Continue a phased reopening of the economy. That includes the governments signature Goto Travel Campaign which aims to boost the struggling tourism sector. Starting wednesday, domestic travelers can apply for discounts on accommodation and transportation, but tokyo with its rising cases wont be eligible. That suddeden explosion caught people off guard and raised concerns about cancellation fees. Now the government says both touriststs and bususinesses wil compensated. Translator we realize we did not properly inform people, so we decided that tourists wont be required to pay them. The government is now reevaluating plans to further ease restrictions on big events. The minister in charge of japans Coronavirus Response sasays a committee will hear fr experts on wednesday about an idea to lift a 5,000person attendance limit. European union leader have hashed out an agreement over a landmark coronavirus recovery fund. They reached a breakthrough on the 750 billion n euro package after days of heated debate. This is a good deal. This is a strong deal. And most importantly, this is the right deal for europe right now. We have a lot of work ahead of us, but tonight is a big step forward towards recovery. Politicians worked through the night on monday. The fund aims to get the regions economies back on their feet in the wake of the pandemic. Member nations had been wrangling over how much of the fund should be grants. Some northern countries like the netherlands and austria wanted replace them with loans. Paving the way to a deal, the European Councils president on monday suggested cutting grants to 390 billion euros from 500 billion. The talks were originally due to end on saturday. Scientists have been working around the clock to develop a coronanavirus vaccine. Now Oxford University researchers say theyve induced immumune responses in early sta human Clinical Trials. The Teams Development is being touted as a potential break through. But an expert in Vaccine Research at Tokyo University is taking a cautiously optimistic approach warning speed may come with risk. Nhk worlds know she hara has more on this. The results that this may be workingg is because i its indug an antibody responsnse which ma provide protection agagainst infection. Its about risk and benefit. We think its s still beneficia to speed up the vaccine trials. However, we are skipping a lot of important steps including animal experiment for safety and efficacies. Reporter there are currently 23 vaccines in Clinical Trials across the world. In japan researchers launched the countrys first Clinical Trial last month. The doctor acknowledges that japan is feeling the impact of years of budget shortages but hopes the country will soon catch up because the stakes are too high too relyy on the good will of other countries. Having no vaccicine domestically means theres no way to protect the people in the country. So having a safe a a effectitiv vaccine domesticacally availabl is critical for, i should say public counts but defense for human counts. Reporter with so much focus on developing a vaccine to fight the virus, dr. Ishi sayss we shouldnt mistake mitigation n r eradication and ththat a vaccic wont be a silver bullllet. If youou think of this influenza vaccine, would you exexpect it is sufficient toer d cat influeuenza . It has never happened. So the hope is to have a vaccine but we shouldnt hope to eradicate disease by vaccine. Reporter it may not be the good news people hoped to hear. Dr. Ishii says the important thing is to continue finding ways to control the virus. Nochi haruka, nhk world. New yorkers are looked forward to the final phase of reopening. That day has come and theyre free to roam outdoors in some public spaces, but they still cant do many of the things their city is known for. Nhk worlds Catherine Kobayashi reports. Reporter the kitchen is open at this restauran near times uauare a thehe drinks are flowing, but cusmerstill arent welcome inside. Restaurants want people and the people want to go to restaurants, so everybody is doing what theyre supposed to. Reporter new yorkers were allowed last month to dine again at restaurants outdoors. This week they hoped to get a table inside and to visit museums, malls and movie theatersrs, but those activitie have been postponed. This is the city that never sleeps. We hope we can go back to our normal ways. One day at a time. Reporter this final phase of reopening comes with some caveats. Zoos and gardens can open, but only at a third of capacity. Professional sports can start up again, but without fans. Producers can film movies and tv shows, though the streets dont have their usual crowowds. Visitors dont evenn have to lin upup at the empire ststate buil. Whenn we agagreed too let th part of our life come back, it was not meant to be business as usual. It was meant to be with the understanding we all gain the hard way. Reporter