Mentoring students after 22 years away. The United States and the philippines have reached an agreement on boosting military cooperation with a focus on maritime security. The pact will see a strengthening in u. S. Military pressness in the philippines and will be in effect for ten years. U. S. Ambassador to the philippines philip goldberg, and Philippine Defense secretary Voltaire Gazmin signed the pact at the defense ministry. The ceremony took place during a visit to the Pacific Island nation by u. S. President barack obama. Under the agreement, the u. S. Military will regularly send troops to the philippines. The two sides also agreed to build or improve military facilities and infrastructure for joint use. The two countries say the number of u. S. Troops to be deployed and specific plans to build new facilities will be decided in further consultations. Sources say the u. S. Military could gain access do sites in the subic bay area on luzon island, and facilities on palaun island. Both locations face the South China Sea where chinas increasing its maritime activities. The philippines once served as a Major Military outpost for the United States. But american troops withdrew from the country more than 20 years ago. And the defense ministers of japan and australia have agreed to speed up talks to bolster bilateral security. It follows japans new principles on the transfer of defense equipment to ease its arms export ban. Japanese defense minister Itsunori Onodera and his australian counterpart David Johnson met in perth. Translator i want us to have an exchange of views so that we can strengthen ties between japan and australia. Johnson said australia wants to work with japan to develop defense equipment for regional stability. He has shown a strong interest in japans submarine technology. The ministers say they will improve joint drills by japans selfdefense forces and the australian military. They also confirmed the importance of trilateral exercises involving the u. S. They both agreed they cannot accept any attempt to change the status quo by force, as china increases its maritime activities. South Korean Coast Guard officials have released a new video of the sinking of the ferry sewol. It was shot by one of the first rescuers to arrive at the scene on april 16th. Authorities have confirmed 188 people died. 114 others are still listed as missing. A coast guard member shot the video on a cell phone. The official was on one of the first Patrol Vessels to reach the ferry. The first segment starts at around 9 30 a. M. It shows the ferry tilting at an almost 45 degree angle. The captain appears about 15 minutes later. The video shows him escaping from the ship with the help of rescuers. The video also shows coast guard personnel helping passengers and bringing them to safety. Some survivors say the crew told passengers to stay where they were inside the ferry. Investigators have arrested 15 crew members, including the captain. U. S. And european leaders are expected to widen their sanctions against russian officials over the crisis in ukraine. They say president Vladimir Putins administration is working to make things worse, not better. Prorussian separatists are occupy being government buildings in a bid for more regional autonomy. And now theyre using european monitors sent in to help defuse the situation as bargaining chips. More from nhk worlds craig dale. Reporter one by one they arrived to speak as gunmen stood by. These monitors with the organization for security and cooperation in europe have been held hostage since friday. I can only say please help us. Reporter prorussian separatists in Eastern Ukraine accuse them of being spies for the nato military alliance. The monitors say they havent been hurt, but we have no indication when we will be sent home to our countries. Reporter the separatists released one in the group for health reasons. They say they could free the rest in exchange for prorussian activists who are in custody. The osce monitors have been trying to help implement a multinational agreement aimed at ending this weekslong crisis. Armed groups have been occupying government buildings and police stations across the east. Theyre calling for greater autonomy. This separatist leader in the region of donetsk promised who hold a referendum on independence in midmay. Leaders of ukraines interim government, and those in the west, blame russia for fuelling this turmoil with agents and weapons. We urge russia to leave us alone. Reporter they accuse president Vladimir Putin of failing to live up to the agreement by helping disarm the separatists, and end the occupations. They say hes plotting to grab more territory as he did when he annexed the ukrainian republic of crimea. So long as russia continues down the path of provocation, rather than trying to resolve this issue, deesalating there are going to be consequences. Reporter those consequences amount to sanctions on russian officials such as travel bans and asset freezes. The net may widen as early as monday. The more names we add to that list, the more they do back in the russian economy. But we are also working on more farreaching measures of economic, trade, and financial sanctions. Reporter officials in moscow have denied theyre behind the unrest. Theyve told ukraine to pull back its troops from the east. Russian media report more than 10,000 soldiers are preparing to move in on separatists in the city of slavyansk. Across the border thousands of Russian Troops have been holding drills. President putin has said he reserves the right to protect ethnic russians in ukraine. Elsewhere in the region hundreds