00:00Tropical Storm Maria is raging in Northern Japan.
00:04And the media tycoon Jimmy Lai and pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong
00:12who were also affected by the storm were sued by the court.
00:16Joy Salamatin is in the center of the news.
00:22Tropical Storm Maria is raging in the northern part of Japan.
00:26The storm landfalled in Ofunato City, Iwate Prefecture.
00:30According to the Japan Meteorological Agency,
00:33the rain was up to 481.5 mm in the last 48 hours in the town of Otsuchi.
00:42For now, the storm is only in the Tropical Depression category,
00:46but it is expected to bring strong rains as it reaches the Sea of Japan.
00:53The court in Hong Kong sued the media tycoon Jimmy Lai and 6 other pro-democracy campaigners
01:03for the case of unauthorized assembly in 2019.
01:08Lai and 6 others were found guilty of organizing and organizing an unauthorized assembly
01:16in August 2019 in support of the pro-democracy protest.
01:22Lai has been in solitary confinement since December 2020
01:27and is now facing a National Security Trial.
01:31The sentence is up to 5 years after he was convicted
01:36for violating the lease contract for his former residence.
01:41In the first 6 months of 2024,
01:44the highest number of motorbikers killed in Sao Paulo, Brazil,
01:51was estimated to be 7 because of motorbike accidents every day in Sao Paulo, Brazil,
01:57where in the past decade,
02:00up to 20,000 people have died from motorcycle accidents.
02:05Health and traffic experts have found that
02:08the rapid expansion of food delivery apps is the cause of the deaths of motorbikers.
02:14A food delivery app in Brazil has found
02:18that there is no evidence to support the expansion of food delivery services
02:23in the number of people who die from motorcycle accidents.
02:28Joyce Salamatin for Pambansang TV in Bagong, Philippines.
