VOA [Voice of America] Africa : August 28, 2019 11:00AM-12:00PM EDT

Closed captions transcript: 00:00:00 Well big dollars Undeterred he representing local government says there is 00:00:04 a gag order but he does confirm that there are active settlement discussions 00:00:08 underway word of the talks comes 00:00:11 a couple of months before the start of the 1st federal trial in Cleveland I have to 00:00:15 McGuire Syrian Kurdish fighters say they have begun withdrawing from areas along 00:00:19 the Syria Turkey border as part of an agreement between the U.S. 00:00:23 And Ankara the people's protection units the main force within the U.S. 00:00:27 Backed Syrian democratic forces claims its pullout is the 1st step toward 00:00:31 implementing its part of a deal to establish 00:00:34 a safe zone in northeast Syria there is word today that Japan's top auto maker 00:00:39 Toyota and smaller rival Suzuki are partnering in the development of self driving 00:00:44 car technology we get a report from A.P. 00:00:46 Correspondent Charles dividends also manufacturers' a facing 00:00:50 a closely shift toward the use of Alt-A Fishel intelligence the Internet and other 00:00:55 technologies with partnerships one way to share the big costs under the new deal 00:01:01 Toyota will take a full point 9 percent stake in Suzuki 00:01:05 a just over $900000000.00 and Suzuki will make 00:01:09 a full 150000000 investment in Toyota the 2 groups say in 00:01:13 a statement the sector is currently experiencing 00:01:15 a turning point unprecedented in both scope and scale I'm shells of this month the 00:01:21 United States is calling for calm on all sides in Hong Kong as protests have taken 00:01:25 a violent turn there in recent days on khan please fired volleys of tear gas to 00:01:30 break up anti-government protests on Saturday as pro-democracy activists threw 00:01:34 petrol bombs and bricks a senior State Department official tells V.O.A. 00:01:38 Quote We can't sit quiet for more violence once again our top story this hour 00:01:44 British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he will temporarily shut down Parliament 00:01:48 in mid October for 00:01:49 a month dramatically cutting down the time opponents have to make their case 00:01:53 against 00:01:54 a no deal British departure from the European Union more news at the only news dot 00:01:58 com Gene Randall V.O.A. 00:02:00 News. 00:02:18 This is border crossings radio's number one were placed our and now your host 00:02:25 Larry London Hi there welcome to our show border crossings is with you and we have 00:02:30 requests and dedications coming up on today's program and if you are listening 00:02:35 around the world you can always call 202-619-2007 extension 72 make your request 00:02:42 and you can also e-mail border crossings at V O A G O V L E Golding's back in the 00:02:48 studio she's working on 00:02:49 a new album she just put out some new music She's also planning her wedding to 00:02:53 a very wealthy British socialite Casper toppling and in the meantime we've got 00:02:58 a request to play for Bangladesh for bad Shaquille and this is one of the early 00:03:04 Golding's earlier hits this is called Love me like you do right here on border 00:03:08 crossings. And then in the can. 00:03:15 You think you can change Danielle any. 00:03:23 Given new. Names it's. Still it's. 00:03:31 Is 00:03:31 a. Reason. To. Be 00:03:38 taking it seriously. He didn't seem to. 00:03:52 Be too. Keen to. Keep. 00:04:00 In. Touch to turn. 00:04:08 To Lorraine for. 00:04:16 That. Is the. 00:04:24 Only. 00:05:28 Lead. 00:06:48 To the. To 00:06:56 its border crossings illegally who will be celebrating her 33rd birthday coming up 00:07:01 in December she's also got some big plans at the end of September she will be in 00:07:06 Rio de Janeiro for the annual Rock in Rio music festival and not only that 00:07:13 a couple of weeks ago she was in Italy in Porto servo Italy and she was there as 00:07:19 one of the UNICEF ambassadors for their big summer gala which just took place in 00:07:24 Italy and so she's been keeping herself very very busy Ellie Golding and love me 00:07:29 like you do here on border crossings for Ahmed Chiquito from Bangladesh we are 00:07:34 heard in Bangladesh on Bangalore Radio 95.2 F.M. 00:07:39 