Revised downward from 0. 3 to minus 0. 7 . The chinese economy continues to face weak demand at home and abroad. Exports fell in may. Thats two months in a row of year on year declines. Imports dropped for the 19th straight month. Chinas customs Authorities Say total trading value for may came to about 312 billion. Thats down 2. 6 from the same month last year. Exports totaled 181 billion down about 4 from a year earlier. Imports fell 0. 4 to 131 billion. The Chinese Government has been promoting Structural Reforms such as reducing the overproduction of steel and other products. Analysts say there is a danger such measures could damp be Domestic Production and consumption. Foreign demand has been sluggish due to the Global Economic slowdown. Checking the markets. Tokyo shares end in the positive for a second day despite a slightly stronger yen. For the details we go to our Business Reporter giang nguyen at the tokyo stock exchange. The slight upward revision of japans gdp did little to lift stocks. Shares moved without clear direction for much of the day. The Energy Sector helped support the index while some investors preferred the safehaven yen amid mixed economic data. The nikkei finished up 0. 93 to close at 16,830. The broader topix rose. 75 . The Energy Sector outperformed other sectors of the nikkei rising on higher oil prices. Two added 2 each. Panasonic rose 3 . Elon musk tweeted that tesla is working with panasonic for sales. An Ecommerce Firm was up after the company said it will close its u. K. And spanish sites by the end of august saying it will focus on the markets in france and germany. Market players are also showing risk aversion ahead of the Federal Reserve and bank of japan policy meetings next week. I am giang nguyen reporting from the tokyo stock exchange. Moving on to other markets in the asiapacific. Chinas trade data had little impact on the shares in the country. The shanghai composite declined by. 75 finishing at 2927. Investors avoided taking positions before a fourday holiday weekend. Sydney ended little changed at 5,369. The Energy Sector rose as crude oil climbed above 50 a barrel. Major banks were sold on diminishing hopes for further Interest Rate cuts. Seouls kospi gaining by. 8 to hit a sevenmonth high. Bank of korea holds a policy meeting on thursday. Indonesia declining by. 36 . Some investors took profits from a threeday rally. Here is a look at other business stories were following. Japans current account balance posted its 22nd straight month of surplus in april. It came in at nearly 1. 9 trillion yen or 17. 5 billion. Income from overseas investments helped. Automobile exports fell but it was offsight by a plunge in Energy Related imports amid Lower Crude Oil prices. Japanese workers are gloomy about the economy. The Economy Watchers survey shows the Sentiment Index fell by. 5 from april to 43 worsening for the second month in a row. A number below 50 indicates more pessimists than optimists. It tracks the impressions of more than 2,000 workers including store clerks and taxi drivers. Sources say a major bank is considering quitting its role as a primary dealer of japanese government bondnds. Bank of tokyo mitsubishi ufj. If the bank goes ahead with its plan it will be the first Japanese Financial Institution to g give up i its topealeler statatus. In chinana fancy weddings a all the rage, and thats creating opportunities for businesses that cater to couples as they get ready for the big day. Nhk world akihiro micota explains. Reporter a wedding fair brings a big crowd in beijing. Many are couples preparing to tie the knot. As chinese become wealthier weddings are becoming more extravagant. Companies like this Wedding Dress supplier are benefiting. Renting a dress is a cheaper option but more customers are choosing to buy instead. This dress cost about 270000 t rent and about 7,000 to purchase. Translator people with high earnings will, of course, have Higher Expectations regarding all aspects of their weddings. And younger customers are also more demanding when it comes to the quality of their wedding outfits. Reporter more couples are marrying overseas in spipite of the high cost. Many are turning to Production Companies for help. They take caree of everything from f floral arrangementnts to cecereny p plaing. Repeporr the alsoreatate pressionon quality video l like this one tt rereco the big event. Translator wealt pepele, escially men, want to celeate with big,ancy wedding. Real bash. Thats every womans dream. Reporter businesses are meeting the needs of couples who are getting ready to walk down the aisle, and they are also helping people who havent found partners. More Chinese Women are putting off marriage thanks to growing economic independence. But that does not mean they are completely free from parental pressure to get hitched. Miu works at a trading firm and has been enjoying the single life. But she recently turned 28 and has started thinking seriously about getting