the mayor and others have seen the surge of infections that followed the reopening of southern and western states and they fear scenes like this in new york last week could force them to turn back the clock. We cannot allow those congregations to continue. If it happens, ill tell you whats going to happen. Were going to have to roll back the opening plan. Reporter the governor says he feels like hes standing on a beach and can see a second wave building in the distance, but he says this wave would be manmade. Catherine kobayashi, nhk world, new york. Well, the coronavirus continues to dominate headlines, the government of pakistan is resuming its campaign to stamp out another highly infectious disease, polio. It comes after a fourmonth hiatus due to the pandemic. Workers wear masks and sanitize their hands as they went doortodoor. Translator ive been worried about my child getting polio when vaccinations were halted three or four months. The resumption will help protect children. Young children are susceptible to the crippling disease which can leave them partly paralyzed. There have been 60 infections reported in the country so far this year. Thats up from the same period last year. The government is hoping to immunize about 800,000 people age 5 or younger. But the campaign faceses teats from islamic extremists as well as the coronavirus. The World Health Organization aims to eliminate polio worldwide. Pakistan is one of the last countries still reporting infections. The defense chiefs of south korea and the United States have agreed to continue efforts to schedule this summers joint military exercises. The drills are being complicated by the coronavirus. South korea announced on tuesday that defense minister spoke on the phone with u. S. D defense secretary mark esper. They reaffirmed their partnership in dealing with north korea. Pyongyang has been strongly opposed to joint drills by the u. S. And south korea. The spring joint exercises were called off due to the pandemic. South korean media reports say the summertime drill will still go on but will be downsized. Meanwhile a u. S. Newspaper has reported that president Donald Trumps administration is considering reducing the u. S. Troop strength in south korea. The seoul said no discussions on the matter took place during the phone call, nor has it been discussed in the past. International fallout from china passing the new Hong Kong National security law continues. The British Government says its suspending an expedition treaty with its former colony and it will take immediate effect. We would not consider reactivating those arrangements unless and until there are clear and robust safeguards which are able to prevent expedition from it being misused under the new National Security legislation. Australia and canada have already taken similar steps. The u. K. Announcement floegs the decision to remove products made by chinese telecon msk ha way from his 5g networks by 2027. The government is also working on giving people in hong kong who have a British National ovoverseas passport a path to st ship. China is criticizing the moves and urged the uk to avoid further damaging bilateral relations. Translator britains measures on hong kong are wrong and significantly interfere with chinas internal affairs. We strongly condemn them. The u. S. Government is also boosting pressure on china over its treatment of muslim minorities. Its added 11 chinese entities to an economic blacklist, saying theyre involved in human rights abuses against ethnic uighurs. The department of commerce says they include auto parts manufacturer ktk group and a Biometric Research institute. Around a million uyghurs are believed to have been detained in china over the past few years. The Department Says the targeted companies are linked to practices like forced labor and the involuntary collection of biometric data. The move means they will be virtually banned from doing busineness with u. S. Firirms. Secretary of commerce, wilbur ross, says that will keep American Goods and technology from being used in what he calls an offensive against defenseless muslims. Before mondays announcement, the department had already blacklisted 37 chinese businesses and organizations since last october. The Trump Administration has been taking a harder line against beijing on a range of issues, including the pandemic, hong canning congress and tech giant huawei. Beijings treatment of uighurs is also drawing criticism from other world powers. On sunday, the uks secretary said it is clear egregious human rights abuses are going on. Beijing has defended the measures as preventing terrorism. Saudi arabias staterun media has reported that king salman bin abdulazeez has been hospitalized for tests due to inflammation of the gallbladder. The of fishl News Agency Says the 84yearold monarch was admitted to a hospital in riyadh on monday. The king has