And this is our segment for our friends in Bangladesh that we broadcast every week 00:07:44 and we give away T. 00:07:46 Shirts for all the folks who get 00:07:48 a request played on Bangalore radio so if you are one of those who does hear your 00:07:52 name called and your requests played please contact. And Doc and they'll be happy 00:07:58 to tell you how you can come by the studio and pick up your T. 00:08:02 Shirt just for listening I want to say hi to Cleatus Clarks who is tuned in today 00:08:07 and just sent 00:08:08 a shout out on our Facebook page kid Black is with US current account of Paul from 00:08:12 India Sammy. Said hello and. 00:08:20 Oh go Molly arrestee is tuned in. Salama wit work now 00:08:27 barrack at ng to work he knocked a man 00:08:29 a Ernie. Emerson. 00:08:36 Clement OCO these are just some of the names that are difficult to pronounce but 00:08:41 I'm trying my best Let's see Clippard Mulayam of that's an easier one Zahara Dean 00:08:46 Kaka. Lewis lots. Of dual to Ray 00:08:53 thank you all for going to facebook dot com slash V.O.A. 00:08:56 Larry London and 00:08:58 a shout out to you and your family and your friends and coworkers classmates I 00:09:02 think we covered it all coming up next 00:09:04 a request from an artist who goes by little Dickie and this is 00:09:09 a request from Joni SA in Bangladesh and the song is called Earth on border 00:09:14 crossing. 00:10:13 In. 00:10:39 Just feed them and just some of. 00:10:46 Them can go. Up and down. Like 00:10:52 a jug in. The next no. 00:11:02 Thank you. Spirit. 00:11:12 And sleep all the time so. 00:11:20 I. 6 6 00:11:55 don't know. Give each other names. 00:12:06 We don't know how to. Tag on ourselves but let's all just chill Well we bell. 00:12:13 I look at. The ballot. 00:12:23 Oh. 00:12:52 It was 00:12:52 a. 6 00:13:13 6 letter. And saying I'm missing same. Basic. 00:14:12 Common sense would tell. And saying that was. Said to have been sort of 00:14:18 a safe. One 00:14:33 and sees it as. You need 00:14:36 a key to. Read it. But 00:14:49 I. 00:14:59 Still think. That. 00:15:08 The 2nd. Most he's. Saying that was. 00:15:17 Set up in service 00:15:18 a. 3 00:15:38 day. 00:16:07 Visit to see. 00:16:32 But across. That is a hit from this past year by D.J. 00:16:38 Snake which includes Diplo and features Selena Gomez and and Carty be here 00:16:45 on border crossing Selena Gomez finishing up 00:16:47 a new album and she is getting to release the new album very very soon we're 00:16:52 excited about that car to be was on stage on Monday night at the M.T.V. 00:16:58 Video Music Awards being her car to be esque self and I can't understand half of 00:17:04 what she says I just it's very funny and it cardie be as one of those artists you 00:17:09 either love or hate or she either annoys you or you kind of get it you know 00:17:16 I mean that's just the way she rolls but she did get a M.T.V. 00:17:20 Video Music Award Moon Man that's the name of the awards they hand out the moon men 00:17:25 and she got it for best hip hop for her song money so congratulations to party be 00:17:32 on that big win on Monday night and I know Diplo has announced that he's got 00:17:37 a new record label he's putting out his 1st new product in September but the new 00:17:41 label is called higher ground and it will be house music and speaking of well 1st 00:17:47 of all the song is 00:17:48 a request for Mohamed Mahmoud so hog from Bangladesh so thank you for listening to 00:17:53 border crossings in Bangladesh now speaking of the Video Music Awards show I'm 00:17:58 going to quickly run through some of the biggest winners of the night Taylor Swift 00:18:02 was clearly very biggest winner of the night she got the video of the year and 00:18:06 there was no Kanye West anywhere to take the mike out of her hand for you need to 00:18:09 calm down and she used the platform to get. Nicol and talk about equal rights 00:18:16 for women and for the community of which she's very supportive of and so 00:18:23 she said that you know she was very reluctant to get out and speak about her 00:18:26 political views because number of years ago 10 years or so or more. The Dixie 00:18:32 Chicks spoke out about President Bush at the time and they took 00:18:35 a lot of heat for it a lot of people boycotted