Water from underground tunnels. As leaders in pyongyang celebrate the 60th anniversary of the korean war armistice, the world waits for kim jongun to make his next move. A months worth of rain fell in some parts of western japan on sunday. The downpour led to flooding and landslides. It killed one person with at least three others still missing. The deluge saw more than 100 pms of rain fall per hour in parts of yamaguchi prefecture. A 79yearold woman died when her home collapsed. 200 millimeters of rain slashed the northern part of the prefecture. The downpour left many people stranded. Residents in the northern part of hokkaido have also seen heavy rains. Nhk worlds masayo taqa reports on the disarray. Reporter this is how the downpours have left the cities of haggi in the prefecture. Leaning and covered in mud. This underpass is completely filled with sludge. Towns are covered with mud and rocks. Roads are strewn with logs, lumber and other debris. Mudslides block train tracks. Rescu
From spilling into the ocean. Workers have been solidifying an embankment to prevent ground water from leaking from the plant into the ocean, but there are concerns that the tainted ground water has already overflowed the barrier. Tepco Officials Say theyll bore a smallscale well nearby and pump out contaminated water. They say workers will then sink about 35meet arelong pipes into the ground along the embankment and pump out ground water from them as well starting next week. They hope to drain 100 tons of water per day. Industry Ministry Officials estimate that 300 tons of tainted water is leaking into the ocean daily. Tepco management admits that it still does not know the exact amount of water thats leaking. Its also failed to identify the cause of the recent surge in the radiation levels of ground water in a well in the plant. The well was recently dug near an underground tunnel where highly radioactive water had collected. A Government Panel will meet on thursday to discuss how be
Tsunami two years ago. And japans bullet trains made Highspeed Railway travel a reality. Engineers are now testing a nextgeneration train that sets a new standard for speed. World leaders are considering all options for dealing with the crisis in syria. U. S. President Barack Obama Says he believes Syrian Government forces used chemical weapons on civilians. Obama and his allies are considering military action. The leader of syrias main Opposition Alliance is urging a swift strike against the regime of president bashar al assad. Syrian National Coalition chief made the appeal during talks with french president francois hollande. He stressed the need to seek a political solution, but he added this can only be achieved if the International Community is capable of bringing a stop to the escalation of violence. U. N. Secretary general ban kimoon says a team of investigators investigating the use of chemical weapons will leave on saturday. They will continue investigation activities until t
North korea says it has an ability to miniaturize Nuclear Weapons able to fit onto missiles. But washington is skeptical. Well get the latest from marie harf. Kim jongun parades once starving citizens who tried to flee showing them off exclusively before cnns cameras in an effort to soften the image of his ruthless regime. Is this the latest propaganda tied to kim flexing his countrys nuclear muscle . Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Were following the breaking news the tense confrontation between chineses military and an american spy plane monitoring disturbing developments in disputed waters hundreds of miles off the chinese coast. Thats where beijing is building manmade islands that could serve as launching points for sea battles against the United States and its allies. Were also following the latest isis onslaught with more cities falling to terrorist forces in a bloody offensive that has tens of thousands of people fleeing for their lives right now. And were also lea
Really have no idea isnt that basically correct . The ability of government to follow it on open social media is often murky. People in different agencies have different understandings of what theyre legally allowed to do when it comes to monitoring the communications of americans on open media social platforms. And thats something where a clarification would be very helpful. We can see with isis the massive impact these accounts have had. The amount of people who have been drawn to the syria iraq theater is greater already than it was during the afghan soviet war in terpsmaterials of the number of fighters that have come. It is advantageous to shut these accounts down and this is something that should be the companys decision. The u. S. Authorities have no authority to do that. Then how to counter the growing popularity of isis propaganda. The message u. S. Government officials should constantly say is this group positions itself as the defender of islam but its victims are overwhelmi