married. Der p preure from her parents, she is now looking for a partner. She has turned to a Popular OnlineMatchmaking Company for help. And she is not alone. More than 100 Million People have joined the site. Translator i use the site because i am not that sociable in my daily life and have little contact with people. My mother makes introductions but thats not enough, so i decided to seek outside help to find a marriage partner. Reporter not everything is done online. The Company Offers oneonone consultatitions. T translator our marriage advisors will choose an appropriate man on youour behal. We analyze members personalities and intntduce people who match them in terms of thinking and character. The most important thing is for members to make a hearttoheart connection. Reporter many chinese couples are spending big to have the weddis of the dreams. Foththe coananies at cater to them the business of marriage is becomingoree and more profitable. Akihiro mikoda, nhk world, beijing. Thats a look at biz news. I will leave you with the markets. Japanese officials are upset over a drill by south koreas military near disputed territory. Theyve lodged a protest over the exercises around the takeshima islands in the sea of japan. South koreas navy, coast guard and marinine corps troopsps sta the twoday drill on wednesday. Military Officials Say thehey a practicing how to prevent illegal inincursions. South korereas news agencncy s the exercises involve some ten vessels. Patrol aircraft and helicopters. It says the drill will serve as a strong warning to japan over its territorial claims. The south Korean Military conducts the drill twice a year. Japanese officials protest it through diplomatic channels. They said the islands are an inherit part of japans territory in terms of history and International Law and they maintain south korea is illegally occupying them. U. S. Officials lodged an official complaint with beijing over what they call dangerous behavior by Chinese Military jets. They say a chinese fighter plane conducted an unsafe intercept of u. S. Air force aircraft over the East China Sea. The u. S. Air force rc135 reconnaissance plane was flying in International Airspace on tuesday when two chinese j10 fighter jets intercepted it. U. S. Pacific command officials describe one of the jets as flying at an unsafe, excessive right of closure. They did not disclose the exact location of the incident. They also didnt say where the u. S. Plane took off from, but aircraft flying over the East China Sea usually department from a base in japans southern prefecture of okinawa. This is not the first such incident. Two chinese jets flew near an American Navy plane last month over the South China Sea. Chinas activities in the disputed waters were in focus during talks between leaders. The two sides reached agreements on a number of economic matters. But they couldnt find a diplomatic solution over disputes in the South China Sea. Nhk World Reports from beijing. We agree that our collaboration, our constructive, positive collaboration, central to addressing issuess of global reach and significance. Transnslator the two sides d nonot agree on everything, but have reached a consensus on more than 60 points. Reporter washington and beijing focused on what they were able to accomplish over the two days of talks. Many of the agreements reached Cover Economic issues. We know chinese firms are making valuable contributions to u. S. Growth and employmement. Reporter they said they will speed up talks on an invesestme pathth between the worlds two largest economies. It would ease regulations in some sectors to encourage Foreign Investment. Until now, beijing has not allowed Foreign Investment in the chinese stock market but china agreed to make an exceptioion to the rule by creating a special slot for internation international investors. The u. S. Urged china to stop flooding the Global Market with excess steel and aluminum. China said it will continue to slash steel production. And the two sides reaffirmed they will not accept north korea possessing nuclear weapons. But they remain the far apart on the most contentious issue, chinas claims over almost all of the South China Sea. I reiterated americas fundamental support for negotiations and a peaceful resolution based on the rule of law as well as, obviously, our concern about any unilateraral steps by any party whichever claimant, to alter the status quo. Translator the islands have been chinese territory since ancient times. Reporter one expert poiois out another thorny issue between the u. S. And china. President xi jinpings tightened grip over his senior officials. We have had a failure of communications. That is the point. The point is the u. S. China relations are difficult. Reporter u. S. President barack obama is expected to visit china in september. Early next year there will be a new american president , and there could also be a reshuffling of chinas leadership at next