their music and there was just 00:18:39 a lot of problems so Taylor was reluctant to do that she said no now's the time I 00:18:44 got to speak out enough is enough so she using her fame to do that she got video of 00:18:49 the year she got 3 awards on the night which tied some other big names artist of 00:18:54 the year went to ariana grande Day So congratulations to ariana grande 00:18:59 a song of the year little Naz X. 00:19:02 Old Town Road No surprise there so congratulations on that Best New Artist big 00:19:08 category 00:19:09 a lot of big names the best new artist was Billie Eilish And so she beat out Lizza 00:19:15 a little Naz X. 00:19:17 And some others but Billie Eilish won 3 awards as detail are swift and ariana 00:19:22 grande 00:19:22 a best collaboration Shawn Mendez communicable yo send your return the 2 of them 00:19:27 shared 00:19:28 a song and almost This is what their people are talking about who watch this it was 00:19:34 the kiss that didn't happen because they sang the song together and they looked 00:19:39 like they had some hot can 00:19:40 a chemistry going on and they were very very close but they didn't. 00:19:47 They were right there but they didn't kind of like when your parents walk in on you 00:19:52 when you're the girl that's kind of what happened they were so close and decided 00:19:56 now not now not here to push Artist Of The Year Bailey Eilish best pop the 00:20:02 Jonas Brothers for sucker a Best R. And B. 00:20:06 Was nor Mani for waves so congratulations to her she beat out childish gambino at 00:20:11 least she keys an L M A. Best K. Pop B.T.S. With Paul Z. 00:20:16 For boy with love best Latin Rosalia and J. Ballad in an L. 00:20:22 Green Show with cool and Tura So that was 00:20:26 a big theme of the night I watched the award show and it was 00:20:29 a lot of Latin music and 00:20:31 a lot of talk about people from other cultures coming to America which is bad in 00:20:34 the headlines 00:20:35 a lot lately here in the United States best dance category chain smokers B.B. 00:20:39 Rex I call you mine Best Rock went to panic at the disco for high hopes and best 00:20:45 video for good was you need to calm down Taylor Swift so congratulations to all the 00:20:50 winners and all the nominees and you know I'm sure they'll enjoy all of their fame 00:20:56 while it continues this is border crossings where we continue with requests and 00:21:01 dedications and this next song is from Justin Bieber who has announced 00:21:06 a date I believe that date was September 6th he sent out 00:21:10 a whole the date card to his friends save the date card so believe it or not 00:21:15 September 6th in the Carolinas I think North Carolina that's where he's planning to 00:21:19 get married in 00:21:20 a ceremony to Haley Baldwin Bieber so the suspense is nearing an end as far as 00:21:26 their actual wedding ceremony here's Justin Bieber for Safad Ahmed the radio 00:21:32 $95.00 and it's 00:21:34 a love me. So 00:21:47 this. Is the way that floated exit poll. 00:21:55 From. 00:22:12 Gallup. Poll 00:22:18 I'm told. Can. 00:22:28 Play politically. 00:22:37 Legislation. 00:22:45 To sell me. 00:22:53 A. 00:23:14 Little. 00:23:23 Give. Him. A little. 00:23:31 Play 00:23:32 a live. Game. 00:23:45 Illo. 00:24:41 Plenty. 00:25:15 Of. 00:25:34 Money. 00:25:48 Beside me. And. Duffy always hate. 00:25:57 Saying something. And I know you. 00:26:05 Think you can you know thank you thank you Bill you know. You know they get. 00:26:12 It. Right. 00:26:20 Because I was and I knew. 00:26:32 Ways. 00:26:54 Small you know know that Lizzie you. 00:27:06 Know. 00:27:19 When he. Would. 00:27:28 See you. 00:27:43 Border crossings and requests from Saifullah East. In Bangladesh on 95.2 F.M. 00:27:50 . Just got 00:27:52 a teacher by getting that Drake song played here on our show in my feelings from 00:27:57 2018 and Drake has been 00:28:01 a busy boy not only was he on tour recently but he's also been producing T.V. 00:28:06 Shows and video shows for example H.B.O. 00:28:09 He produced 00:28:10 a show called euphoria which did very well he started off as an actor you may 00:28:14 recall on the grassy the next generation and now he's got 00:28:18 a new video show Netflix coming out it's called Top Boy and the 00:28:25 theme of the show