Apparently increasing. Nhk learned that china is restricting the number of travelers to tie twan wan. Experts are excessing the damage from two powerful quakes in southwestern japan. They want to find out why some structures survived and others collapsed. A team of engineers is surveying damage around kumamoto castle, a wel wellknown landmark. More than 50 sections of its stone walls collapsed. Theyre trying to determine how the quake affected the ground underneath. They found major cracks in at least six areas. The castle was originally built around 400 years ago. The engineers believe the soil underneath the stone wall is weaker than under some other sections of the structure. Theyre looking at ways of making the castle more resilient against future earthquakes. We want to find the best way to restore and rebuild, so the sections that collapsed in the quakes wont fall down again. A magnitude 7. 3 earthquake hit the kyushu region early on the morning of april 16th. That was two days a
But the protests against the president are growing. And a u for u turn the exam fiasco that forces the english government to abandon an algorithm for grading a level exams. The grades will now be based on teacher predictions. Hello im katty kay in washington, Christian Fraser is in london and we are very happy to be back on air. Its been too long. This is our new time slot, mon thurs. We dont have a name, but thats fine. What we do have is a lot to talk about. Starting with the 2020 Democratic National convention. Which is, lets face it, sort of weird this year. What was meant to happen was that tens of thousands of eager democrats were going to jam the streets of milwaukee, shmoozing, partying, pontificating and formally ratifying their chosen president ial candidate. Covid made that impossible so now its all online and on tv. Katty who has been to eight Party Conventions over the years is secretly relieved, but if like me you are partial to balloons, silly hats, national anthems, big
That the situation could have gotten extremely dangerous. He says they laj aid protest with chi noose ministry. He revealed it happened on january 30th in international waters. He says the vessels were about three kilometers apart. He says Defense Ministry analysts are investigating a separate incident from earlier in january. They suspect a chinese navy frigget trained its weapons on a selfdefense helicopter. Japan and china have wenlocked in a dispute over the senkaku islands. China and taiwan claim the territory. The japanese government nationalized the islands last september. Chinese surveillance ships have been navigating in and around or out of japanese waters near the territory ever since. The area around the islands is believed to be rich in natural resources. The disagreement has affected diplomatic relations and trade. Security analysts are trying to figure out the consequences of what happened out at sea. A former navy capital tin with japans selfdefense force and joins us h
We are following the breaking news out of Virginia Beach, virginia, where the east coast is trying to come to grips with a terrible mass shooting that happened there. By the time Police Arrived and got to the scene, 12 people were already dead, four others seriously wounded. This happened inside a City Building just as workers were preparing to leave for their weekend. Police say a disgruntled longtime city worker entered the building around 4 00 in the afternoon local time and opened fire. He was armed with a semiautomatic handgun and extended magazines and a silencer. An employee described what happened. I was on the first floor and my boss had just left. I heard screams in the parking lot. I assumed there was a car accident or something. Then he called his boss who works right beside me and told us there was a gunman and we needed to shelter in place and we locked our doors. I immediately texted my loved ones and maybe a couple minutes after that i just heard rapid gunfire. That gun
Latest tariff threat on mexico and it is all part of the president s battle over the border. He said if mexico doesnt help, that country will be hit with a 5 tariff on everything from cars to food to beer starting in june. And he said that number will increase 5 every month until it hits a maximum tariff of 25 in october. And that move sparked concern from some Congressional Republicans and outrage from top mexican officials. In an open letter to President Trump, mexicos president wrote in part, quote, social problems are not resolved with tariffs or coercive measures. The statute of liberty is not an empty symbol with all due respect and while you have this sovereign right to express it, your slogan America First is a fallacy. But Sarah Sanders is saying shes defending the decision. Congress should actually fix the laws and we wouldnt have this problem. Mexico should engage with us and we wouldnt have to take any additional steps. But at the same time, the number one duty that the pre