years party congress. To future negotiations depend largely on who ends up being in charge. Nhk world, beijing. China has territorial disputes with several parties in the South China Sea. Vietnam staterun media criticized what it claimims is chinas militarization of an Artificial Island in the area. The newspaper posted photos on its website of what it claims are chinese facilities on the johnson south reef of the spratly islands. The photos weree reportedly taking between late may and early june showiwing a sevensty building, a light house, a spherical structure that appeared to be radar facilities. Thee building is toppeped by wh looks like antiaircraft artillery. There is large Chinese Military vessel in nearby waters. The article says china forcibly took the reef from vietnam in 1988. Leaders in the philippines are upset with china over a separate dispute. Theyve gone to an International Arbitration court seeking a ruling that chinas claims over most of the South China Sea are invalid. But officials in beijing are urging them to negotiate instead. The Chinese ForeignMinistry Says that on multiple occasions it has proposed a regular consultation mechanism for m maritime issues but that the philippines has failed to respond. The Ministry Urges the philippines to stop what it calls wrongful conduct, referring to the arbitration. The court is expected to rule in the coming weeks, observers say china is trying to blame the philippines for the dispute. Japan coast guard officials are reporting another chinese incursion into japanese waters in the East China Sea. They say three patrol ships came close to the sen Senkaku Islands. The coast guard sent them a warning and they eventually left japans territorial waters. Its the 15th separate dayay an incursion has happened this year. Japan controls the Senkaku Islands and maintains they are an inherent part of its territory. China and taiwan claim them. Hillary clinton has claimed victory in the race for the democratic president ial nomination. Thanks to you, we have reached a milestone. First time the first time in our nations history that a woman will be add Major Party Nominee [ cheers and applause ] meanwhile clinton took a jab at the Presumptive Republican nominee, donald trump. Donald trump is temperamentally unfit to be president. He wants to win by stoking fear and rubbing salt in wounds. And reminding us daily just how great he is. [ laughter ] well, we believe we should lift each other up, not tear each other down. Even though the u. S. Media have reported that clinton has enough delegates to clinch the nomination, her rival, he senator Bernie Sanders, has yet to declare he is suspending his campaign. Democrats will make an official decision on their nominee at their july convention. Meanwhile trumpmp also addressed a crowd of supporters in new york. I am going to fight for you, the american people. The last thing we need is Hillary Clinton in the white house or an extension of the obama disaster. Trump expressed his desire to be the first republican to live in the white house in eight years. Regional tension is prompting more cooperation between the u. S. And india. The two sides say they will work more closely on Security Matters in the South China Sea and the indian ocean. Details of the agreement came after a meeting at the white house between u. S. President barack obama and indian Prime Minister narendra modi. Tities between the u. S. And ind have become closer under the obama administrations efforts to focus on asia. Earlier this year the coununtr defense officials reached a deal to cooperate on logistical support. As the worlds two largest democracies and couountries wit strong bonds between our peoples, our businesses, our scientific and educational communities, its natural that the United States and india have deepened and broadened our partnership across a whole range of issues. Modi said he is proud that the u. S. And india are using their friendly relations to exercise leadership together. Experts with japans Science Ministry have been looking into what went wrong with a satellite that spun out of control and have concluded that human error was to blame. The Japan AerospaceExploration Agency launched the hitomi satellite in february. It cost about 300 million to develop. The agency wanted to use it to study black holes and other mysteries of the universe. But they lost communication with it in late march. The scientists believe it started spinning abnormally and its solar panels broke apart. They gave up on the satellite in april. The Science Ministry experts said a combination of human errors was to blame. First the software failed. Then jaxa sent the wrong command to try to stop the spinning. The investigators blamed the way jaxa develops satellites. They say the agency asked a Single Person to create the software rather than a team of developers. And they said jaxa only had verbrbal agreements about how t divide rololes with outside partnersrs. Jaxa