of u. S. Soldiers have arrived to boost the nato presence. Western leaders say they dont intend to let this situation turn into a conflict. But appearances are deceiving. Craig dale, nhk world. And concerns are growing within japan about the countrys massive debt load. Ron madison joins me with the latest on that. Ron . Shery, as you know, japans debttogdp ratio is famously very high. Now a finance Ministry Panel is warning that japans already Huge National debt could grow more than sixfold by the year 2060. An Advisory Panel to the finance minister wants a radical program of spending cuts and tax rises. The Fiscal System Council report released is the firstever longterm projection of fiscal conditions through 2060. Japans debt load is already among the heaviest in the industrialized world. The government has set a goal of financing its policy expenditures without issues new debt by fiscal 2020. But the panel warns that even if that target of primary balance surplus is met, social welfare costs will continue to surge, as the population ages. It says outstanding debt by central and local governments could balloon to about 80 trillion by fiscal 2060. That would put japans ratio of debttogdp at nearly 400 . The Panel Proposes designating the six years from fiscal 2021 as a period for intense fiscal restructuring. It says holding debt levels to around twice japans gdp would mean slashing red ink by about 300 billion during the period. To balance debt and gdp, it says about 450 billion must be slashed. Consumers across japan are set to pay even more for the things that they need. Policymakers at the bank of japan will gather again on wednesday. Theyre expected to say that in the next couple of years, inflation will reach their target of around 2 . Consumers started paying more in consumption tax at the beginning of the month. It went up from 5 to 8 , and many cut back on spending but the policymakers are expected to say the economy is still making a moderate recovery. Theyre expected to suggest that employment and wages will continue to improve and that managers are investing more in their businesses. Board members are on track to keep their outlook for iron nation for 2015 at 1. 9 . That does not include the effects of the tax hike. A year ago policymakers started pumping billions of dollars into the economy. They promised inflation would hit 2 within about two years. Now theyre expected to say theyll hit that target in 2016. They say theyre prepared to do more to ease credit, should conditions change drastically. People who buy Life Insurance in japan contribute to a pool that adds up to billions of dollars. Portfolio managers usually put a lot of that money into japanese government bonds but now theyre looking overseas to try to get some higher returns. Seven out of the nine leading insurers say monetary easing in japan has hurt yields. So they plan to increase their holdings of u. S. And european government bands. Managers say over the next year theyll invest nearly 3 billion in foreign bonds. Thats about 40 of the assets that they yank. People at sumitomo life will invest more than 1 billion. Managers at mitsui life about 500 million. Now Portfolio Managers traditionally shy away from foreign debt. They worry that theyll lose money because of currency fluctuations. All right lets check on the markets now. Investors in asia reduced their Stock Holdings ahead of a series of key economic events due out later this week. Theyre keeping a close eye on policy meetings by the federal reserve, and the bank of japan. Also, the latest u. S. Jobs report and manufacturing data out of china are a big focus. You can see most asian markets under pressure. The nikkei, in fact, down 1 , finished at 14,288. Thats a twoweek closing low there. Lackluster earnings from Japanese Companies weighed on market sentiment. Trading volume remained pretty light ahead of a Public Holiday on tuesday. The shanghai kols it also with declines of 1. 6 , 2,003. Thats a level that we havent seen for that market since late march. Investors remain worried about an oversupply of shares due to the expected resumption of initial public offerings. Meanwhile, Taiwans Taiex with a gain added 0. 4 , 8,809, thats a rebound from its lowest point in almost a month on friday. Investors bought high tsh deck shares on improving on the back of improving earnings outlooks. Japanese government officials trying now no encourage executives to do more to leverage the skills of women. Theyre considering requiring Large Companies to disclose the ratio of women on their boards of directors. Government leaders hope that by the year 2020, 30 of managers will be women. Prime minister shinzo abe says it is key to the future of the country. Right now only 1 of Board Members at publicly traded firms in japan are women. Compare that with 16 in the u. S. , 28 in france. Government leaders Hope Publishing the ratio of women on boards in Financial Reports will make it easier to judge how companies are doing. Japanese carmakers are unveiling a string of new models this year. Theyre pulling out all the stops now to avoid a major sales dip following the consumption tax hike on april 1st. Some automakers have seen new car sales plummet by up to 30 this month. Thats apparently a backlash from the lastminute surge in prehike purchases. Die at u plans to launch six new vehicles. One will be a convertible set to hit show rooms in june. Hon do has six new models lined up. Neither manufacturer has ever unveiled this many new designs in a year. Toyota has already started selling two new models this month. Automakers say sales will likely remain sluggish in the coming months. Analysts are watching to see if the allure of new models will boost demand. That is going to do it for biz this hour. Heres a check of the markets. Taiwanese police have evicted antinuclear protesters staging a sitin on a road in central taipei. 