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LINKTV Newsline July 4, 2016

Five men and said they have identified four of them. They confirmed with nhk the men in t the pictures are the suspes of the attacks. An organization calling itself islamic affiliate claimed responsibility. But the countrys home minister denies any link to the group. Theres no existence. This home grown terrorist wants to contact, but all our home grown, it is not from our country. It is our people khan said the attackers were highly educated jews from affluent families. The armed men holed up in the restaurant friday night and took people hostage. This video uploaded to facebook appears to show one of the attackers. Survivors say they were asked to recite versing from the koran. Those who couldnt were executed. The siege ended after Security Forces stormed the restaurant. Most of the victims were foreign. They included japanese, italians, americans, and an indian. Investigators are questioning the lone surviving attacker and are looking for links to islamic extremist organizations. People in bangladesh observing two days of mourning. The Prime Minister and her cabinet members attended a Memorial Service for the victims on monday. Japanese ambassador to bangladesh was also in attendance. Family members of the seven japanese victims are in dhaka. They plan to leave bangladesh to repatriate the bodies of their loved ones as early as monday night. The relatives were taken to a military facility with the remains of the victims were kept. Some were seen wiping away tears when they left the facility. The japanese victims were in dhaka working on Infrastructure Development projects. Their families say their hopes to contribute to a better life there were cut short. Tanaka was a veteran engineer working on development of roadway projects. He started an International Consulting business. Translator my brother passionately said he wanted to work for bangladesh before departure. Its a great pity he was involved in the attack being so dedicated to his work there. This man helping authorities to find ways to alleviate traffic congestion. His parents spoke of their loss. Translator since he was a child, he never caused trouble. Its more regrettable for paren parents. No parent can take it. I can barely control myself. He had planned to marry his fiancee after returning to tokyo. Bangladesh has seen attacks in the last months, this put a spotlight on the situation there. Other Asian Countries are looking at how to deal with it. Nhk worst. Reporter like in other parts of the world, people in asia have been affected. Deadly terror attacks h happene in a number of months. In january attackers set off bombs and opened fire killing four people in jakarta. A branch of islam state militant group claims responsibility. In istanbul last week a suicide bombing at an airport took 44. Authorities are looking into possible ties between the suspects and Islamic State militants. Its worrying for some that see terrorism expand from their front lawn into asia. In dhaka they have seen another change of tactics. They say recruiters are reaching out to new segment of the population. They dont want to go to the old people. Not be a problem at all. Reporter this expert in antiterror measures agrees and warns a different breed of attackers is emerging. This the new, i will say hybrid terrorist. This is no more seasoned terrorism but hybrid terrorism. Reporter he says the fact these young people have access to internet and smart phones makes them more vulnerable to extreme influence. How to deal with the problem, though, is still an open question, increased intelligence governing. A large scale government crackdown before the latest attack was counterproductive. That also marginalized some people against the authorities, which they dont realize that the more you do this, the more people will get alienated. Some urging Bangladeshi Government to continue taking action and to work with others. This will be handled brutally. We need to cooperate among all the countries together according to reports, against extremism. Reporter its a fight that may have become more difficult as authorities in bangladesh try to find ways to stop this new breed of extremist from growing. Nhk world. Iraqi government declared three days of mourning for victims affair deadly attack. A car bomb in baghdad killed at least 160 people and injured around 200 according to local media reports. Islamic state military claimed responsibility. Blew up in the city center in the predominant shia district of sunday. Security Officials Say the streets were crowded as families were breaking their ramadan fast. The extremists have called for terror attacks around the world during holy month will iraqi Prime Ministerer condemned whate called a cowardly attack and called for a period of mourning. The militant group has been losing ground in the last month. Iraqi forces regained fallujah. The city had been in the hands of the Islamic Group for two years. Turkish authorities arrested 13 people in connection with last weeks terror attack at the airport. The suspects include three foreigners. They are among 29 people detained after suicide bombers struck ataturk airport. 