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00:00Welcome to New Zealand Tokyo. I'm Yamasawa Rina and I'm Yoshikawa Ryuichi. Here are the headlines.
00:19A bear enters an airport in northern Japan, briefly putting a runway out of action.
00:25New Delhi reels after a deadly car explosion. Reports say the suspect is a doctor from disputed Kashmir.
00:35And kids in Australia are being banned from social media. But will the new law actually keep them lugged out?
00:44Bears can't keep themselves out of the headlines here in Japan these days.
00:48They are straying into urban areas at an alarming rate. Attacks are surging and a record 13 people have died this fiscal year alone.
01:02Iwate Hanamaki Airport in northern Japan had an unwanted visitor on Wednesday.
01:08Officials say the bear intruded shortly after 1 p.m. Departures and landings were halted for more than an hour.
01:15A bear injured a man elsewhere in Iwate Prefecture earlier in the day.
01:21Police say the 47-year-old was walking his dog when he encountered two bears and one charged.
01:29The victim was reportedly able to speak after the attack. He was taken to a hospital.
01:36Police in the prefectural capital, Morioka, say they received reports of a bear roaming the city center.
01:43They were also alerted about a bear near a junior high school, which was temporarily closed as a precaution.
01:52Authorities say both incidents were likely the same bear.
01:58Authorities in Japan don't want the bear crisis to get even worse.
02:03NHK has learned about a series of measures drawn up by the central government.
02:09They will likely be announced in the coming days.
02:11People trained and experienced in using firearms will be encouraged to obtain hunting licenses.
02:21Examples include former police officers and members of self-defense forces.
02:27Experts will teach current police officers how to kill bears and keep them away from populated areas.
02:34Financial assistance will also be provided for rifles, protective gear, traps and electric fences.
02:43The government aims to monitor bear populations more closely and set up sanctuaries to keep them away from people.
02:51Other steps include grants for local municipalities.
02:55Cabinet ministers are expected to formally adopt the package in the coming days.
03:00They want the measures implemented as soon as possible.
03:06Bears are also a problem in Romania.
03:09Authorities there have eased hunting regulations in light of a surge in attacks.
03:20The country has one of the largest brown bear populations in Europe.
03:24They are a celebrated part of the local culture.
03:29But sightings in populated areas have showed up since 2016 when recreational hunting of the animal was banned.
03:38A bear fatally attacked a tourist on a highway in July.
03:42Authorities say 11 people have been killed and 158 injured in the past five years.
03:49The Romanian government announced last week that bears in populated areas can be shot when deemed a threat to humans.
03:59Recent estimates suggest the country's wild bear population could be as high as 13,000.
04:07Some lawmakers are calling for a large-scale cull.
04:10The main goal is to have in Romania a population of 5,000, 6,000 wild, healthy brown bears.
04:23But others opposed the idea, saying humans should change how they live.
04:29The problem is not the bear. It's a human problem.
04:33Some experts say bear attacks are rising because real estate developments are infringing on their natural habitat.
04:50They also say some people feed the bears, which encourages them to enter populated areas.
04:56And now let's go to Cholapansa Narula in our Bangkok studio for stories making headlines across the Asia Pacific.
05:17We start with an update on the deadly blast in India's capital, New Delhi.
05:21Local media say the suspect who drove the car that exploded was a doctor from the disputed Kashmir region.
05:32The explosion on Monday night struck close to the historic Red Fort, killing eight people and injuring others.
05:39Local media citing investigators say the suspect who died in the blast may have had links to Islamic militants seeking independence for the Kashmir region.
05:47The reports also say police had seized large quantities of explosives and chemical substances used in bomb-making from the premises of two doctors from Kashmir.
05:58The same chemicals are believed to have been found at the site of Monday's blast.
06:03The reports also say several doctors may have formed a white-collar terrorist network.
06:08Meanwhile, neighboring Pakistan, a powerful blast struck the capital Islamabad on Tuesday, killing 12.
06:13Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif strongly condemned the incident as a terrorist attack by Indian-backed extremists.
06:20But he presented no evidence of India's involvement.
06:23The Indian Foreign Ministry has rejected the claim, calling it a fabrication.
06:28Australia and Indonesia have agreed on a new security treaty that will commit the two sides to consult each other if one or both of them faces a threat.
06:37Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto announced the deal on Wednesday after meeting in Sydney.
06:47Under the treaty, leaders and ministers of both nations will also hold regular talks to identify and conduct mutually beneficial security activities.
06:57Albanese said the two countries share commitment to peace and stability in the region.