reportedly received phone calls from the rulers of neighboring jordan and bahrain inquiring after his health. A planned visit by iraqs Prime Minister has been postponed, and the hospitalization is affecting diplomatic schedules. King salman has named Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman as his successor and has been concentrating power in his hands. He is the strongest ally of the crown prince, who is trying to implement an ambmbitious reform plan to transition the kingdom away from its dependence on oil. The kings health is a focus of attention, since saudi arabia is home to the two holiest cities for muslims, and because of the countrys ability to influence markets. The kingdom is one of the worlds leading producers of crude oil. Residents of parts of china are dealing with flooding and land sides due to incessant heavy seasonal rain. Our meteorologist sayaka mori joins us with the forecast. Hello there. China has been experiencing one of the worst floods in decades. Weve been looking at heavy rainfall, and more rain is on the way. To show how people arere dealin with the flfloods, take a lookk this video from ananwe provinin. Some w water gates are open to discharge excess water. Meanwhwhile sanandbags havave b placed along rivers to avoid further flooding. About 1500 rescuers have been sent to Anhui Province to help control floods. Take a look at this weather map. As you can see, the rainy season front is over the basin, but it will likely move towards the north. Areas north of the river basin will see the heaviest rainfall this week. Flooding and landslides will is be a verery highh concern. The s same strong days have buffeted many places of south korea and northwewestern japan. Today is supposed to be the end of the rainy season for tokyo, but we saw gloomy skies once again and many people wondering when the rainy season will end in tokyo. As you can see, gloomy conditions will continue at least into saturday in tokyo. Rainy weather on wednesday, the motion day and also the supports day, but then sunday will be safe. It could be the end of the rainy season. Osaka will continue to see wet weather into next week. Amami saw wet weather on sunday. Watch out for heat stroke. Meanwhile we have a low and seasonal frontal system affecting many places of japan at this moment. About prefectures are under thunderstorm warnings. Well continue to see unstable weather conditions. Thunderstorms, strong winds and heavy rain could batter many places of the country at least into the weekend. Heat is building across the northeastern United States. On monday baltimore saw a high of 37. 8 degrees. We saw the same number on sunday as well. The heat will continue to grip the northeast. Temperatures in washington, d. C. 36 on tuesday and wednesday thats five Degrees Higher than normal. Thunderstorms are popping up in many places of the northeast. Thats it for me. Stay safe. And one last story. Japans spacecraft may be heading back to space once it completes its Current Mission to explore an astroid and bring back samples. It was launched in 2014 and rehed bug gu four years later. Its scheduled to approach earth containing sanded rock samples from the astroid. The Japan Aerospace exploratiti agency says its planning to send the probe on anonother tenyear missision to explore o of two aststroids under consideration. The agegency expects the astrtrs inner structure to be different from bu gu which consists mostly of rorocks. The new mission would be completed a about 15 years afte hyabusa 2s launch from earth. In addition to exploring the astroid, Agency Officials say theyll be able to collect data on the effects of a longterm mission on equipment. The agency plans to decide on the final details of the new mission by september. And thats all for this edition of nhk newsline. Im Yoshi Ogasawara in tokyo. Thanks for watching and well have more for you soon. Department stores in japan had another top month in june. Sales were down substantially from a year earlier. But the drop wasnt anything like what we saw in april and may. The late of the figures from the Japan DepartmentStores Association show sales at 203 outlets totaling about 3. 6 billion. Thats down 19 from june of last year, but it could be viewed adds something of a recovery from the 65 drop in may. Early numbers for july suggest things are sliding again. Sales at 41 major outlets in the first half of the month was 25 lower than in the previous year. The association blamed an increase in the number of coronavirus cases in tokyo and the kansai region as well as record rainfall at the start of the month. This is newsline biz. Im gene otani. Shipments of large Home Appliances locally also rose in june for the first time in nine months. That was largely due to government cash handouts to all citizens to cope with the coronavirus pandemic. An Industry Association says domestic shipments of such products are passed 300 billion yen or 2. 