34 people were killed and more than 2 200 injurered. Reports say some of the suspects may have communicated with the attackers the day before the assault. Authorities are investigating the possibility they had links to the Islamic State group. Security has been further tightened across the country. The police have stationed 80 more officers at the airport. Japanese astronaut arrived for the launch of soyuz spacecraft july 7th. Onishi, a former pilot will become the 11th japanese astronaut to go into space. The 50 meter rocket arrived at the site after traveling 10 kilometersoon train at anselm bully facility. The craft is to blast off from the baikonoor in kazakhstan 1 36 utc on thursday with onishi and two others from russia and the u. S. On board. Onishi is to stay at t the International Space station for about four months while carrying out experiments on developing new medicine. The soyuz is able to reach the space station on saturday. Police in okinawa arrested a member of the u. S. Air force on suspicion of drunk driving. This comes after a week after the ban was lifted. A 27yearold in the prefecture. He was arrested driving under the influence thursday morning. He was also out hours after the military imposed curfew. They say he denies he had been drinking. Translator i believe some servicemen are to blame, not all of them. I hope this kind of thing never happens again in our prefecture. Its very regrettable that these kinds of incidents involving u. S. Servicemen and workers should not happen in the first place. Japan asks for measures. The ban on off base drinking took place in late may following the killing of a japanese woman. A civilian worker and former marine has been arrested and charged with murder. A Major Chinese Electronics Maker is entering the japanese personal Computer Market. Gene otani joins us with that story and other business headlines. Technologies will start selling a type of notebook computer in japan this month. The two in one can be used as a tablet. The Third Largest maker. Huawei will enter the japanese Computer Market for the e first time. Theroduct is aimed at business users. They have increased secururity measures which are inclu a fingerprtt reader. Thcompanyxecutive say they hope toain a large share of japans market by continuously releasing new models. Translator the history of the pc industry goes back 20 years, b but f for the past 10 s not as many business use laptops have been released. Research says the rise of smart phones has been shrinking the japanese pc since 2010. Shipments of home pcs have dropped 43 over the last six years b but theres only been a 29 decline in business use pcs. The latest Tankan Survey shows businesses well below the bank of japans target. They want the fiscal target in 2007, one projection downtown 0. 7 , down 1 percentage point from the april results. More than 10,000 businesses gave outlook, highlight factors such as crude oil prices being low and falling Consumer Price index. The wages havent seen much of a rise. The threeyear inflation outlook was 1. 1 , the same as the last survey. The fiveyear projection was 1. 1 , a slight drop from the previous tankan results. Meanwhile another survey Shows Capital in Domestic Companies remain firm. Companies expect 2. 6 of growth in Capital Investment through the fiscal year march 2017. Thats smaller than 9. 3 last year. The actual figure might change because it doesnt reflect eu and following brexit vote. Large manufacturers made assumptions on the assumptions being 111 level. It has many manufacturers worried about declines in revenue. Bangladesh tightening security after fridays deadly terror attack. They instructed employees they are to stay at home and they have advised others against traveling to the country for the time being. Aboutut 240 japanese firms d affiliateses operatete in bangladesh. Toshiba has an office in dhaka. It instructed employees to put off trips to bangladesh until july 10th. Major construction firms obayashi building bridges. They have urged workers to stay home. A retail Group Running retail clothing chain has told their staff to do the same. The low labor cos in bangladesh are prompting japanese textile makers and others to relocate from china where wages are rising. The chairman of the Japan Association of corpoporate executives commented on how companies can protect their employees. Companies entering new frontiers in asia and africa amid globalization. Businesses cant stop this expansion. Companies must take measures to protect employees from terrorist attacks. Kobayashi said its important for businesses to do things such as conveying Safety Information from Japanese Foreign minister to employees. Turning to the market tokyo stocks higher extending their recovery since tumbling after the brexit results. For the details our Business Reporter phoebe amaroso reports from the stock exchange. Reporter it was another finish in trading, further easing from the bank of japan following the brexit vote. Nikkei 225 added. 6 to 15,775 posting sixth straight day of gain. The topix rose by same margins. Investors were reluctant to make any market moves. Leading gains shares related to Industrial Metals due to higher commodity prices. Toho sync 7. 17 . Konica 2. 01, lowered price target analysts say precision Instrument Companies will see the largest impact from brexit among japanese firms. On the currency Market Investors recovered a little appetite for risk and sold the yen, the dollar firm against yen in japanese trading hours. Monetary easing from major Central Banks and still closely watching britain. They will be listening to bank of england governors News Conference on tuesday. Phoebe amaroso at the stock exchange. Moving to asiapacific, starting China Shanghai composite gaining almost 2 at 2988. Analysts say many expect new measures following data. Gaining 0. 7 of 1 . 