37 people were injured in the incident. More than 3,000 protesters gathered on sunday evening and continued through the night. A Citizens Group organized a demonstration to call on the government to halt the construction of a Nuclear Power plant near taipei. Police began using Water Cannons to disburse the group before dawn on monday. They feared the sitin would disrupt morning traffic. Some of the protesters clashed with authorities during the eviction. More than 90 of the work on taiwans Fourth Nuclear plant is complete. But construction was suspended last year due to public concerns over safety. Many residents started to worry about Atomic Energy after the accident three years ago at japans Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility. The president announced on sunday that his government would freeze construction on the plant. He plans to hold a referen couple to ask voters whether or not Building Work should go ahead. But analysts say it may be difficult to hold a referendum before the president ial elections scheduled for 2016. Japanese regulators are concerned about a series of security violations at nuclear plants. Theyre worried the facilities might be vulnerable to attack. So theyre urging plant operators to do more to guard against the threat of terrorism. Translator complying with laws and regulations is not enough to counter nuclear terrorism. Power companies should also maintain discipline and a proper organizational culture. Officials of the Nuclear Regulation Authority Held a meeting with senior managers of the utilities. They stressed the importance of stepping up antiterrorism measures. The regulators are also looking to strengthen their own safeguards. Theyll ask infectors from the international Atomic Energy to make sure theyre taking adequate measures. Theyll also consider a mechanism for background checks on workers at nuclear facilities. One of the security violations took place at the tokai number 2 power plant in central japan. Security monitors have been switched off. And officials at another facility failed to make copies of visitors i. D. Documents. A japanese teacher sidelined by blindness is back on the job after 22 years away. His motivating hes students by proving that being visually impaired is not a barrier. Reporter 52yearold Yoshinori Arai teaches students in the first year of junior high school. Its the first day of the new semester. Translator this is my special skill. Reporter the teacher shows that his sight impairment isnt the obstacle the students might imagine. By introducing himself this way, he relaxes the children. Translator im the only vision impaired home room teacher in all of japan. Reporter arai contracted a progressive eye disease at the age of 28. By the time he was 34, he had lost his eyesight completely, and was forced to quit teaching. He mastered braille, the writing system for the sight impaired, and was able to return to the classroom as a japanese language teacher. Arai devised his own special teaching aids, like magnetic strips to help him write in a straight vertical lines. During that time, his main goal had been to return to school as a home room teacher. Translator in our life we grow the most during the three years of junior high. I witnessed the students growth, and it helped me grow, too. Reporter 39 students are in his class. Arai is working hard to quickly memorize each students name and voice. Translator in my situation, memorizing everybodys name and, yes, voice is the key. Reporter the teacher records the students introducing themselves. Translator im the only one who likes reporter he replays the recording over and over to memorize names and voices. Translator if i cant recognize who they are, the students will not communicate with me. Reporter his blindness motivates a desire to form closer ties with his students. Arai eats lunch with the children. Translator hes a good eater . Yes, sort of. Reporter arai believes that being among his students like this helps them grow. Translator most of the home room teachers each their lunch at their desk. In order to look over the whole classroom. I cant do that, because i cant see. So i Pay Attention to individual students. Translator he cant see but its like he can. Hes easy to talk to. Reporter with the help of an assistant teacher, arai sends messages of encouragement to his students in their home room note books. Translator i think the students can learn a lot about life by knowing what arai has been through. Reporter 22 years after losing his eyesight, arai is back as a home room teacher. And looking to the future, alongside his students. Thousands of people have celebrated the opening of this years tourist season at the gateway to japans northern alps. Some 3,000 people were at the Opening Event to wish for the safe arrival of as many visitors as possible. Shinto priests offered a ritual prayer. It sits on a plateau about 1500 meters above sea level and attracts around 1. 