Obama made the announcement in hannover, germany. He urged european states to step up the fight against isil. The bid for japan to win a contract with australia for a submarine fleet has failed. They are planning for 12 new subs to go into service after the year 2030. The contract is worth at least 38 billion. Sources close to the matter say australian ministers told their Japanese Counterparts that japan was not chosen by phone on monday. Japanese officials pitched the deal as a potential step towards strengthening cooperation with australia as china increases maritime activities in the south china sea. Japanese officials meanwhile are waiting for an official announcement from the australian government. Theyre expected to examine the reasons for not being selected and explore other possibilities of joint Defense Development with australia. Rescue crews in southwestern japan have discovered another victim. After the series of earthquakes that has been rocking the region for over a week. Police have confirmed that it is one of the two missing people theyve been searching for. The body was found at a site of a massive landslide in kumamoto prefecture. Authorities say 49 people died in the quakes. They say 13 others died later, possibly due to the physical burden of evacuating or the worsening condition of diseases they already had. More than 48,000 people are living in shelters or vehicles and not being able to move around much in their cars is taking a toll. Officials say 35 people have been diagnosed with socalled Economy Class syndrome and need to be admitted to hospital. The syndrome causes blood clots to form and could lead to death. Recovery work is ongoing, and on monday, the Central Government took a step forward to help rebuild the region. Translator we have designated the damage caused by the earthquakes in kumamoto as an extremely severe disaster. We have also decided on special measures to be applied to the affected region. The designation allows tokyo to provide bigger subsidies to municipalities in the disasterhit areas. One Elementary School in kumamoto city resumed classes after an interval of ten days. Translator im looking forward to seeing my classmates. Translator i want to play in the yard with my friends. School Officials Say they also plan to provide counseling for the children. Now japanese Prime Minister shinzo abe pledged to rebuild the quakeihit areas. Lets go to ai uchida for more on this. What is he proposing . Hes turning to the private sector. Hes urging Business Leaders to help rebuild the kumamoto area. He said every day operations are starting to improve, but a decline in foreign and domestic tourists may have a prolonged impact on the local economy. Ache said his government will draft an extra budge to t to actively assist quake victims in affected areas. Translator the government will do everything to minimize the quakes impact on the local economy, supply chain and tourism. Id like to request the business communitys help. Council members also discussed how to boost the gdp to 5. 4 trillion. They decided to boost investment in artificial Intelligent Research to more than 4 of gdp by fiscal 2020. Saudi arabia has announced a plan to lower its reliance on oil profits by the year 2030 at countrys economy has been hit hard by Lower Crude Oil prices. The saudi cabinet has approved a broadbased economic reform known as, broadbased economic form plan, and its known as vision 2030. State immediate what reported that the plan includes raising funds through the sale of less than 5 of stateoil giant. It was compiled by the deputy crown prince salman. Its planning to raise it to 2 trillion. That money will be spent on expanding investment overseas and raising revenue. The shares will go public at stock exchanges around the globe, but the date of the ipo has not been clearly stated. The plan also aims to increase jobs to lower the Unemployment Rate from the current 11. 6 to 7 . The deputy crown prince said saudi arabia will become an economy supported not by crude Oil Production but by investment in the future. And were going to check on markets. U. S. Stock prices ended with modest declines on monday, a dip in oil prices and lackluster earnings dampened sentiment. The dow jones falling. 15 . We are going to see how stocks are opening here this tuesday morning. Were going to go to Ramin Mellegard for that. Investors a little hesitant ahead of key events this week. Good morning to you. Markets a little bit nervous. Of course u. S. Earnings havent been exactly stellar. Crude has dipped as well. And we have the Federal Reserve policy meeting as well as the bank of japan policy meeting this week, a lot for investors to take in. And theyre taking a little bit of a step back. Having a look at how the nikkeis opening this morning, both indeces, the nikkei and the broader topix trading lower, were. 3 . The nikkei moved step for step with other index, ending with the key focus being the bank of japan meeting which ends on thursday. Investors looking for any moves the boj may take to either expand the asset buying program or cut Interest Rates further into the negative. In fact, currency traders have already reacted sharply to a media report last year about the boj that it could help banks by offering negative rate loans, and that itself caused one of the biggest oneday dips for the yen since october 31st, 2014. So weve already seen some volatility in the currency markets. Apart from the fed and boj meetings, we also have some key data that could swing the dollar yen pair. The key data out of the use will be very important due out on thursday. The dollar slipped a little. Look at it now, 111 flat. Now First Quarter gdp on thursday will be a key guide for the u. S. And for investors. For all intents and purposes, theres no expectation of a rate hike by the fed at a meeting this week. In fact, the gdp data may have more of a bearing on what the fed may do at its june meeting. Mitsubishi motors will be announcing earnings on