5281. Higher commodity prices, unclear results in a federal election weighed on major banks. Looking at other market, south korea, seoul, extending its winning strength to a sickth day. Hang seng 1 1 4 . Property shares jumped on those hopes for stimulus in china. Lets now take a look at our business calendar for the week. On tuesday policymakers rer reserve bank of australia will hold a reserve meeting, compiled by private research firm. Nonmanufacturing has been one of the few proprietabrights spots chinese economy. Indexes of Business Conditions for may. Friday japanese officials released International Balance of payments also for may. The weekend u. S. Employment data for june this indicator shook up the market last month when it showed a surprise drop in job growth. Every monday we ask specialist toss share their perspective on the week. This expert view we hear from an economist at daiichi Life Research institute. Hes expecting to see considerable recovery in the u. S. Jobs market. Translator a strike in may caused downturn, the end of the strike should push job numbers higher. Payroll growth should reach mid 100,000 level. The corporate sector remained weak in the april june quarter due to continueded low oil pric but personal consumption is showing signs of improvement and gdp growth will likely improve from around 1 to about 3 . Likely timing of u. S. Rate hike, risk factors at home and abroad could cause feds to delay the long awaited move. Translator if you just look at the fundamentals, it seems likely the feds will raise Interest Rates in september, but the fed has become more sensitive to Downside Risks after stepping up its risk management. The risk factors on the horizon now are britains exit from the eu and u. S. President ial election in november. The fed could go ahead with the Interest Rate hike in september if Financial Markets take an optimistic view of these risk factors and remain stable. If the market fluctuates wildly the fed may decide to postpone the rate hike until december. And thats a look at business news. Im going to leave you with the markets. Growing up isnt always easy for kids. The pressures they face can make school difficult. In japan 180,000 have stopped going to regular schools. Instead many end up attending alternative institutions known as free schools. Nhk world reports. Reporter this free school has been set up in a room in a highrise building in one of central tokyos business neighborhoods. Twenty of those students who come here have stopped attending conventional schools or had to drop out. The room is normally part of a prep school for would be lawyers and public accountants. But the classrooms arent used much during the day, so this is linked to the free school at no cost. This man runs the free school. One of its major expenses is the rental he pace for classroom space. To save money he came up with the idea of using spaces that are not in use during school hours. Another place hes found thats empty during the daytime is this traditional tavern. He can use the main dining room as a classroom until 3 00 p. M. , and its also rentfree. Translator we use this private dining room as a counseling room for students. This is also where we meet with parents. Reporter the Restaurant Owner was happy to provide a study space for the students. Translator all they needed was the space so we offered it to them. We think its a good way to give back to the community. Reporter using this unusual space has had one unexpected outcome. This man used to attend classes here. From the time he was in junior high school, he wouldnt go to a regular school and avoided interacting with other people. But coming here places him in a position where he has to interact socially. Gradually he began to open up. Six months ago he started a parttime job in the kitchen. Careful with the angle of the skewer. Yes, chef. Twice a week he helps preparing the food. Translator i used to think id never be able to do anything but ive started to feel like i can do this job. Its gratifying that the students can get out and actually regain some social skills providing this space that would otherwise be empty is one way of supporting our work. This free school offers itst students more ththan just learning. By Holding Classes in different spaces, its opening up possibilities for their future. Nhk world, tokyo. Lets hope the movement spreads. Thanks for that report. Youre watching nhk newsline live from tokyo. The western pacific is seeing this years first Tropical Storm system with a name. Jonathan oh joins us with the details. Hello. It looks like the system will be getting closer and closer toward china as we go forward throughout the rest of this week. Right now were keeping an eye on the system, because for the moment, it is a Tropical Storm. But as we go throughout the day on tuesday into wednesday, were expecting this thing to really blow up and become a very strong typhoon. So it is expected to create some very serious conditions in places like taiwan and also the east coast of mainland china, going throughout the rest of this week. Here is the name of the Tropical Storm. Nepartak. It is moving to the northwest at 30 kilometers per hour. It is holding winds at 83, gusting 108. Now to give you an idea where we are. Theres guam, theres the center of the Tropical Storm. It is expected to move to the north and west. By tuesday, were expecting it to become a typhoon. But notice the area, the cone where were seeing the cone. It is over water, but it will intensify, and by thursday, we will see rough surf and conditions will deteriorate over taiwan. Once it gets past that, well have to keep an eye out and see what it actuallyly does. Because it has a decent clip of speed, it looks like the rain thats going to drdrop over the watersrs may not be thatigh. H. But notice as we go toward the third day, close to thursday, were looking at the possibility of seeing 200 millimeters of rainfall right off the cost of taiwan. It is expected to bring a lot of rainfall with it. Meanwhile,

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