5 million visitors annually. This years first tourists caught a glimpse of snow on the mountain range. Others got creative on the river bank, capturing the scene in their own unique way. Translator its so beautiful, and the air is so clean here. Translator theres not much snow left. So im looking forward to some mountaineering. A local Community Leader says he hopes plenty of tourists will visit the area to see where the beautiful alpine environment. And Severe Weather in the southern United States has spanned numerous tornadoes and resulted in several deaths. Our meteorologist jonathan oh joins us now. Jonathan, how do conditions look now . Shery, unfortunately it looks like were going to have to continue to monitor this weather situation, because the low pressure system that has really the instigator of the Severe Weather, is not moving very quickly. You can see the spin located toward the dakotas. And you can see the line of white clouds over into arkansas and into missouri. And it looks like the story of Severe Weather will continue as we go through the next couple of days. I have some video coming out of that area, and so far at least 12 people have been killed because of these tornadoes. This is from baxter springs, kansas, where a tornado roared through the area, and left 25 people injured, and the governor of kansas has declared a state of emergency because of that. Heres another piece of video. This ones coming out of the northeastern corner of oklahoma. And at least one person was killed here when the tornado roared through the area during the overnight hours, and it looks like more bad weather is expected further toward the east as we go through the next day. Let me show you the reason why. What we have here on the map is an upper level low pressure system that is dragging cold air from the north, and causing this huge trough. Meanwhile we have warm air coming in from the south. That collision is the focal point of these numerous tornadoes, also strong, damaging winds, and large hail, and large hail were talking about baseballsized hail from sunday. And that is likely to continue into monday. So, as we take a look at this particular map showing us the risk areas. The orange highlighted areas is the moderate risk. But those of you in the yellow sheds from iowa down to georgia and South Carolina you also need to keep an eye out for this because on sunday with the slight risk areas being back to the west those areas also saw some tornadoes being spawned with this particular system. And this is a very extensive system. The low pressure also dragging in the cold air, bringing heavy snow for the dakotas. And gusty winds down toward the western portions of texas with critical fire weather. You can see the precipitation pushing toward the east. It looks like that more rainstorms are expected for the eastern seaboard into tuesday, as this system is a very slow mover. Were talking about highs of 27 in atlanta with thunderstorms, houston at 31. But the ridge back to the west bringing us sunny conditions and warm temperatures with a high of 26 degrees. Taking a look down toward the pacific tropics, here is the side of saipam and into guam. This is Tropical Storm tapa moving toward the northeast right now but eventually moving toward the north and west and thats going to bring a lot of precipitation for those of you in guam and saipan. Up to 200 millimeters of rain in the next 72 hours. Taking a look at the asian forecast, High Pressure controlling the northern portions of china. Thats going to create a little bit of a problem when it comes to air pollution eventually spreading toward the east into the Korean Peninsula over the next couple of days. We have some rain also moving into western japan. Thats going to bring some more wet weather for tuesday, which is a holiday here in tokyo, and into japan. And so, unfortunately its going to dampen some outdoor plans. Nagano, youll be seeing a high of 21. Tokyo high of 20 with some rain expected. As we take a look at europe we do have some rain down toward the mediterranean coastline. Heavy rain warnings for italy and also into southern balkan peninsula. Were taking a look at temperatures here. 20 in vienna, 15 in rome. A high of 22 degrees in athens and looks like rain will eventually move into your area throughout the day. Madrid you will see fair conditions. A high of 21 degrees. Hope you have a good day wherever you are. Heres a look at your extended forecast. Heres our top story once again. The United States, and the philippines, have reached an agreement on boosting military cooperation with a focus on maritime security. The pact will see a strengthened u. S. Military presence in the philippines, and will be in effect for ten years. U. S. Ambassador to the philippines, philip goldberg, and Philippine Defense secretary Voltaire Gazmin signed the pact at the defense ministry. The ceremony took place during a visit to the Pacific Island nation by u. S. President barack obama. Under the agreement, the u. S. Military will regularly send troops to the philippines. The two sides also agreed to build or improve military facilities and infrastructure for joint use. The two countries say the number of u. S. Troops to be deployed and specific plans to build new facilities will be decided in further consultations. Sources say the u. S. Military could gain access to sites in the subic bay area on luzon island, and facilities on palawan island. Both locations face the South China Sea where chinas increasing its maritime activities. The philippines once served as a Major Military outpost for the United States. But american troops withdrew from the country more than 20 years ago. And thats all for this hour on newsline. Im shery ahn. Thank you for watching. . cucuc hello. You are watching france 24. These are the headlines. Close to 700 people get a recommended death sentence in egypt over support of ousted president mohamed morsi. The Muslim Brotherhood leader is among those sentenced. The u. S. 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