Looking for answers. Police continue to investigate following the deadly avalanche in japan. South koreas ousted president is behind bars after she was arrested friday morning as part of the fallout from a corruption scandal. South korean media report prosecutors may indict park geunhye early next month before the beginning of the countrys president ial Election Campaign. Earlier, miki omoto spoke with kim chanju, who has been covering the news at the Detention Center on the outskirts of seoul. Reporter park geunhye is being held inside the detention facility behind me. Its the same facility thats holding at least two other people at the center of the corruption scandal. Her longtime friend choi soonsil and vice chairman of samsung electronics. The facility is heavily protected with riot police. When park was brought here this morning, a group of supporters were already camped out waiting for her. But now only members of the media remain. Police officers are here for possible contingen
An american expert shows his insight into the situation in east asia and japans Foreign Policy. Japan coast guard authorities are increasing their presence near islands in the pacific. Theyve spotted as many as 100 chinese vessels in the area, and they suspect the crews are illegally hunting for coral. Jewelry made from red coral fetches high prices in china. Coast guard authorities have seen a dramatic rise in the number of chinese vessels off the ogasawara and izu islands. They suspect more than 200 crews have been illegally poaching coral since september. As a typhoon approached this week, they moved outside japans territorial waters. But many started sailing back after the storm passed. Coast guard officials now say theyre on a 24hour watch for more boats. Japanese coral gatherers are complaining about the damage caused by suspected chinese poachers. A representative of a fishery cooperative reported his findings to the tokyo metropolitan government. Yukimi sasaki has been gatherin
center, throwing the opening of meetings into disarray. we have a report from durban. reporter: they welcome participants from 119 countries. talks are taking place in africa where experts say impact of global warming can threaten lives of people. the day before, they suffered from the worst storm in years. local authorities say at least five people were killed. here the previous storm caused landslide when mud went into the houses. residents in eastern durban were hit especially hard. they were trying to repair their houses and remove mud from inside. translator: i am traumatized. i don t know where to start. even tonight, i don t know where i m going to sleep. i ve never experienced this. i ve seen it happening in other places, but not here. reporter: climate change can lead to more extreme conditions such as severe heat waves and rainfall. they are asking delegates to speed up negotiations in durban. to make the world climate safe and avoid climate change from sp