Hello and welcome to NHK Newsline. I'm Yamamoto Miki in Tokyo.
People across Japan are remembering tens of thousands of lives lost 14 years ago. On this day in 2011, a massive earthquake and tsunami devastated Japan's eastern Pacific coast. triggering a nuclear accident that still impacts the region today. A warning or coverage includes images of the disaster some viewers may find disturbing.
Across the country, there was a moment of silence held at 2:46 PM, the exact time the quake occurred. People in hard-hit areas paid respects to the dead.
My father was swept away by the tsunami. Looking back on what happened at the time, we must pass on our experiences to the next generation.
Officials say over 22,000 people died or went missing, including deaths in the years that followed caused by disaster-related health problems or complications. The magnitude 9 quake struck off Japan's northeastern coast,Producing tsunami, which struck vast areas at points the waves are more than 10 meters high. The Tokyo Electric Power Company's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was severely damaged, causing subsequent meltdowns.The accident forced tens of thousands to flee. Over 20,000 Fukushima residents remained displaced. In some of the places where evacuation orders have been lifted, only small numbers have moved back. People like Sato Ukichi, who misses his neighbors.
I'm wondering what we can do to bring as many people back here as possible, but that seems difficult.
This year's commemorations come at a tough moment for people in the city of Ofunato in Iwate Prefecture. The area which was devastated by the tsunami 14 years ago was recently struck by massive wildfires. The flames were only contained a few days ago. Now residents are reflecting on two tragedies.
I hope neither a major quake, tsunami, nor a wildfire ever happens again.
Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has been arrested on a warrant issued by the International Criminal Court. The ICC accuses Duterte of crimes against humanity over his crackdown on illegal drugs. The 79-year-old was taken into custody at Manila Airport on Tuesday after arriving from Hong Kong.
What is the law? and what is the crime that I committed. Show to me now the legal basis for my being here.
While in office, Duterte's brutal crackdown on drugs led to the deaths of over 6,000 people. Duterte withdrew the Philippines from the ICC in 2019 after it opened an investigation into the killings. Current President Ferdinando Marcos Jr. ran for leadership alongside Duterte's daughter, but the alliance between the two families soured.
His administration said it would cooperate with the world body if it placed Duterte on an international wanted list.
US and Ukrainian diplomats are to meet soon in Saudi Arabia. The talks are aimed at brokering a ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia.
We have to understand the Ukrainian position and just have a general idea of what concessions they'd be willing to make. You're not going to get a ceasefire at the end of this war unless both sides make concessions.
Marco Rubio says they still need to discuss details on a deal that would give his country access to Ukraine's mineral resources. He stressed that the US president wants to get it done, but it doesn't necessarily have to happen right away. Rubio and the National Security Advisor are among the top diplomats scheduled to meet Tuesday. The Ukrainian delegation will include the foreign minister and the head of the presidential office.
Volodymyr Dubobik is an international relations professor based in Ukraine. He says Kyiv should sign the deal even if the security guarantees are not perfect.
This agreement is not necessarily in our interests of Ukraine. You know, it doesn't really give us much of what we need, like security guarantees and everything. We are still in the middle of this big war, and American support is important, vital to us, always been.
He says Ukraine still has a tough road ahead to achieve peace, mainly because Kiev and Washington are far apart on how to get there.
Elon Musk says his social media platform X has been hit by a massive cyber attack. In an interview with Fox Business on Monday, Musk claimed the attack involved IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area. A website which monitors Internet service outages says users reported they were unable to access X since Monday morning.
Media outlets in the United States say the X outages may have been caused by a major communications disruption or a glitch. Musk said X gets attacked every day, but that this one was done with a lot of resources. He said either a large coordinated group and or a country is involved.
Bloomberg has reported that Dark Storm, a pro-Palestinian hacker group, claimed responsibility on the messaging platform Telegram.
A United Nations group has kicked off two weeks of talks on women's rights. The first day included this warning from the UN chief.
Reproductive rights are under attack. New technologies, including artificial intelligence, are creating the conditions to allow for new platforms for violence and abuse, normalizing misogyny and online revenge.
