8 55 utc. The epicenter was at a depth of 40 kilometers. The center is recommending people in the area to remain observant and exercise normal caution near the sea and no action is required. Japans Prime MinisterSuga Yoshihide will leave vietnam for indonesia for talks with president joko widodo on tuesday. Translator i want the two countries to work closely on various issues including the coronavirus and the economy. I want the summit to establish such a relationship. In the meeting suga is expected to emphasize that as a key member of asean indonesia is a Strategic Partner and the two countries share basic values like freedom and democracy. Suga hopes the nations will agree to Work Together over a range of regional issues including chinas growing maritime presence. He wants to arrange a meeting of their foreign and defense ministers soon. Suga also plans to accelerate negotiations on the transfer of defense equipment. Indonesia has the highest total number of coronavirus cases in southeast asia. Suga will likely convey japans readiness to offer yen loans to help indonesia financially. He would also like to set up with indonesias joko a plan to lift japans entry restrictions for nurses and caregivers from indonesia. For more on sugas visit to indonesia we spoke to a former senior official from that country. He says relations between the two leaders are off to a good start. Translator theyve already spoken by phone, which helped show that the japanese government is still paying close attention to indonesia. The former Deputy Foreign minister says he thinks bilateral ties will continue improving if suga keeps the previous abe administrations foreign policies in place. When it comes to the regional picture, suga has described the association of Southeast Asian nations as the key to promoting a free and open indopacific. Suga believes indonesia has a similar stance on the issue. But dino says that engaging with China Remains crucial to ensuring peace. Translator im of the opinion that the indopacific approach will be of limited relevance if china does not take part. Because china is the largest economy in the region and is making many Strategic Moves in the indopacific. If china does not participate, the concept will not be effective. He also expressed concern over recent remarks by the u. S. Secretary of state. Earlier this month mike pompeo criticized beijing at a meeting of Foreign Ministers from the socalled quad countries of japan, australia, the u. S. And india. That meeting also focused on promoting peace and stability in the indiopacific. Translator i am very concerned about this because it will make people think the quad is antihina. Since they are leading the indopacific approach, if it s seen as antichinese it will lose a lot of credibility. And Cooperation Among the countries is taking shape. Australia has announced it will participate in a joint naval exercise with japan, the United States and india. Australias foreign minister marise payne and defense minister Linda Reynolds issued a statement on monday saying their country will join this years malabar exercise at indias invitation. Payne said the exercise will bolster the ability of the nations to Work Together to uphold peace and stability across the region. The drills have been conducted every year by the u. S. And indian navies and japans maritime selfdefense force. This years exercise is planned for november in waters near india. The u. S. Justice Department Says six russian Intelligence Officers have been charged for orchestrating a series of global Cyber Attacks targeting Government Entities and oth organizations between 2015 and 2019. We announced criminal charges against a conspiracy of Russian MilitaryIntelligence Officers who stand accused of conductg the most disruptive and destructive series of computer attacks ever attributed to a single group. The six members face a series of charges including conspiracy to conduct Computer Fraud and abuse, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. Officials say the attacks caused more than 10 billion in losses. According to the indictment, the accused hacked into the 2018 Winter Olympics in south korea and deleted data from thousands of computers related to the event. It says the hackers also disrupted ukraines power sply in the middle of winter and harmed the operations of a Health Care System in the u. S. State of pennsylvania. Officials also accuse the russian members of disrupting the 2017 election in france through hacks that targeted Political Party officials. British government officials who participated in the investigation said the attacks also targeted organizations involved in the 2020 olympic and Paralympic Games before they were postponed. The tokyo games were originally scheduled to be held this summer but were pushed back until next year due to the coronavirus pandemic. Justice Department Officials say the timing of the indictment was unrelated to the upcoming u. S. President ial election but said voters should feel confident that their ballots will be counted properly. U. S. President Donald Trumps handling of the coronavirus pandemic is at the heart of the race for the white house. Now trump has lashed out at critics and the governments top Infectious Diseases expert dr. Anthony fauci. People are tired of hearing fauci and all these idiots these people. Fauci ace disaster. If i listened to him wed have 500,000 deaths. U. S. Media also quoted trump telling his Campaign Team that people are tired of hearing about covid19. Fauci is a key member of the u. S. Governments Coronavirus Task force and is generally admired by the public. He recently criticized the trump team for using his comments out of context in a campaign ad. With the election just two weeks away democratic challenger joe biden is expected to step up his attacks on trump over the coronavirus. Johns Hopkins University says around 70,000 new cases were reported on friday. Thats the same level recorded in the summer around the height of the pandemic. The number of coronavirus cases across the globe has topped 40 million. The highest amount of new daily infections ever was registered this month in some european nations and russia. The United States has the most cases, followed by india, brazil and russia. Covid19 has killed more than 1. 