. >>> leaders of china and mongolia are deepening economic ties. ai uchida joins us with more. >> the two nations already trade a lot of raw materials but china would like to scour a better foothold in its resource-rich neighbor. the leaders of both countries have agreed to deepen ties across a range of trade and economic issues. chinese president xi jinping is in mongolia for talks with the president. chinese media say the two signed an accord strengthening cooperation in trade, resources development, infrastructure projects and other areas. china is mongolia's largest trade partner largely thanks to exports of coal and copper. china wants to secure energy resources by helping to improve mongolia's infrastructure. it also hopes to use these economic links to boost political ties. analysts say mongolia has been wary of allowing china too much influence. so it has been building ties with japan which it calls mongolia's third neighbor after china and russia. >>> a task force with japan's main ruling party will call for a lower tax rates in regional e

as christine mentioned i live in mongolia. is there anybody else here from mongolia tonight? yeah, a couple. so i wrote most of this book while i was living in mongolia. and just by way of background,xÑ k4ek(?yk folklore. any other folklore majors here today? folklore was a great training for writing books. it really involves research and interviewing and paying attention, basically. but when i graduated in 1988, it may surprise you but back then there weren't nearly as many folklore jobs as there are today. and so i ended up going out to seattle. just moved to seattle. and that's where i kind of drifted into public radio. back then it was more like a welfare program for people with

as christine mentioned, i live in mongolia. is there anybody else here from mongolia tonight? do we have -- yeah, a couple. so i wrote moist of this book while i was living in mongolia. by way of background, give you a little background about myself and kind of how this book came about. i went to college in philadelphia. i'm originally from philadelphia. and i went to university of pennsylvania and majored in english for a semester. i found out i didn't really like to read fiction. i've always preferred nonfiction so since i didn't like to read it, i wouldn't read it, and i got a d in freshman english and decided, well, maybe that's a sign i should try another field. and so i switched my major to folklore. any other folklore majors here today? folklore actually was a great training for writing books. it really involves research and interviewing and paying attention basically. but when i graduated in 1988, it may surprise you, but back then there weren't nearly as many folklore jobs as there are today and so i ended up going out to seattle, just moved to seattle, and that's whe

i live in mongolia. anybody else from mongolia? a couple. i wrote most of this book while living in mongolia. just to dwif give you a little background and how the book came about, i went to college in philadelphia. i'm originally from philadelphia. i went to university of pennsylvania and middle-agajorm english. i've always preferred nonfiction, so since i didn't like to read it, i wouldn't read it, and i got a d in freshman english and decided maybe that's a sign i should try another field and so, i switched my major to folklore. any other folklore majors here today? it was great training for writing books. it really involves research and interviewing and paying attention basically, but when i graduated in 1988, may surprise you, but back then, there weren't as many folklore jobs as there are today. i moved to seattle and that's when i drifted into public radio. back then, it was more like a radio program for people with folklore degrees and it was very helpful as well in teaching me how to write and research and how to write clearly and c

they know diplomats in mongolia maintain ties with their counterparts in north korea. they asked the mongolian foreign minister to look into the matter. the lawmakers headed to the capital to celebrate 40 years of cultural exchanges between japan and mongolia. they asked foreign minister luvanvandan bold for his help with the return of japanese abducted decades ago. north korean authorities launched another investigation into the fates of more than a dozen japanese abducted or missing. bold said his government would do whatever it can. mongolian officials hosted talks between japanese and north korean officials several times. in march, they provided a venue for the meeting between the parents of one of the abductees and their granddaughter who was born in north korea. north korean agents kidnapped -- in 1977. her parents don't know what became of her. >>> america's big-name coffee shops are familiar sights around the world. but on their home turf, smaller specialists outfits are giving a run for their money by offering what the coffee giants cant. nhk world's -- report