wednesday, and thats following the fuel efficiency scandal that broke last week. And weve seen the market value of Mitsubishi Motor plummet since that point in time. But that will be a big focus. Sony also due out on friday, and of course its already said that its going to delay its profit outlook until may, and thats really because its still assessing the effects from the earthquakes in southwestern japan. A quick look at other asian indeces which are up and run being right now. And im talking about the kospi and australias s p asx. Australia is up just a tenth of a percent. China opens in an hour and a half. Very interesting to see what happens with the shanghai composite and the hangseng. Thats it for me. Ramin mellegard from the tokyo stock exchange. Women in japan face formidable barriers in the workplace. More than 60 quit their jobs after giving birth. And the percentage of female managers in japan is much lower than in other nations. Now Business Leaders are beginning to realize something needs to change. This month, a law took effect with the goal of increasing the employment of women. In this threepart series we look at ways women build their careers and how some companies are changing to help them. Today nhk focuses on the difficulties for women who want to work. Reporter more than 1700 women came to an event in tokyo, hoping to find companies that would offer them a career, not just a job. The event was exclusively for women. Translator i want to work at a company that supports women, even when they get married or have children. Reporter a manager at the company that put the on the fair says it gets a big response each time. Hes always surprised by how many women are not satisfied with their careers. Many actually give up on a career once they have a child. This woman refined from a finance institution five years ago before her child was born. Translator i was afraid of losing my credibility at work if i took a day off to see a doctor or when i didnt feel well. People were nice, but i didnt want to cause trouble. Reporter before she quit, she was thinking it wouldnt be hard to leave her son at a nursery while she worked somewhere, but the wait for public day care was long and the cost of a private facility too high. Her husband has avoided taking paternity leave because no man at his company has ever done so. Translator i realized how much i wanted to work after quitting my job. I really hoped to be employed and improve my skills and career, but i am my boys mother, and he needs me. I even feel guilty about wishing to develop my career. Reporter at this major manufacturer in tokyo, managers are taking steps to attract more women and toward senior roles. This woman is drawing up a plan for increasing the number of women managers and workers. Shes developing plans for fellow workers raising children. She conducted a survey to find out what employee the think about their careers. The answers alarmed her. She was concerned by the number of women who dont want to become managers. They say they have no role models and feel their bosses dont expect them to move up the ladder. Translator male bosses may seem to be getting along with female workers, but in reality, they may not really be depending on women workers or training them to become managers. Reporter she has set a goal of 10 women managers by 2020. She briefed the survey and her plan. One man talked about the difficulty of giving assignments to women who take maternity leave. Translator they work for while, take a leave, work for while and take another leave. Its really hard to assign jobs to them. Translator its important to many believe in supporting womens Career Development no matter what. Theres nothing wrong what taking a long leave. We have to insist that working mothers also assist with work responsibilities and make achievements. Reporter she is running training sessions to helpen mana managers see things differently. One executive says he hopes they move beyond the norm. Translator our business is changing, so should our way of managing. We need to diversify our workforce. If we can let women workers fully exercise their capabilities, that will add great power to the entire operation. Reporter the government estimates 3 million women in japan westeish to work but don. That leaves a lot of room for progress. Nhk world. And for the second installment of our series, well look at one of japans biggest beverage makers is doing to foster female talent. A quick correction before i go, sony earnings is due out thursday, not friday. Ill be back next hour with more on your headlines. Heres a check on your markets. The 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games finally have log logos. The original designs were scrapped amid allegations of plagiarism. Translator these indigo and white checkers will soon be printed on jerseys, souvenirs and signs for the 2020 games. They reference a traditional japanese pattern. Varying in size, they represent different countries, cultures and ways of thinking. And they carry a message of unity in diversity. Translator it took a long time to draw this design. I feel like its my child. I hope the emblems will be used in many ways and be known to many people. Translator i like it. It has a sense of japan. Translator i think its okay. Its unique. Reporter in july, the original design by this art director was unveiled. But a belgian Graphic Designer called on the International Olympic committee to prevent the logos use. He said it closely resembled one he created for theater in belgium. He denied the accusation, but further accusations against his company emerged. In september, the organizers of the tokyo games withdrew the logo. They faced criticism over lack of transparency in the selection process. So they formed a 21member panel made up of experts. Entries increased sharply. There were 14,000, more than 100 times above the previous number. The screening process was made partially visible online. After considering thousands of comments, the panel selected the logo by a majority vote. Translator it feels like weve come a long way to find the most precious one. Reporter the new logo went through a long bundle of checks to ensure their originality. And its hoped they will be widely accepted as the new symbol of the 2020 olympic games. Japan, china and south korea are coming together for an annual meeting on air pollution and global warming. The meeting will start tuesday in the japanese city of sheof shizuoka. At the top of the agenda for the twoday meeting is chinas severe air pollution problem. The ministers will discuss establishing a network that would enable china to utilize technologies from japan and south korea to tackle air pollution. Nepal is marking a year since the deadly 7. 