Officials Say theyll use the findings to review their research and development system. Police here in tokyo have arrested a 17yearold boy for allegedly uploading Illegal Software onto the internet. It allowed users to watch pay tv programs free of charge. The Police Believe the teen developed the program on his own. The police said the boy who lives in saga prefecture of southwestern japan illegally uploaded the program to the internet a year ago. Investigators say the software allowed people to view feebased tv programs free of charge on their computers. After downloading and installing the software and inputting the code of the tv program. Police say the boy has refused to talk without a lawyer present. Nhk newsline comes to you live from our studios here in tokyo where its mostly overcast with a current temperature reading of 24 degrees celsius or 75 degrees fahrenheit. Jonathan oh joins us with the World Weather outlook starting with florida. Were definitely keeping an eye on the yafaftermath of whats once Tropical Storm colin. The system is no longer in the area. It doesntt even e exist as a system. Over the past t couple of days brought a lot of rainfalll into the state of florida. So the flooding problems continue to remain in the state. Let me show you the video to give you an idea of whats been taking place where this system, colin, left the east coast tuesday, but it left severe flooding and damage in some of those areas. In largo, florida, you can see authorities walking and wading through the area. They also had to use boats and emergency equipment to evacuate 30 people from a flooded mobile home park. The water level thehe rose to 60 centimimeters. And the storm dropped as much as 250 millimeters of rainfall in some portions of the state. Like i mentioned, the system itself is gone now, but we have this cold front boundary continuing to linger over the state. So we are looking at the possibility of even more rainfall as we go forward in time. Hopefully that will move out of the area quickly. Otherwise it will compound the problem when it comes to flooding. Meanwhile, High Pressure is taking over the eastern side of the United States bringing relatively calm conditions. The exception will be over into the northeast where we had a low pressure system bringing around moisture on wednesdaday. Back too the west. High pressure is really going to be bringing v very wararm temperatures. Hot temperatures. Well see scattered showers over places like denver with some thunderstorm possibilities. High of 31. Rain into vancouver also. The forecast for nevada, temperatures are pumping up into the 40s. That will be the case as we go through the rest of this week, maybe a touch cooler by friday. But otherwise sunny skies. Los angeles looking at temperatures more stable and average for this time of year. But itits going to be sunny an dry. So thats going to be the big part of the story. Meanwhile, we look at the forecast for europe. Two areas to watch out for. One is this unstable weather pattern over france. Its been causing flooding problems especially in paris. It will slowly push to the east. It will bring a little bit of moisture into germany. So look for the possibility of clouds and also rain. Toward the north we have a low pressure system skirting through the scandinavian peninsula. That will brgg cooler temperatures and some rain. So thats going to be a big part of the forecast as we go throughout wednesday. Stockholm looking at a high of 16 with rain. Rain and thunderstorms into paris, high of 22. Rome looking at showers. High of around 26 degrees as we go through the day on wednesday. Now, wrapping things up with a look at east asia. We are looking at some very active weather in terms of lots of rainfall toward the southern portions of china. Thats been the case for the past few weeks and well continue to see that as High Pressure continues to control the weather further to the north. Drier conditions. It will force in moisture into japan by the time we go into thursday because of the nonortherly flow. That will clash withh the unstable air setup, bringing a chance for some rain and showers as we go throughout thursday. Once we go into friday t the hi will take over and well see sunny conditions. Highs will be bumping up to around 30 degrees. Here is a look at the forecast. Wet for osaka and tokyo on thursday. Highs near 30 including kumamoto starting on friday. Hope you have a good day wherever you are. Here is your extended outlook. With that, we wrap up nhk newsline. Be sure to watch bq , withthis is france 24 60 minutes live around the world. I am genie godula. These are the headlines. Hillary clinton declared herself the democratic Party Nominee after more wins in tuesdays primaries, but her rival Bernie Sanders is determined to fight on. The british Prime Minister goes on live tv to try and convince the people to stay in the european union. The referendum of the socalled brexit is now just two weeks away