as christine mentioned i live in mongolia. is there anybody else here from mongolia tonight? yeah, a couple. so i wrote most of this book while i was living in mongolia. and just by way of background, a little background about myself and how the book came about, i went to college in philadelphia. i'm originally from philadelphia. and i went to university of pennsylvania and majored in english for a semester. i found out i didn't really like to read fiction. i always preferred non-fiction. since i didn't like to read it, i wouldn't read it and i got a "d" in freshman english and decided maybe that's a sign i should try another field. and so, i switched my major to folklore. any other folklore majors here today? folklore was a great training for writing books. it really involves research and interviewing and paying attention, basically. but when i graduated in 1988, it may surprise you but back then there weren't nearly as many folklore jobs as there are today. and so i ended up going out to seattle. just moved to seattle. and that's where i kind of drifted into public radio. b

in that being or thing. merroooo maew, meooowwww (levin) tuva sits on just the northwest border of mongolia. politically, it's part of russia. it's a small place and its people have always been herders. they herd sheep, yak, goats, and when you live all of the time with animals, you develop a very close relationship with the animals. and so there's actually many forms of music that are used to interact with animals. they're part of the environment. horses occupy a central place in the life of tuvans and there's a lot of music that's also related to horses in different ways. first of all, the instruments-- they're made of horses. the igil for instance, the two string fiddle, is made from the skin of a horse, which is on the head of the instrument. the strings are made from horse gut. the bow is made from horse hair and, in fact, a lot of the music that's performed on that instrument is about horses. there's a legend about a horse that dies and goes to heaven. and the owner of the horse hears the voice of his beloved animal coming to him from the heavens. and the horse tells him to build this

so i wrote most of this book while i was living in mongolia. just a little background about myself and how the book came about. i went to college in philadelphia. i'm originally from philadelphia. and i went to university of pennsylvania and majored in english for a semester. i found out i didn't really like to read fiction. i've always preferred non-fiction. so since i didn't like to read it, i wouldn't read it and i got a d in freshman english and i thought maybe that's a sign i should try another field. and so i switched my major to folklore. any other folklore majors here today? folklore was actually a great training. when i graduated in 1988 it may surprise you, but back then, there within the as many folklore jobs. so i moved to seattle and that's where i drifted into public radio. back then, it was more like a welfare program for people with folklore degrees. it was very helpful, as well, in teaching me how to research and write clearly and concisely. so i bounced around a bunch of different public radio stations. i worked in minnesota.

monogol owe has been building ties with japan calling it mongol mongolia's third neighbor. supermarket sales across japan dropped again in july. it marks a fourth straight month of declines since the consumption tax went up in april. officials at the japan change stores association say sales at major supermarkets nationwide last month were down 2.1% from a year earlier. that's based on existing stores. and excludes new openings and closures. sales of summer items were sluggish. association officials say sales in august have also been affected by stormy weather. but day say the impact of the sales tax hike is weakening. they are hoping to see a recovery in consumption from september. more headlines for you in business next hour. here's another check on markts. >>> a japanese wrestler turned politician is grappling with some matters of diplomacy. antonio inoke has tried in different ways to improve ties between japan and north korea. he and members of a sports organization will hold an international pro-wrestling festival later this month. inoke sits in the upper house of the

. >>> chinese military officials are leading multinational antiterrorism drills in inner mongolia. troops from russia and three central asian countries are taking part. it's organized by the shanghai cooperation organization. more than 7,000 soldiers are participating in the exercise, the biggest scale of its kind. china's state-run xinhua news agency quoted the deputy chief of the people's liberation army as saying the drill is focusing on the troops' coordinated ability to fight terrorism. this is in light of the fighting between minority uighur residents n the military in the shinzan uighur autonomous region. chinese leaders want to put pressure on uighur leaders by involving neighboring countries. they call it cross-border terrorist attacks. >>> an american journalist is enjoying freedom for the first time in nearly two years. islamist militants in syria released a peter theo curtis. but a japanese man being held by a different group there remains in captivity. and separately, the investigation into the beheading of another american hostage is moving forward. british authoritie

two of mongolia's tanks break down. this rounds to the delight of many in the stands is won convincingly by russia. armenia is second. the competition tank here is a standard t-72b. it's being used by all of the teams except for the chinese who have brought their own tank and if you believe some of the more disgruntled rumors around here, maybe this one. such is dismissed by the winning crew who says their victory is just down to them being better. >> the tanks are the same but the drivers have great skills and they show better performance. it's about experience and skill, shows what russia can do and we don't give up. >> reporter: dozens of countries around the world still use tanks made by russia during the cold war. this is a high-octane way for russia to prove its hardware still competes. rory challenge, al jazeera, russia. >> first in history to rendezvous with a comet. alin baba reports. >> for the first time ever a spacecraft has caught up with a comet. thanks to the european space agency, a probe called rosetta