8 magnitude earthquake that shattered lives across the poor himalayan nation. Almost 9,000 people were killed, and more than 900,000 houses damaged or destroyed. Government officials held a Memorial Service in the capital kathmandu ahead of mondays anniversary. Nepalese Prime Minister paid tribute at a site where a Historic Building collapsed, killing dozens of people. Translator theres nothing we can do about what happened. I just prayed for the victims. People lit candles and offered prayers for those lost in the disaster. Translator a year has gone so quickly. It feels like just yesterday. Its frightening. As earthquakes are still happening. I prayed for them to stop. The nepalese government and officials of the Japan InternationalCooperation Agency or jica held a special seminar on monday. International society and aid groups are stressing the importance of speeding up rebuilding efforts. Now people across nepal are still struggling to get back on their feet. In the countrys remote regions, daily life since the earthquake is especially hard. Nhk visited the worsehit area in the himalayan foothills. Reporter this district lies about a threehour drive from the capital. More than 3,500 people died here in the earthquakes. Survivors live in makeshift homes, doing their best just to get by. These tin sheets are close to useless against the cold of the winter or the heat of the summer. The government has so far failed to provide people with the 1900 it has pledged for a rebuilding scheme. Translator the government says it will send the money. But that hasnt happened yet. Translator a year has passed since the earthquake. But my house has not been rebuilt yet. The government said it will help us, but it hasnt done a thing. Our lives havent changed at all over the year. Reporter and there are other challenges making life extremely difficult. This is a farmer. His family lived on the rice and vegetables they grew. But they had to give up farming as their water stopped running after the earthquake. They think the pipes from the source were damaged. Translator before the quake, water came out from here and flowed down that way. Reporter now his wife and daughter have to fetch water from a distant well. Each trip takes an hour, meaning they spend almost their entire day going back and forth for water. Translator its hard. But we have to do it to survive. Reporter he says hes in debt for the first time in his life. As he needs to buy food now. He has three children and often wonders if the problems will ever end. Translator we wont be able to live here if i cant go back to farming. Its so hard just getting water. Its difficult to raise my children without the farm. Reporter a japanese Nonprofit Group providing support for nepal is working to help solve the water problem. Staff and local people assess the situation together. Translator the water here has dried up too. Reporter the group aims to offer financial and Technical Support to repair infrastructure. Translator when people lose access to water, they are forced to selloff their livestock or give up farming. This means their life before the disaster is destroyed. We need to start restoring infrastructure as soon as possible. Reporter but the organization cannot start work yet. As the nepalese government has been slow issuing the necessary approval. People have began to criticize the government, saying its lack of urgency is holding back reconstruction efforts. Kay eachy tanaka, nhk world. It is time now for a check of the weather. People in tokyo are experiencing a warm tuesday morning. Robert speta tells us how long that will last and more in world weather. Yes, actually temperatures are up into the may to junelike temperatures across parts of central japan. Today sunny skies really dominating, although that is going to be coming at a price over the next 48 hours, because another reason why we are looking at warmer than usual temperatures because of all this cloud cover back here towards the west, that is contributing to winds coming out from the southwest, and that means temperatures will be on the rise. But fortunately, once that moves farther to the east, it will be bringing precipitation with it. Already bringing widespread rainfall across regions of china, and i do want to show you video coming out of this area just to show you what has already been happing. Gnificant flooding, even washing out a bridge over the past weekend. About 200 millimeters of rain fell, forcing authorities to issue red alert warnings, you can see the flooded streets across much of the area, also some of the stronger storms ripped off the roofs of some buildings. So a potent, slowmoving storm system. As this develops, its going to be pulling off toward the east, bringing showers across much of kyushu, some areas of south korea, but i do want to zoom into kyushu, because thats where were looking at Recovery Efforts still from last weeks large earthquake, and a lot of people are still outside in temporary shelters and definitely any more rainfall is not going to be welcome, even spreading that increase in landslides. And over toward tokyo, youre going to be looking at cooler temperatures, just because the sky will be blocked out by the cloud cover. At least for no