest of the day, these gray skies and cooler temperatures will continue to linger as well. What we are going to see is fairly heavy rainfall taking place for western portions of japan. One location is seeing 80 millimeters over a 12hour period. All thats going to continue to shift off here to the east, though, and into tokyo by your afternoon and into the evening hours. Were going to see the rain showers continue to pick up. Even a threat of isolated thunderstorms and also in inland areas a threat of flooding or potential for landslides. Localized on the steeper elevations, that is. But as it pushes off to the east what we are seeing is a cooler air mass come in from the north and temperatures will reflect that. Tokyo with a high of 16 on your wednesday. Thursday down to 14 and your overnight lows may push into the Single Digits for you. Staying on the chilly side. Lets move over to europe and talk about this. You can see it on the satellite imagery. This is exhurricane gonzalo pushing across the British Isles and we have seen gusty winds out of this. Upwards of 100 Kilometers Per Hour parts of scotland and down to the south. And all of that is continuing to shift off to the east. But i want to show you what it looked like out here with these high winds. We had one report of a death due to a tree falling down. Lets go ahead and roll this video coming out of the uk. Where you had all this taking place. We had one death and three people were injured due to the falling tree. Gusts up to 113 kilometers an hour reported in one location. And the storm caused severe travel disturbances. A frightening plane landing here. You can see the plane wonling in the air and coming downsideways due to these cross winds. Im sure the pilots had a rough time and the people on board that flight a very scary situation. That plane did land safely out there but there were numerous cases of that exact scenario taking place because of the storm. Now is it shifting to the east. Parts of germany and northern portions of the balkans are going to be seeing a threat of severe thunderstorms out here. Even in the higher elevations, snowfall coming out of this. 30 to 40 centimeters. Moscow with a high of minus 2, warsaw at 10. Moscow, actually will continue to cool off. The snow is tapering off but it is still going to be rather chilly here with a high of minus 9 on thursday. Lets move over to the americas now. I do want to talk about this. What we have been seeing is a tropical low developing in the gulf of mexico and extending to the northeast, we have a cold front bringing rain showers for the florida peninsula and in the northeast we have a noreaster. Its given this name because of the strong northeasterly winds that come onshore. It could bring coastal flooding in new england and in the canadian maritimes and nova scotia. But, the good news is that the rain that is coming down is needed. We have a moderate drought in some areas out here. So upwards of 100 to 120 millimeters of precipitation very well could occur. That will bring some relief to the drought you have been seeing. Could be seeing airport delays if you are traveling to parts of new england on your wednesday. Heres your extended forecast. And thats all for this. And thats all for this edition of newsline. Im Catherine Kobayashi in tokyo. Thanks for joining us. If good evening. From los angeles, im tavis smiley. Tonight a conversation with Kristen Stewart who put the twilight saga in her rearview mirror. Shes getting acclaim and push back for camp xray in which she plays a young mp assigned to gitmo whose interactions with the detainee prompts her to rethink her political views. We are glad you joined us for a conversation with Kristen Stewart. Coming up right now