9 billion. Thats up 5. 8 from the year earlier. Its the first time in 23 years that monthly shipments topped 300 billion yen. Wash machines rose by more than 4 . The Industry Group says the governments cash subsidy of about 930 per person played a major role. It says customer traffic at Home Appliance stores also picked up after the nationwide state of emergency was lifted in late may. The inflation rate here was flat in june from a yearr earlieier, but thatt was betterthanexpected as Consumer Prices had been falling in the previous two months. The internal Affairs Ministry says the leading gauge of inflation or the Consumer Price index was unchanged from last year. Thats excluding fresh food. The index stopped declining as Energy Prices stabilized with the recent uptick in crude oil prices. Prices for hotels and other accommodations dropped. Demand has plunged as the number of tourists has dried up. Meanwhile, food prices rose 1. 2 . Those for households, durable goods such as appliances were also up. Japan airlines is considering a freeze on hiring University Graduates and other next spring as the coronavirus pandemic continues to keep many of its flights suspended. Jals executive president noted that hiring is currently on hold except for certain positions like pilots. He said the freeze could be extended to the hiring period before the next fiscal year. Translalator we see recover of demand for domestic air travel to take a year and for internatioional routes, the recovery could take thrhree to four years, or it may not fully return to the prepandemic level. We have to prepare for a long road to recovery. Still akasaka said jal will be stable for the time being having secured 4. 7 billion through borrowing and other means. He says the carrier plans to cut costs. Many people in china are reluctant to go out and open their wallets as fears over the virus persist. Sluggish Consumer Spending is dragging on the recovery. Beijing is making a big bet on future Infrastructure Projects to put its economy back on track. Reporter the great wall of china is one of the countrys most popular tourist spots. Since the coronavirus hit earlier this year, the World Heritage site has been unusually empty. This small hotel with expansive views of the wall used to draw throngs of tourists, but as news of the virus came in late january, cancellations poured in. Business was back to normal in mid may, but then an outbreak hit the area and the hotel had to shut it doorts once again. Translator we have staff to take care of a and every momente are losing money. The situation puts us under a tremendous amount of pressure. In a bid to offset the impacts of the pandemic, the Chinese Government launched a socalled new infrastructure initiative. Translator we will push the construction of a new infrastructure to promote industrial upgrades. Reporter the nation is expected to pull more than a trillion dollars into areas that beijijing leaveves hold the key future economic growth. These include 5g and ai. As part of the effort, officials want to make everything from smart phones to cars and factories connected to highspeed networor. The undertaking means a big role for Chinese Telecom giant hua i huawei. In april the firm brought 5g connectivity to mt. Everest. The move is part of chinas base station blitz. There are now more than 250,000 base station i in the country. Officials aim to have more than double that number by years end. To help meet the challenge, huawei is training everyone from salespeople to researchers to install the equipment. Translator im in charge of customer relations, so i never thought id have to train for this. Its so hot and theres a lot to do. Its quite tough. Reporter the company aims to make all of its employees engaged in pushing the technology on the back of chinas new infrastructure initiative. China recognized the value of ai iot, cloud and huawei specifically 5g. So china has been putting a lot of money into this area. We can achieve a better result. Reporter but the plan is facing some headwinds. The u. S. Has moved to cut off huawei from the global chip supply and the uk recently band wireless carriers from buying its 5g equipment. With beijing pinning hopes on the e economymy on buildining o new infrastructure, the stakes for success are higher than ever. Lets have a look at the markets. For the newsline biz team in tokyo. Im genene otani. Thanks v very hello, thanks for joining us on france 2 24. It took more than 90 hours of talks, but eu leaders finally struck a deal on the budget and how much to spend on helping Member States recover from the coronavirus pandemic. The agreement includes 750 billion euros in grants and loans, all that borrowed by the european commission. The main contention is how much to spend on grants. The deal now needs to be approveded by the european parliament