is the London drug scene he talks about it being rampant and lot 00:28:30 of people don't talk about it they talk about the drugs that are going on in 00:28:34 Compton or in New York but they don't talk about the drug world in London which is 00:28:41 pretty intense so that's what the show is all about at such 00:28:44 a boy Netflix if you're 00:28:46 a person who subscribes to Netflix now in my feelings the song we just heard from 00:28:50 Drake by request Recife will Islam that song set 00:28:53 a single week streaming record in 2018 at 00:28:58 116200000 streams and that record sat for 00:29:05 about a year until Old Town Road has just surpassed that record for 00:29:10 a single week however Old Town Road is not the most stream song of the summer. I'm 00:29:16 surprised I'm looking at this global streams it's number 4 on the top 10 list of 00:29:22 streaming songs number 10 most Dream Song post Malone sunflower number 9 post 00:29:28 Malone goodbye is number 8 Louis CK 00:29:31 a policy and someone you who you loved which we're going to play in just 00:29:36 a bit we've got that song scheduled to play 8th most stream song this summer Darryl 00:29:41 and SEC with the otro Trog Oh Ed Sheeran and colleague Beautiful People Number 5 00:29:45 bad bunny and Taney with. Number 4 as I mentioned Old Town Road number 3 bad guy 00:29:51 Billy Eilish Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber number 2 with I don't care the number one 00:29:57 most Dream Song of this summer is and it's hard to believe this but because it did 00:30:03 your song didn't come out too long ago it said Your Rita John Mendez N N Could be 00:30:08 like 00:30:08 a bale. And that just goes to how popular Sean Mendez has become He has just taken 00:30:15 the scene and that song was streamed 565000000 times 00:30:23 that's how many streams that songs hit to get to number one so congratulations to 00:30:27 them all right I want to say hello to Ali M.K. In B. 00:30:30 You Chad Nigeria Ephraim are always with us in Ethiopia talk bait Sali said I 00:30:36 listen to you and gonna but not on 98 point one F.M. 00:30:39 Like most of the people from Ghana listen to you I listen to you on V.O.A. 00:30:43 Togo which is 102.3 F.M. 00:30:46 So it's talk great Sali thank you for tuning in and also heard from Cletus Clark's 00:30:51 and Jacqueline the cello her so thank you all for 00:30:55 a joining border crossings today as we ease through this week on LARRY London if 00:31:00 you want to call in 202-619-2077 that's our number you can e-mail border crossings 00:31:06 at V.O.A. Dot G.O.V.T. You can go to Twitter and tweet to hash tag B.C. V.O.A. 00:31:13 On Instagram it is border crossings V.O.A. 00:31:16 And then there's Facebook dot com slash V.O.A. 00:31:19 Larry London here's 00:31:20 a song request from I have been in Croatia and it's Bon Jovi with it's my life. 00:31:30 FULL the Brule. 00:31:54 It's not. 00:32:10 Little. 00:32:19 Live 00:32:29 live. Live. 00:32:39 Live live. 00:32:46 Live live. 00:33:01 Live live. 00:33:09 Live. 00:33:14 Live 00:33:29 . Live. 00:33:39 Live. 00:33:54 A. Little. 00:34:03 Live. Live. 00:35:06 Oh dear. 00:36:06 What is. 00:36:20 The. Good. 00:36:38 You know. 00:36:46 You. 00:38:39 The Q. 00:38:47 B. 00:39:58 I'm. Curious. 00:40:06 About. 00:41:15 You've got border crossing Solomon to set your request from 5 stars 5 stars 00:41:22 are London's answer to the Jackson 5 because Dad Buster 00:41:29 Pearson put his kids together in 00:41:31 a group and so the group consisted of brothers and sisters Stedman Lorraine 00:41:38 Denise Doris and Delroy Pierson and they call themselves 5 stars they were together 00:41:44 from about 198-3285 then they stopped then they came back in 00:41:52 the late eighty's early ninety's then they stopped and they came back and they 00:41:55 still together still doing some limited engagements they had 00:41:58 a few hits we just heard one for Solomon It's 00:42:02 a song called Love takes over and it was from their 1985 album luxury of life 00:42:09 and 2 years later they won the Brit Award for best British group and here in the 00:42:15 United States we've not heard of them so that's another example of an artist who's 00:42:19 big somewhere but not somewhere else so it's kind of kind of interesting how that 00:42:24 all works 