Key words : putin visited helicopter
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20230319_14/
Russian state-run media say President Vladimir Putin has visited the occupied port city of Mariupol in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk.
It is Putin's first reported visit to an area of Ukraine occupied by Russia since it started its invasion last year. Russia unilaterally annexed the Donetsk region in September.
Sunday's media reports on the trip cited an announcement by the Russian presidential office.
Tass news agency said Putin flew to Mariupol by helicopter. Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin, who oversees urban development for the Putin administration, reportedly briefed the president on construction of housing and medical facilities in the area.
Tass also said Putin drove a car to inspect several locations in the city, and talked with local residents.
The agency said Putin also went to military headquarters in the southern Russian region of Rostov, which neighbors Ukraine and is close to the front. He received reports from the commander of all Russian troops in Ukraine, Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov.
On Saturday, Putin traveled to Crimea. The peninsula was unilaterally annexed by Russia from Ukraine in 2014.
This come as Ukraine appears poised to launch counteroffensives in the southern and eastern parts of the country in the near future.
Key words : united nations grain export
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20230319_04/
The United Nations and Turkey have announced that the Russia-Ukraine grain export deal has been extended. But they did not specify for how long.
The UN and Turkey brokered the deal to ensure the safe passage of ships exporting Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea. The agreement was set to expire on Saturday.
On that day, the UN and Turkey announced the extension in separate statements.
After it was announced, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said on social media that Moscow had agreed to a 60-day extension.
The agreement covered a 120-day period. Moscow proposed an extension of 60 days. It said Russian agricultural exports remain limited.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov tweeted that the deal has been extended for 120 days.
The discrepancy has raised concerns about the future of the agreement. This all comes as the world continues to face the risk of food shortages.
Key words : north fired maximum
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20230319_13/
Japan's Defense Ministry says North Korea has fired a ballistic missile. Government officials say it seems to have fallen into the sea outside Japan's Exclusive Economic Zone. The officials say there have been no reports of damage so far.
Japan's Defense Ministry says the missile reached a maximum altitude of about 50 kilometers and flew a distance of approximately 800 kilometers before accurately landing on a target area in the Sea of Japan.
South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff says it was a short-range ballistic missile, and the launch site was near the North Korean city of Tongchang-ri, in the country's northwest.
North Korea last fired a ballistic missile on Thursday. The country claimed that was a "launching drill" of its new model of inter-continental ballistic missile, the Hwasong-17. That model is believed to be capable of reaching anywhere on the US mainland.
North Korea is increasing criticism of an ongoing joint military drill by the US and South Korea.
This was the seventh launch of a ballistic missile by North Korea this year.
Key words : defense minister ino irregular path
#N/A
Key words : strong earthquake ecuador
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20230319_10/
A strong earthquake struck southern Ecuador on Saturday, killing at least 15 people.
Fourteen of the victims died in Ecuador, and one person was killed in neighboring Peru. At least 381 people were injured in Ecuador.
The US Geological Survey said the quake with an estimated magnitude of 6.8 hit southern Ecuador shortly after midday, local time. The focus of the quake had an estimated depth of 65.8 kilometers.
Ecuador's government says a number of houses collapsed in areas near the epicenter. In the southern town of Cuenca, a wall fell onto a vehicle, killing a person inside.
In Peru, a 4-year-old girl was hit in the head when a building collapsed. She was rushed to a hospital but was later confirmed dead.
Key words : architect ban contributing
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20230319_06/
Japanese architect Ban Shigeru is contributing his expertise to help people who lost their homes in the devastating earthquakes in Turkey last month.
Ban is working with students at Shibaura Institute of Technology in Tokyo to make prototypes of temporary housing with materials such as cardboard tubes and wood panels. Those parts are available in Turkey and are designed to be easily assembled on site.
Ban wants to start installing the structures as early as May with the help of Turkish people he worked with back in 1999, when a major quake hit western Turkey.
He says he designed the shelters with improved insulation and durability so that they can be used on a long-term basis.
Ban says many people lost their homes and are still too anxious to sleep as aftershocks continue. He says those people will be able to feel safe in the shelters made with light materials because they will not hurt people inside if they collapse.
Around 230,000 buildings were heavily damaged by the tremors in Turkey.
Ban is known as "the cardboard tube architect of action" for the unique building materials he uses and his relief efforts in disaster-hit areas around the world. He won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2014.
Key words : switzerland banking group
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20230319_09/
Tense negotiations over a potential takeover of Switzerland's troubled Credit Suisse by the country's largest banking group, UBS, are nearing a critical juncture, with trading in the financial markets set to reopen on Monday.
Media reported that it is still on the table whether the acquisition will cover all of Credit Suisse's businesses, or only some of them.
And UBS is reportedly asking the Swiss authorities to cover losses stemming from the acquisition and future litigation costs.
Earlier on Thursday, Credit Suisse announced it was ready to take a credit line from the country's central bank to raise 54 billion dollars in emergency funds.
Market analysts say the central bank is requesting the parties involved in the acquisition to take appropriate measures with the aim of stabilizing the monetary system.
Key words : researcher alzheimer
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20230319_02/
A group of researchers says an experiment it conducted on mice has demonstrated that Alzheimer's medications can be efficiently delivered to the brain when encapsulated in tiny particles.
Recently developed Alzheimer's drugs use antibodies to remove a protein that accumulates in the brain. It is believed that the protein triggers the disease. But sufficient supplies of whole antibodies cannot pass through the blood-brain barrier because whole antibodies are too large.
Tokyo Medical and Dental University's Professor Yokota Takanori and others created fragmented antibodies and sealed them in what is called a nanomachine.
The researchers then injected the encapsulated antibody fragments into mice that have Alzheimer's.
The group says results show the use of the nanomachine enabled about 80 times more antibody fragments to be delivered to the brain than the direct administration of fragments did.
It also says the amounts of the abnormal protein decreased by more than three-quarters, and the mice were able to retain their memory better.
Yokota says using the method could make the medications more effective and lower the prices of the drugs. He says his team will continue to do research, so the method can be used to help humans as soon as possible.
The findings have been published in the Journal of Nanobiotechnology.
0 件のコメント:
コメントを投稿