07:01This treaty is a recognition from both our nations that the best way to secure that peace and stability is by acting together.
07:14It signals a new era in the Australia-Indonesia relationship.
07:20Good neighbors are essential.
07:24Good neighbors will help each other in times of difficulties.
07:27Good neighbors are essential.
07:57Good neighbors are essential.
07:59Good neighbors are essential.
08:00Half a century after the Khmer Rouge genocide, Cambodia's healthcare system remains underdeveloped despite high economic growth.
08:08Access to pediatric care, in particular, is limited and infant mortality rates are higher than in developed nations.
08:15But a Japanese NGO is supporting local efforts to change the situation.
08:20NHK World Camino Takehiro reports.
08:23This hospital is about an hour's drive from the capital of Phnom Penh and provides high-quality medical care to anyone.
08:33It was established about 10 years ago by a Japanese NGO and is funded by the nations.
08:40Some patients travel for hours to get treatment.
08:42I was in despair because some hospitals wouldn't accept us.
08:49I thought there was no hope of curing my child.
08:52When we came here, we were accepted and I didn't have to pay anything.
08:56The hospital's Japanese director, Kojiro Maiko, and her staff have been focusing on pediatric cancer treatment.
09:06It is estimated that more than 700 children a year develop cancer in Cambodia.
09:12But survival rates are low due to a serious shortage of doctors and low medical standards.
09:21Only about half of patients are believed to receive appropriate care.
09:27The problems date back to the atrocities of the 1970s.
09:32The Khmer Rouge regime systematically killed intellectuals, including doctors.
09:39And it's said only a few dozen physicians survive.
09:44It wasn't just hospitals and health care provision that collapsed, but also the education system.
09:50Everything came to a complete halt with all the senior doctors gone.
09:54It will still take time for the quality of medical care to recover.
09:58After peace was restored in the 1990s, Cambodia worked to rebuild its health care system
10:06with support from the international communities, including Japan.
10:11Now, a new generation of Cambodian doctors is finally starting to play an active role.
10:1937-year-old Shipan was inspired to pursue a career in pediatric medicine
10:26after a doctor saved his life as a child.
10:30He has acquired knowledge and experience working alongside Japanese doctors.
10:38In Cambodia, we lack medical education,
10:42and our resources for acquiring knowledge are still limited.
10:47I want to use what I have learned for the benefit of all hospitals.
10:57At the same time, the number of patients is increasing.
11:02The NGO opened a new pediatric hospital this month to help meet demand.
11:08It is expected to have significantly more Cambodian staff.
11:12Shipan hopes to help train the junior doctors who will support Cambodia's health care development.
11:21I want to bring medical care in Cambodia up to the same level
11:28as the countries that are leading in this field.
11:34The hospital hopes that it can improve medical standards
11:37by establishing a system that enables Cambodias to become self-sufficient
11:42in nurturing human resources.
11:46Kamino Takehiro, NHK World, Kandau Province, Cambodia.
11:52That wraps up our bulletin.
11:53I'm Chola Pansana, ruler in Bangkok.
11:57Children in Australia will soon learn firsthand about life before social media.
12:03Anyone under the age of 16 will be banned from nine major platforms starting next month.
12:11Today is exactly one month until our world-leading social media laws
12:17come into effect on December the 10th.
12:20This is about letting kids be kids.
12:23It's also about empowering parents to be able to have those discussions with their children.
12:29The law aims to protect young people from a host of online hazards such as cyberbullying.
12:38The ban includes Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat.
12:42They will be required to freeze the accounts of under-16s and stop them from creating more.
12:49The companies have largely opposed the law,
12:52but some, including Meta, which operates Facebook and Instagram,
12:56say they will take measures to comply.
12:59For more, we are now joined by NHK World's Jennifer Walpole in Sydney.
13:06So Jennifer, how strictly will Australia be implementing the law?
13:13The government released guidelines for social media companies in September,
13:17including a list of technologies to verify people's age.
13:21Which methods they use will be up to them.
13:22The guidelines say social media platforms must demonstrate that they've taken reasonable steps
13:28to prevent age-restricted users from having an account.
13:32We tested several of the age verification systems listed by the government.
13:36They scan faces, voices and hand motions with a significant degree of accuracy.
13:41But they are not fail-safe.
13:43What's more, children are already posting videos explaining how to get around the ban.
13:48And if the kids aren't taking it seriously,
13:52can we rely on social media platforms to take the initiative?
13:58Possibly.
13:59But time is running out.
14:01Officials at Meta, which owns Instagram and Facebook,
14:04told Australian Parliament last month that they're still refining their approach.