5 stars Love Takes Over Solomon to some 00:42:26 a thank you for your request on border crossings will be given away that video a T. 00:42:30 Shirt in just 00:42:31 a few minutes so hang around your chance to win is coming up today too T. 00:42:35 Shirts because I wasn't here live yesterday to give one away hope you enjoyed 00:42:40 yesterday's special but I wasn't here so today we'll give away 21 from yesterday 00:42:45 one for today I want to say hello to me Kayla and in Moscow listening 00:42:51 Juliet Monda checked in on our Facebook page Mensa. Junior 00:42:59 Tony. KIMANI. Do Thank you all for going to facebook dot com 00:43:05 slash V.O.A. 00:43:06 Larry London today is Edwina. Birthday Edwina Sato giallo who listens to us in 00:43:12 Sierra Leone on 102.7 F.M. 00:43:14 So hello to Edwina and happy birthday to you and thank you for joining us we got 00:43:20 a song from Katy Perry to play for Edwina on her birthday and also Mary Buckman who 00:43:25 is in the mood for some Katy Perry music today. Katy Perry announced that she's got 00:43:30 her 1st concert coming up in India in 7 years she's announced 00:43:36 a concert for November in Mumbai so if you're listening in India and you happen to 00:43:42 be in Mumbai because I know we have listeners in Mumbai Katy Perry is headed your 00:43:46 way something else I just read was an interesting story about Katy Perry's earnings 00:43:52 . Which interestingly enough last year she was number one on the Forbes list of 00:43:58 $28000.00 for income at $83000000.00 and that beat Taylor Swift 00:44:04 $80000000.00 and Beyonce $60000000.00 Don't you feel sorry for them last year this 00:44:11 year Katy Perry she's kind of slacking she's only made $57.00 and 00:44:15 a half 1000000 this year taking it easy and $57.00 and 00:44:19 a half 1000000 gets or only 34th place on the Forbes list of the top money makers 00:44:26 in music so but they have put out the list of the rest of the people so we're 00:44:29 waiting to hear what that's all about but here's your Katy Perry request Mary 00:44:33 Buckman Edwina hope you enjoyed Happy Birthday It's called Never really over. 00:45:45 Thank you sick. 00:45:55 Because I can't even. That even. 00:46:04 Comes. Please. Please. 00:46:13 Please. 00:46:21 Please. 00:46:31 Please. Please. 00:46:43 Please please. Please. 00:46:53 Please. 00:47:03 Please. 00:47:20 Be observed. 00:47:28 This is. 00:47:54 Such 00:47:55 a. High 00:48:20 It's Katy Perry and you're listening to my did Larry land. 00:48:30 On Buddha. Dharma see there's no. 00:48:39 New song. Gordo 00:48:42 a troubling me cruising. On need some. 00:48:50 Somebody that. Somebody. Could see. But it's 00:48:57 new. I gotta say. You know and all the good you know the. 00:49:05 Answer. To. Seeing. Their 00:49:12 mother. And then. I was getting. To 00:49:19 console. All moon on New Moon the song will see there's 00:49:26 no world Sun Tsu. 00:49:43 She. 00:51:13 Told. Border crossings. Who spent 7 weeks at 00:51:20 number one in the U.K. 00:51:22 With that song we just heard someone you loved it's 00:51:24 a request from Eden kill Sonata border crossings and Louis Cataldie is 00:51:31 from Scotland he won the breakthrough Artist Award in 2017 at the Scottish music 00:51:36 awards his new album is called divinely uninspired to 00:51:40 a hellish extent. Could try and find that on the shelves and he did something else 00:51:45 that's bizarre this is totally totally bizarre not necessarily his fault he's 00:51:50 working with a charity in the U.K. 00:51:52 a Very famous charity Nordoff Robbins he has donated used. Oreo cookies 00:51:59 that he is licked or he's dunked or use half eaten he's put them in 00:52:04 a frame he's autographed the frame they're auctioning this for charity they should 00:52:09 offer some bizarre items Scarlett Johansson the actress sold 5 $1000.00 for some 00:52:14 tissues she once used William Shatner from Star Trek brought in 00:52:19 a whopping $14000.00 for his kidney stones so some bizarre stuff up for 00:52:25 auction in the U.K. 00:52:27 For this particular charity so if you're Louis Cataldie fan you might want to have 00:52:30 his half eaten Oreos. Already has one for each. It's one direction on border 00:52:37 crossings. To. 00:52:53 See. 00:53:03 For. 00:53:32 6. 00:53:49 Weeks. 