modern sports medicine, the diet, you know, generally considered of mutton, which i've had a lot of in mongolia now that i think about it and raw beefsteak. one guy's favorite was greasy eel broth. i asked allison if she would try to make this and she said no. and also they thought champagne was a stimulant. that would help them. so they were drunk and dehydrated. suffering from sleep deprivation. you get tunnel vision, actually, when you don't have enough sleep. so later in the race they would take chalk dust and mark a line in the middle of the track so they could stay on that line. and often competitors would collapse. they would just -- their bodies just could not endure what they were asking their bodies to do. and at the end of a race, often and dan o'leary was one. he would be so utterly exhausted he was unable to walk they would carry him back to the hotel. westin he was usually in good shape. in fact races would end saturday night and he went to church the next morning. it affected different racers in different ways. the sport also opened doors for women and african-americans in ways t

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today it is on the border of russia and mongolia and there is little there. there is crumbling monuments but they have probably been torn down now. very little there. it is remote. it is dusty. but in the 18th century this was an important place. by the terms of a 1727 treaty, trade between the russian and chinese empires had to pass through this tiny little town. and china had an appetite for furs met first with high valuable sable and they made their way to the eastern coast and crossed over the baring straight and discovered the illusion islands. they found sea otters there as well. these beautiful animals you see here. they referred to these animals as soft gold because their pelts were so valuable and in demand by the royalty in the chinese court. they have the densest furs over any animal. two times that of a seal fur and 18 times that of your pet dog. by cohearsing the people, they slaughtered the beautiful animals by the tens of thousands and shipped them across the pacific ocean to the eastern edge of siberia and went up the river to the lake and eve

two of mongolia's tanks break down. this round to the delight to many in the stand is won convincingly by russia. armenia is second. the competition tank is a standard tank being used by all of the teams except for the chinese who have their own tank. and if you believe more of the disgruntled rumors, maybe the russians are using a beefed up version like this one. such tittle tattle is dismissed by the winning grew. >> the tanks are the same but the drivers have great skills and show better performance. it shows what russia can do that we don't give up. >> reporter: dozens of countries around the world still use tanks made during the cold war, and with talk of a new cold war gaining traction this is a high octane way for russia to prove it's hardware still competes. al jazeera, moscow. >> russian hackers may have stolen 1.2 billion user names and passwords, perhaps the biggest ever internet security breach. over 500 million e-mail addresses, specializing in discovering hacks. the stolen information came from 420,000 web

video released by china's state run broadcaster showed a chinese drone hitting targets in mongolia. these the first time china has ever released video of drone strikes being carried out. 7,000 military personnel are involved including 900 russians. >>> ebola has the upper hand. that's what the head of the cdc had to say as he visits west africa this week. but the top u.s. health official did express optimism that the outbreak there can be contained. in liberia the doctor given the last known doses of the experimental drug smap has died. that's the same drug the two americans took. they recovered from the virus. it's unclear if they were curedly the drug. in march the ebola outbreak killed more than 1400 people. >>> a jewish community center in mumbai, india, attacked by muslim extremists back in 2008 is set to reopen. ten gunman from a mack stan-based militant group stormed hotel and city landmarks for three days there. 166 people were killed. the center has now been fully renovated and will be blessed at a special gathering of 25 rabbis from across asia. >>> scotland is three weeks

it is today on the border between russia and mongolia and there's very little there. there some crumbling monuments to liv live in. as if i've been torn down by now from russian orthodox churches, very little there. it's remote, dusty, but in 18th century this was an extraordinarily important place. by the terms of a 1727 treaty trade between the russian and chinese empire, had to pass through this tiny little town. and china had an insatiable appetite for first. by the mid seven hundreds russian trappers headhunter that most of severe intimate away to the eastern coast of siberia and then crossed over the bering strait in the 1730s and early 17 '40s and discovered, reached the aleutian islands. that they also found sea otters. beautiful animals that you see here, and they referred to them as soft gold because their pelts were so valuable, in demand by royalty in the chinese court. sea otters possess the densest fur of any mammal. 18 times that of your pet dog. so by coercing the hunters, the native people, they slaughtered these beautiful animals by the tens of thous