14:08TikTok says it's working on meeting the requirements.
14:12And Snapchat says it will disable underage accounts from December 10th.
14:18Google, the parent company of YouTube,
14:20says children will still be able to access the platform without an account.
14:25And the company has yet to reveal how it plans to comply with the ban.
14:30So we will see how it goes.
14:32Jennifer, are any other countries following Australia's lead?
14:36Actually, yes.
14:40Denmark has announced plans to ban under-15s from social media,
14:45but will allow parental permission from age 13.
14:48New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon plans to look into a social media ban.
14:55Australia's Communications Minister says Greece, Romania and France
14:58are also looking into a similar ban.
15:01Authorities in the US state of Florida have passed a similar law,
15:05but it's facing stiff opposition from the tech sector.
15:10Will children the world over eventually be banned from social media?
15:14Time will tell.
15:15But I get the impression you can't just put the genie back in the bottle.
15:19Thank you, Jennifer.
15:20That was NHK Awards.
15:21Jennifer Walpole and Sydney.
15:23Artificial intelligence is a big issue in the workplace,
15:38where concern is growing that its emergence will take away jobs.
15:42And we are already seeing this in reality.
15:46You, Kof Kishma from our business desk, joins us now on how AI is impacting employment.
15:52Yes.
15:53U.S. tech giant Amazon last month announced 14,000 layoffs.
15:57One of the reasons management gave was AI.
16:01The company is not alone.
16:02A survey released in September shows a total of 37,000 American jobs were lost
16:07due to introduction of AI, or technological innovation, since the beginning of this year.
16:14Hi.
16:16Megan Elrod was suddenly let go in February.
16:20Elrod used to analyze customer data for a San Francisco-based software company, Autodesk.
16:25The firm said it cut jobs to free up funds for investment in AI and other strategic priorities.
16:34I didn't have a sense that it was being really strongly integrated into our work at Autodesk at the time.
16:39That was cited as a reason for the layoff, was improvements in AI.
16:46Elrod's experience has become increasingly common in the U.S. tech sector.
16:50An expert says companies are under pressure to invest heavily in AI to survive.
16:56Developing AI can be expensive in terms of compute and data costs.
17:00Then sometimes some of that money that's been in the process of restructure,
17:04pulled back from salaries, is being reinvested in development costs.
17:09Some firms in Japan have also prioritized AI investment over human resources.
17:14This company is conducting a trial in which it lets AI decide if expenses submitted by staff should be approved or rejected.
17:25A task that a human worker used to take three hours to complete is accomplished by AI in half an hour.
17:32In the beginning, we were looking to hire people for this task,
17:37but we soon discovered that AI would be a better solution given the cost of recruitment and training,
17:43as well as the possibility that an employee might quit.
17:49The company providing the service says more firms are opting to use its AI solutions
17:54rather than hire new staff or outsource tasks.
17:58I talked to Inoue Tomohiro, a university professor who studies the impact of artificial intelligence on the workforce.
18:07He says although there have been many innovations that have deprived workers of jobs in the past,
18:12this time is different.
18:14He makes a comparison to the rise of the steam engine during the Industrial Revolution.
18:18Even if steam locomotives were developed more, they could never become humans and take over jobs done by them.
18:29AI and AI-powered robots are different.
18:32The more they are developed, the more they become like humans.
18:36So during the first revolution, many jobs were lost, but it was only temporary.
18:41The job losses from AI will continue for a long time.
18:47And in the worst-case scenario, the number of jobs lost will increase exponentially.
18:54In OSS, we have truly entered a new frontier.
18:58That's because AI has been developed to take on roles that, up to this point, were performed exclusively by humans.
19:05People say the emergence of AGI, or Artificial General Intelligence, is near.
19:12It's a super AI that can conduct many tasks on par with humans.
19:18Also progressing rapidly are so-called general-purpose robots.
19:22I think AGI's arrival will be around 2030, while general-purpose robots will be online in the decade of the 2030s or around 2040.
19:31But Inoue maintains there will still be an important role for people to play in the workplaces of the future.
19:41It's expected humans will give basic instructions to AI, and then it works on its own.
19:47But they will need to continue instructing AI, because it may go in directions that conflict with human values.
19:54They will need to draw on their experience and values when doing this.
19:57I think that will be a key human role in the age of AI.
20:01Inoue says resisting artificial intelligence just because it may eliminate jobs is the wrong approach.
20:09He says if Japan does not embrace AI, the country's firms and people will lose out to global competition in every field.