1 Million People around the world. In france a nighttime curfew started from last saturday in paris and several other city districts. The German Government has been mandated mask wearing in crowded places, depending on the latest covid19 situation in any given ar area. The number of new daily infections in the United States has been trending up again since mid september. It had been declining from its peak in july. Conversely, cases in india and brazil have been decreasing. Johns Hopkins University says the number of cases went from 30 million to 40 million in st 31 days. The pace has been speeding up since january. Japans financial regulators may carry out an onsite inspection at the tokyo stock exchange. This comes after trading was halted for an entire day earlier this month. The Financial Services agency is considering a probe after a report from the tsc. It explains how the stoppage happened and how the Exchange Plans to prevent it from happening again. The october 1st outage was blamed on a hardware glitch and a backup system failure. The authorities are taking the matter seriously. It was the first full day stoppage since the trading system was fully computerized in 1999. Penalties such as Business Improvement order are being considered. On a related note a Technical Glitch temporarily halted trading on some european stock markets on monday morning. Exchange operator euronext says the problem with the trading system froze all its transactions in paris, brussels, lisbon, and amsterdam. Euronext says it has identified the cause and made fixes. It says trading has resumed. Reuters News Agency Says the markets were down for more than three hours. The outage also reportedly affected derivatives and other financial products. London, frankfurt, and several other markets were unaffected. Now for World Weather lets check in with our meteorologist yoko komagata. Hello, yoko. People in central india have been experiencing major floods. Where are we seeing the biggest risks . In the central and southern portions of india until the end of october. Avy rain will continue to increase in these areas for the next couple of days. Additional flooding could lead to more flooding. Meanwhile the northern portions of the country have no clouds on this satellite image. The rainy season is over and the dry season has started. Dry and calm conditions have created unhealthy air pollution. Videos show city buildings and traffic covered with heavy smog on monday. Air pollution levels increased in october after a few months of slightly clean air durng the coronavirus lockdown. Authorities say this problem is caused by farmers burning some crops in nearby states. The situation will not change anytime soon. Persistent dry weather could even worsen the situation. Pollution remains at very high levels in new delhi throughout the week causing some health problems. Meanwhile the center half of the country will continue to seepi scattered showers and some severe thunderstorms on tuesday. Rainfall is also affecting southeast asia. We have a tropical depression east of the philippines that will move west toward luzon over the next couple of days. As the storm system moves over the south china sea, it will likely become the next Tropical Storm by thursday and affect the indochina peninsula over the weekend. The area had already had Copious Amounts of rainfall, especially in the Central Vietnam since last week. But more heavy rainfall is expected as the storm system approaches. Total rainfall could reach 250 millimeters. Heavy rain is expected in manila as we go into tuesday going into wednesday. Winds and rainfall will increase in da nang over the weekend. Thats all for now. Stay safe. Thats all for now. Thank you for staying with us on nhk newsline. Welcome to newsline in depth. Nearly five months have passed since the death of george floyd at the hands of u. S. Police. Even amid the pandemic there has been no letup in the calls for an end to racial or other forms of discrimination. At the u. S. Open tennis championship since september osaka naomi wore face masks representing victims of Racial Injustice. The protests have become a key issue in the upcoming u. S. President ial election. Today we meet americanactive opalla temeti. The cofounder of black lives matter and one of time magazines 100 most influential people of 2020. We spoke with her in august about activism in the age of covid19. We see that people are having to rise up now at this unique moment despite the fact that were in a global pandemic. I think thats whats alarming to so many people is that even in the midst of a time where you would think people are at home and can be at home and should be safe and fine and taking care of their loved ones at home its still the case that black people are being targeted and are being killed because the color of our skin is seen as though its a weapon in this country. Do you think covid19 exposed inequality and disparity that exists in society . I say this because the people of color are so disproportionately affected by the pandemic. Yeah, sadly people of color are largely impacted by this covid19 pandemic. Even though black people are only 13 of the population, we are probably 20 , 25 of those who are being impacted and dying from covid19. And so we see that low income communities, largely communities of color, are the ones who are the most vulnerable in the midst of this pandemic. Its in fact because theyre the ones who are the most essential workers in this society. Were the ones who are many times working at the Grocery Stores or who are in these essential worker jobs. And so the risk is increased for these communities. The risks are increased for black and brown communities. Opal tometi was born to nigerian parents who migrated to the u. S. She grew up among a very Diverse Community of immigrants and gradually became involved as an advocate for human rights, migrant rights and racial justice. No justice no peace reporter the birth of black lives matter originated in the highprofile incident that took place in 2012. The Fatal Shooting of 17yearold trayvon martin. While the black teenager was unarmed, the shooter claimed he w acquted of muder. Efense and ring led her t foundlack lives mater in013 with two other women, creating a social media platform where people can share their feelings about discrimination. Since then tometi has been encouraging people to protest every case of discrimination, turning black lives matter into a powerful slogan. Black lives matter in terms of how you operate youve said that we are just a hashtag. So youre not an organization. Perhaps youre a platform . So black lives matter is an organization as well as a platform. We are decentralized. There are chapters across the country using the black lives matter umbrella. I see. So as long as you put in a hashtag you can be part of that movement . The movement is larger than just black lives matter and the network and even a chapterbased organization. Now, i was surprised that the big yellow letters, bold letters, you know, black lives matter, in d. C. Or new york, that did not come about as a result of your approaching them to do so. Yeah. Whats been so inspiring is that people around the country are taking initiative and have really adopted the black lives matter message and ethos and theyre doing what they want to do with black lives matter as a message. So even seeing that black lives matter has been written on many streets from washington, d. C. To new york to