More and more schools close, and theyre feeling the impact in their communities. People in north korea are observing the end of traditional mourning for their former leader kim jongil, died three years ago. Staterun media is commemorating kims life, and also highlighting the reign of his son and successor. At noon local time north korean staterun television observed three minutes of silence in kims honor. It has also been broadcasting a series of commemorative programs about him. People in pyongyang have been laying flowers on the streets in memory of the late leader. Military personnel bowed before his statue. Two senior bhebs of the Chinese Community party made condolence visits in beijing. Liu yunshan is a Standing Committee member of the political bureau. Wang jiarui is head of the partys international department. China has traditionally been north koreas closest ally. Relations had cooled since kim jongun had his uncle executed about a year ago on treason charges. The condolence v
Has transformed into a winter play ground. Well take you live to the 66th annual sapporo snow festival. Jordanian military commanders say their fighter jets have inflicted heavy losses on Islamic States. They increased their air strikes on the ground in recent days after the militants announced they killed one of the countrys pilots. But concerns remain that one of the bombings may have cost an american hostage her life. Nhk worlds craig dale has more. Reporter with bombing after bombing, jordans air force chief says his country is pummeling Islamic State. Where they sleep and eat. Training centers, depots weapons, ammunitions, fuel. Reporter Major General Mansour Al Jobour says fighter jets carried out 56 air strikes from thursday to saturday. Jordan ramped up its bombings on Islamic State in syria after the Group Announced it killed jordanian pilot Moaz Kasasbeh by burning him to death. Now the militants say an american hostage died in one of those bombings. They say they were holdin
Suspicion of human trafficking. They say theyre part of a smuggling ring from africa. The group is suspected of smuggling more than 5,000 people since last year. The iom says tackling trafficking rings is a pressing task. The difficulty in the past is we have only caught those small smugglers who are running the boats but not the big fish who are behind the operation, and we need a breakthrough in that and to do that we need to organize ourselves to go after these gangs. Eu ministers agreed at an emergency meeting to step up measures against smugglers. The eu summit on thursday is also expected to discuss the issue. A court in egypt sentenced the countrys ousted president to 20 years in prison. Mohamed morsi was found guilty of ordering the killings of antigovernment demonstrators. International human Rights Groups are expected to criticize the decision. Morsi and 14 other defendants stood in a steel cage at the cairo criminal court. The men are members of the Muslim Brotherhood group.
People have been detained on suspicion of human trafficking. They say theyre part of a smuggling ring from africa. The group is suspected of smuggling more than 5,000 people since last year. The iom says tackling trafficking rings is a pressing task. The difficulty in the past is we have only caught those small smugglers who are running the boats but not the big fish who are behind the operation, and we need a breakthrough in that and to do that we need to organize ourselves to go after these gangs. Eu ministers agreed at an emergency meeting to step up measures against smugglers. The eu summit on thursday is also expected to discuss the issue. A court in egypt sentenced the countrys ousted president to 20 years in prison. Mohamed morsi was found guilty of ordering the killings of antigovernment demonstrators. International human Rights Groups are expected to criticize the decision. Morsi and 14 other defendants stood in a steel cage at the cairo criminal court. The men are members of
Relations for more than a year because of a territorial dispute. But now they are reaching out to each other and trying to heal their relationship through cultural exchanges. Japanese culture minister sat down with his chinese counterpart cai wu. They held the first ministeria talks between their countries s. Abe became Prime Minister last december. They described the negotiations as having stalled and being in need of improvement. Leaders in tokyo and beijing are at loggerheads over the Senkaku Islands in the east china sea. Japan corols the islands. China claims them. Analysts are waiting to see whether the ministerial talks will lead to better relations. Officials from Tokyo Electric Power company want to restart two nuclear reactors, the same kind that experienced meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. The reactors are part of the kashiwazakikariwa Nuclear Power plant in Niigata Prefecture, central japan. Tepco officials submitted an application for a safety screening to the Nuc