20:18And out of the markets.
20:18Well, in Tokyo, the Nikkei closed a day higher by four-tenth of a percent.
20:22AI and semiconductor-related shares were sold in the morning.
20:26But in the afternoon, some were bought back.
20:28As earnings season winds up, investors seem relieved.
20:31Most Japanese firms came out with relatively solid figures.
20:35In the rest of Asia, most indexes gained as investors saw the U.S. government shut down.
20:41It is likely to end soon.
20:42The hands-on in Hong Kong added a tenth of a percent.
20:45In South Korea, the KOSPI rose more than one percent.
20:49The key benchmark also rose on reports the government will offer incentives to long-term stock investors.
20:55The sensex in India climbed seven-tenths of a percent, as many managers hope a trade deal with the U.S. is near.
21:02And that's what it is for this Wednesday.
21:04The head of the International Criminal Court has called for global cooperation to help it maintain its independence and impartiality.
21:20This comes amid growing pressure on the court from major powers.
21:27ICC President Akane Tomoko spoke at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday.
21:33The Japanese judge has been serving as president since last year.
21:37The ICC has a mandate to try individuals charged with genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and aggression.
21:46Some countries have been putting pressure on the court in recent years.
21:50In 2023, Russia placed Akane on a wanted list after the ICC issued an arrest warrant for President Vladimir Putin on war crimes charges for the invasion of Ukraine.
22:04And earlier this year, the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump announced sanctions on some ICC judges.
22:11It condemned the court's arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others in connection with the war in the Gaza Strip.
22:21Akane expressed her concerns about the current state of affairs, saying coercion poses a serious threat to the administration of justice.
22:30The judges of the international criminal court act without fear or favor.
22:37When these judges are pressured, threatened or undermined, the credibility of international law itself weakened.
22:49Akane added the ICC will continue to act with full independence and impartiality.
22:58Many countries expressed their support for the speech.
23:01But the representative of Israel, which is a NUM member, responded by accusing the ICC of making repeated attempts to assert jurisdiction where there is none.
23:49It's just a lot of rain, so it's a lot of rain.
23:54So it's a lot of rain, so it's a lot of rain.
24:19And now it's time for a look at world weather with our meteorologist, Jonathan Ah.
24:29Hello. We have been telling you about the frigid temperatures that are going to be blasting through the eastern portion of the United States and, of course, into Canada as well.
24:39But as we went through Tuesday, some of the temperatures really fell as far south as Georgia and the Carolinas, where overnight lows were at or below freezing.
24:50And because of that, we also ended up seeing some winter weather up toward the Great Lakes region.
24:54Here's a look at some video that's coming out from there.
24:57People in the Great Lakes region, as well as the northeastern United States, were whacked with frigid temperatures and a heavy dumping of snow Tuesday, and that made roads dangerous for driving.
25:07The National Weather Service reported that Rochester received 11.4 centimeters of snow over a 24-hour period.
25:14The cold air over the relatively warm waters of the Great Lakes helped generate a significant amount of lake-effect snow, and the winds helped carry that far inland into parts of Pennsylvania and New York.
25:25And that's not the end of the story.
25:26We actually have another system rolling over the Great Lakes, and that will bring even more snow possibilities from Toronto points eastward as we go from Wednesday into Thursday.
25:36And then we should see things backing off a bit.
25:39Elsewhere around the United States, high pressures controlling the weather except for the west coast.
25:43We've been talking about these waves of moisture rolling on through another system moving into the Pacific Northwest, so you'll need the umbrellas.
25:49It's going to be quite wet.
25:51Vancouver at 11.14 in Seattle.
25:53Snow into Toronto with a high of 6.
25:55Down toward the deep south.
25:56Highs into the mid-teens as we go through Wednesday.
25:59Looking at what's happening over with Hong Kong as it continues to try to keep itself together.
26:05It's actually starting to fall apart, but the moisture, the momentum, along with the stationary front, will continue to bring heavy rain from Taiwan into Okinawa as we go throughout the next day or so before it starts to try to peter out.
26:18Going up to the north, a good portion of Japan is staying relatively dry, but a cold front will help to bring some wet weather into Sapporo by Thursday.
26:26Tokyo looking at clouds with a high of 16.
26:29Hope you have a good day wherever you are.
27:30And that's it for this edition of Newsroom Tokyo.
27:39You can catch this program on our website.
27:41I'm Yoshikara Ryuichi.
27:43And I'm Yamasa Arena.
27:44Thank you very much for watching.
27:46Please join us again tomorrow.
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