00:53:58 The. Play. 00:54:07 When you. 00:54:21 Bring. Luck. 00:54:28 Plays. 00:54:41 A lead 00:54:44 a live. 00:55:00 Live. 00:55:08 Live our lives. 00:55:33 The Lead. 00:55:39 Live. 00:55:43 Plz. 00:55:54 Plz. 00:56:07 One Direction request room you keep so. Well say hi to Branka boss so and Britney 00:56:13 not Hamas who are listening to border crossings I just gave you some bizarre Louis 00:56:19 Cataldie news here's some bizarre Harry Styles news Harry Styles in Rolling Stone 00:56:24 magazine talks about making the new album his 2nd album he said he was high on 00:56:29 mushrooms during most of the album he bit his tongue off he said he bit half his 00:56:35 tongue off and he remembers singing while Blood was gushing out of his mouth this 00:56:41 is what you can read in Rolling Stone makes me want to buy that new album I can't 00:56:45 wait OK before I go couple of winners to announce T. 00:56:48 Shirts for Larry 02 and God and Samuel oaken Bongo lead Nigeria. 00:56:54 Congratulations more T. 00:56:56 Shirts up for grabs tomorrow thanks to Wagner engineer and Vince star director I'm 00:56:59 Larry London See you tomorrow on border crossings on the V.O.A. 00:57:03 Worldwide English network. 00:57:15 This is the only news I'm Gene Randall British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he 00:57:19 will temporarily suspend parliament for 00:57:21 a month dramatically cutting down the time opponents have to make their case 00:57:25 against 00:57:26 a no deal British departure from the European Union there has been widespread 00:57:30 outrage today over Johnson's announcement perhaps among the day's angriest critics 00:57:35 John Bercow the speaker of the House of Commons he was A.P. 00:57:38 Correspondent Charles M A does month in London he was not told in advance of Prime 00:57:43 Minister by strong since decision he says it is blindingly obvious that the purpose 00:57:48 of the suspension will be to stop Paul and debating Breck's it and the FULL OF THE 00:57:53 it's G T in shaping of calls for the country says. Johnson should be seeking to 00:57:59 establish his democratic credentials rather than undermining them he adds shutting 00:58:04 down Parliament would be an offense against the democratic process and the rights 00:58:08 of lawmakers as the people's elected representatives Chelles it with the still 00:58:14 struggling to recover from 00:58:15 a deadly Hurricane Maria 2 years ago Puerto Rico is under 00:58:19 a hurricane watch at this hour as Tropical Storm Dorian churns its way toward the 00:58:23 U.S. 00:58:24 Territory people on the mainland United States are also being cautioned Dave Roberts 00:58:28 is with the National Hurricane Center we're talking about late weekend early decks 00:58:34 week where there's potential impacts on the southeast U.S. 00:58:38 So I think with that abide now's the time to be prepared Iran's Foreign Minister 00:58:43 Mohammad Javad Zarif says his country is not seeking heightened tensions speaking 00:58:47 today during 00:58:48 a visit to Japan for talks with Prime Minister Shinzo Abi serif said Iran believes 00:58:52 every nation should be allowed to exercise its own rights under international law 00:58:57 Meanwhile the possibility of an Iran U.S. 00:58:59 Meeting of presidents appears to be off the table for now with Iran's president 00:59:03 Hassan Rouhani saying for such talks to happen the United States must 1st and all 00:59:07 economic sanctions against his nation something that appears unlikely at best from 00:59:13 Washington this is V.O.A. 00:59:14 News the southern Japanese island of key issue is getting punished by heavy rains 00:59:20 and authorities are warning hundreds of thousands of people to flee Reuters 00:59:24 correspondent Ryan Brooks has 00:59:25 a report record rains in southern Japan turned deadly on Wednesday syringe full 00:59:31 rains have caused floods and landslides on the island of Q Shu authorities have 00:59:35 issued 00:59:35 a rare emergency warning and evacuation orders for nearly 850000 people. Footage 00:59:43 from Saga prefecture showed floods turning neighborhood streets into canals after 00:59:48 several rivers broke their banks but you need an official from Japan's 00:59:52 meteorological agency told reporters the torrential rain was at a level the.