l. A. To different parts of the country, we see that. But we havent initiated that. People took initiative on their very own. Feeling inspired by the movement. Feeling very invigorated by the thousands if not millions of people whove been in the streets. They were inspired by them and they decided to make their own types of actions. Last month more protests erupted across the u. S. Following the decision not to charge any Police Officers for the death of breonna taylor. She was shot dead in her apartment by police in a botched raid. Tometi explains why this kind of incident continues to take place. Weve seen these various ways in which lowincome people have een criminalized. So poverty is seen as a crime. And its made it very difficult for black communities, for communities of color around the country. So when we see these types of uprisings, its a resultof that disenfranchisement. But also in the fact the police are patrolling these communities. The police are in there day, in day out doing what we call a theory of broken windows policing where theyre able to come into communities because of lowlevel kind of infractions and lowlevel activities and they come in with their force and that is why we see the types of brutality and killing that were seeing right now. Youve spoken about defunding the police. And also investing in communities. Would you elaborate . Yeah. So the call to defund the police is a pretty important one thats emerged many years ago but its beginning to make a lot more sense to people right now. The fact is that as were in the midst of this pandemic we see that doctors and nurses barely have any equipment or the tools that they need to be safe in the hospitals but when you see people protesting and you see the police as they come to both monitor and stop protests you see that they have militaygrade police, you know, weaponry and militarygrade gear. The truth is that they have these budgets that are overbloated. The fact that you can see one sector of society be so woefully underfunded and one sector of society that is so or one career that is so well funded tells you something. And underdevelopment can be seen in terms of health, education, nutrition, whatever you name it. We would love to see those resources reallocated towards the other sectors of our society that could really use the resources. If somebodys having an issue maybe with their mental health, we would want a social worker there. If somebodys homeless, they actually need support getting back on their feet instead of being interacted with police. So what were saying is we need to have different types of solutions for issues that require intervention and require somebody to engage on issues of safety foour community. Thats what were calling for. We want investment inafety that looks more respectful of us. Police reform is another key issue in the upcoming election. We asked tometi how she sees the future of the blm movement in the u. S. , where the divisions in society have become wider over the past four years. Because of the current polarization that exists in the United States a group of people can start to feel rather insecure with the recent developments. Yeah, there is a great deal of polarization, but i think the important thing to remember here is that there are people who have been taught a lie their entire lives. And essentially what were trying to do with black lives matter as a movement and i think people whove taken it upon themselves either if its around the statues, around other kinds of activities that theyre engaged with and other kinds of forms of advocacy, i think what theyre trying to call for is a reimagination of what is going on and what the solutions are to the problems that weve seen in our society. So what can hold the United States together amidst this kind of polarization . I dont know about the, quote unquote, like unifying the country. I think people can coexist without being exactly on the same page. I think that ultimately its about respect. Its about dignity. And i believe that that can happen whether or not people have the exact same beliefs. And i think ultimately thats what weve been, you know, arguing for and what weve been advocating for. We want a future respect in this country. And respect isnt, you know, killing people or having people locked up or discriminating against them in the workplace. You know, respect is completely different. It is looking at somebody and treating them as if you were the one in their shoes. Yes. Yes. Thats what respect for diversity should really mean. Exactly. You know, we have a very diverse society, and so part of what we need in our community is to embrace that, to see the strength in our diversity. Thats what i see. I see that there are a lot of assets when you celebrate the diversity of your community. We dont need a monolithic society. We dont have a monolithic society, and thats fine. How do you see strategiwise, how will the movement evolve in the days and the years to come . I believe people are going to continue to engage in different cultural strategies. I think were going see a lot more tv shows, a lot more documentaries, a lot more designers who are embracing black art, black contribution and celebrating them. And i also think were going to begin to see a lot more changes with policy. You have said that theres much to be hoped for about. And you speak with a lovely smile. What has kept you going . You know, i actually am very hopeful. Ill be quite honest. Seeing, one, many more people in the streets has given me a lot of hope. I dont feel i have to do this work with only just a small group of people anymore. I see that we have a large team or several teams around the country and around the globe now. And so that gives me a lot of hope. And the other things that give me a lot o hope are when my friends send me these really cute videos of their children who are saying black lives matter in their little voices. Black lives matter black lives matter these are my friends who are white who are sending these videos of their white children who are getting to understand the value of their black young friends at such a young age and theyre celebrating and theyre learning that standing up for somebodys rights is something that should be normalized, everyday people should be engaged in this work too. As tometi says, putting an end to Racial Injustice is not about society being monolithic. Fundamentally, it is about diversity, having respect for human rights and dignity. We saw even small children raising ther voices on a very local scale. At a time when divisions have become so pronounced, it is very much worth keeping an eye out for grassroots movements. Thats it for todays news President Trump says the u. S. Will remove sudan from his list of spate state sponsors of victims and their families. Youre watching al jazeera. 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