. >> stahl: it's surreal and it's everywhere, like the city of ordos in mongolia-- built for a million people who didn't show up. and no, you're not in england. you're in thames town, a development near shanghai built like an english village. >> tulloch: and it was finished, i think, around five or six years ago. and it must have cost close to a billion u.s. dollars. and you'll see, it's still standing there empty. >> stahl: well, i've heard that there is some industry there or some business, one business there. >> tulloch: marriage. >> stahl: wedding pictures! and what's more uplifting than a wedding, or ten? you can see these empty developments on the edge of almost every city in china. what about the idea that china is urbanizing? people are flooding into cities or want to, anyway, by the hundreds of millions. and that this really is a smart move-- build the housing to accommodate the urbanization process. >> tulloch: well, so, people are being moved into the cities. but that doesn't necessarily mean that they can afford these apartments which, you know, cost u.s. $100,000 or whatev

but, you know, they're in higher risk parts of the world, mongolia, guinea, for example, that's where some of their large scale world class emerging minds are located. of course, there are higher risks associated with operating in those jurisdictions. the other thing, of course, is rio is hugely leveraged iron ore, about 80% of their earnings are generated iron ore whereas with bhp, it's less than 50%. it leaves the company somewhat exposed. when the iron ore price does come off, as most of us expect it will, one of the other commodities that rio is going to focus on. i think that's why it's particularly encouraging to see the strong performance in aluminum and copper. >> gavin, we're going to have to leave it here. thank you so much for your time. >>> and still to come on the show, the ad that hits the spot. the parking spot, that is. we're joined by the founder of quite a different type of parking aid. that's coming up next. >>> it's time to address one of motorist's biggest headaches, finding a parking spot. an average drivers waits 106 days of their lives searching for that spot.

i know there was an enormous project that first solar was trying to do in mongolia, one of the biggest ever in the region that was under china. it fell through. i'm not sure why but i hope non-tariff barriers don't become a factor inhibiting u.s. companies from operating there. in terms of expanding solar to more roof tops, i'm not the great technical expert these folks are. it's always innovation. i believe that one of the biggest factors of innovation is innovation that happens on the shop floor. manufacturing ties into innovation and brings long-term benefits that you know were going to happen like the intel story. thanks. >> i don't think i have too much to add. i want to make one -- we're closing. i want to add a little bit -- one counter point on the trade issue because i think it is so important and it is so complex, at least in my view. there are a lot of nuances to it. one thing i wanted to say is, we have tracked the solar industry globally for ten years. what happened over the last five years, frankly, i think was more complex than any one market sort of proactively planning

siempre hagamos lo mismo los seres humanos y este es un animal que estÁ en asia central, en china, en mongolia, en rusia. aguanta mucho el frÍo. >> tiene la piel... >> dÉjenme, les cuento una historia. cuando estuve de vacaciones en tailandia visitÉ un templo de tigres. ¿por quÉ? resulta que en tailandia matan a los tigres para hacerlos pomada. ¿por quÉ surgiÓ este templo? porque mataban a las madres y los cachorritos quedaban desamparados y se empezaban a morir. llevan el primer cachorrito a un buda, a un monje, perdÓn. entonces, Él lo salva y le empiezan a llevar mÁs cachorritos. hay mÁs de 100 tigres, que eran cachorritos. ellso estÁn en 1 área natural. ¿por quÉ los tienen? porque los estÁn salvando de los depredadores que los estÁn matando para hacer pomada y tener esos centros los ayuda a que se recreen. >> los monjes van a tener mÁs tigres... >> hoy inicia una etapa. en el estado de missouri, sabemos que la persona puede ser detenida bajo posibles causas pero el futuro del oficial estÁ en las manos de un jurado. ¿quÉ representa esto? >> estÁ usado para la investiga