hello. you're watching nhk world "newsline." i'm shery ahn. south korean president will visit japan saturday for talks with prime minister yoshihiko noda. it would mean resumption of shuttle diplomacy between the two country's leaders after two-and-a-half years. the president expected to arrive in osaka thursday afternoon. will attend a dinner hosted by prime minister noda later in the day. the two leaders are expected to have a summit in the city sunday, likely to discuss ways to resume negotiations on

bilateral economic partnership agreement. defense cooperation spread from north korea will also be on the agenda. during talks, president expected to refer to an issue of south korean women that worked at brothels in world war ii. they set up a statue in seoul on wednesday. japan has asked south korea to remove the bronze. >> translator: the president should demand japan's apology. and repairations. it follows a visit to south korea in october pro-democracy people clashed. it is the first time anyone was killed in political unrest in

egypt since parliamentary elections last month. military police tried to remove people who have been staging a sit-in near the cabinet office for more than two weeks. protesters threw stones at troops and set fire to cars. troops fired back with guns and water cannons. more than 40 people were killed before last month's elections in violence between egyptian security forces and people demonstrating against military rule. egypt's military rulers said earlier this month they'd hand over some of their powers to the country's new cabinet but public anger about the slow pace of democtratization shows no sign of abating. at least ten people were killed in an oil town in kazakhstan when workers demanding higher wages clashed

with police. workers stormed a ceremony. they also set fire to cars and government buildings. according to prosecutors, these ten people were killed and several, including a police officer, were injured. details are not clear. but one protester said police surrounded hundreds of people and opened fire on them. workers at the oil firm have been protesting for higher wages for more than six months. kazakhstan's economy is booming thanks to oil and other natural resources, but the gap between the rich and poor is getting bigger. russia has won admission to the world trade organization after 18 years of negotiations. >> so agrees. >> russia's membership application got unanimous approval from ministers at a wto conference in geneva. >> thank you for all your support. >> russia's first deputy prime minister igor shalaev read out a statement from president dmitry medvedev.

the statement said russia is ready to help the global economy by expanding free trade in line with wto rules. russia applied to join the wto in 1993. its secession was held up partly by conflict was georgia. russia's wto membership will become official when it becomes ratified in the country possibly in the first half of next year. baimg beijing is setting up weibo. it is a chinese version of twitter. the authority friday announced new regulations that obligate users of weibo to provide a real name and other personal information to the operating company when setting up accounts. the regulations include a ban on writing messages, calling for rallies or gatherings, also require the operating kwp to tie

in monitoring of messages and report to police of illegalities found. increasing number of chinese people use the online service to criticize the government. following a fatal high speed rail crash in july, critical comments on weibo forced the government to take additional measures to cope with the accident. observers say china wants to suppress public criticism of the government ahead of next year's communist party convention when a new leadership will be chosen. the indian central bank has taken a new tack in its fight against the effects of an economic slowdown. it had been hiking interest rates to deal with inflation but now says it's keeping rates on hold and may start cutting them. the reserve bank of india says it's keeping its lending rate to banks at 8.5% and will make a careful decision on when to start making rate cuts. the indian central bank has hiked interest rates 13 times

since march last year to fight inflation, but rising interest rates on consumer loans have put a break on consumption. india's economic growth from july to september was the lowest in two years, at 6.9%. the european debt crisis has fueled fears of a further slowdown in india by weakening share prices and the rupee. good news for americans. the cost of living in the united states does not appear to be going up. the labor department says the consumer price index for november did not change from the previous month. one reason is gasoline prices fell by 2.4%. some americans are hoping their central bank will boost the money supply to improve the economic outlook, but there are concerns monetary easing could lead to inflationary pressure. the central bank said on tuesday that acute inflation is unlikely. it said it's going to maintain its monetary policy while

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here is a recap of our headline story. the south korean president will visit japan saturday for talks with prime minister yoshihiko noda. it would mean a resumption of shuttle diplomacy between the two country's leaders. he is expected to arrive in osaka saturday afternoon. will attend a dinner hosted by prime minister noda later in the day. the two leaders are expected to hold a summit in the city sunday.

they're likely to discuss ways to resume negotiations on a bilateral economic partnership agreement. defense cooperation against threats from north korea will also be on the agenda. during the talks, the president is expected to refer to an issue involving south korean women that worked at brothels for japanese soldiers during world war ii. a civic group supporting those women set up a statue in seoul on wednesday. japan has asked south korea to remove the bronze. >> translator: the president should demand japan's apology. and represent ar agencies. >> this visit follows a visit to south korea in october. that's all for this edition of "newsline." i'm shery ahn. thank you for watching.

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