Antonio Guterres was speaking to the Commission on the Status of Women. He says hard-won gains are being thrown into reverse and wage disparities and other large gaps remain, though he also reported progress on girls' education and reducing maternal mortality.
The talks saw the commission unanimously adopt the political declaration. It calls for a renewed commitment to implementing the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. The declaration is aimed at enhancing the status of women around the world. This year marks 30 years since its adoption.
Women's rights were also on the mind over the weekend. Protesters rallied to mark International Women's Day.
We have to fight for our rights. Ohh The worst is not here yet. The worst is going to come.
They say they are afraid the Trump administration may roll back policies, including abortion rights.
The head of an organization of Pacific island countries has stressed the importance of building relations with various countries amid China's increasing influence in the region.
Pacific Islands Forum Secretary-General Baron Wanga spoke with NHK on Monday. The forum is a group of 18 countries and territories in the Pacific.
The region has been subject to China's increasing influence through development aid and other measures. In 2019, Kiribati and the Solomon Islands severed diplomatic ties with Taiwan in favor of ties with China.
We don't want to take sides. So we have more to worry about than all these other geopolitical issues that are are playing out in our backyard.
Wang Ha expressed the group's disappointment with US President Donald Trump's signing of an executive order to leave the Paris Agreement, the international framework to combat climate change which has severely impacted the region. But he said the forum will cooperate closely with the new administration.
A piano that survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima has been played to remember the victims of the Great Tokyo Air Raid in World War II. The attack killed about 100,000 people in just one night.
The concert was held at Tokyo's Tsukiji Hongwanji Buddhist Temple on Monday, the 80th anniversary of the bombing. The temple had an underground air raid shelter where locals took refuge during the attack. Yagawa Mitsunori, a piano tuner in Hiroshima, transported the 85-year-old instrument for the event. He takes pianos like this all over the country as part of an initiative he calls "seeding for peace."
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing and the end of the Second World War. I hope this will be an opportunity to think about how precious peace is.
Tokyo-based American pianist Jacob Kohler has been playing the atomic bombed piano since he met Yagawa three years ago. More than 60 people gathered to listen to the tones of the piano, which miraculously withstood such devastating violence.
It really hits home because there are wars going on everywhere. Having things like this beautiful concert reminds us of the beauty of Peace's end.
Yagawa and Kohler are set to tour Japan with the atomic bombed piano throughout the year.
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Let's check out the weather with our meteorologist Jonathan Oh. So Jonathan, we've been dealing with some spotty showers around Tokyo on Tuesday. Will Wednesday be wet as well?
Going to be brutal over the next couple of days on Thursday and Friday. Looking at the forecast here again, that low will be pushing toward the east and the showers are spreading slowly toward the north and east and that will bring some additional wet weather in places like Tokyo on Wednesday, but then 21 on Thursday, hovering close to that by Friday. We have another system up north that's going to really bring down the temperatures for Sapporo on Fridays going from 11 to 5 with some snow in the forecast. You need umbrellas in Osaka over the next couple days from Wednesday to Thursday. I'll be as we look at some showers in the forecast due to that low pressure system.
We're talking about much more of a heavier rain situation over in Mozambique as Cyclone Jude has been in the area. Let's take a look at some video that's coming from the country. Cyclone Jude has made landfall in Mozambique.
That was on Monday, bringing heavy rain and strong winds. The media reported widespread infrastructure damage and power outages, parts of the country receiving more than 100 millimeters of rain in 24 hours and that led to the flooding. And of course you can see the damage from the winds of the trees there.
UNICEF says it's working to provide essential supplies to help those who have been affected. So looking at the forecast to the system over the next couple days of going latter part of this week, the storm will turn back toward the east, developing even more. So those of you in Madagascar need to be preparing now as the storm is heading in your direction.
I'm. Looking at dry weather for Tuesday, so that's the time where you want to prepare other parts of Africa toward the north looking temperatures into the 40s and upper 30s.
Hope you have a good day wherever you are.
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And that is all for this edition of NHK Newsline. I'm Yamamoto Miki in Tokyo.
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