it's time now for "newsline." the leaders of japan's governing party are putting their plan to fire up nuclear plants on fast forward. the liberal democratic party's draft policy says they will take step does row start facilities that have been confirmed as safe. they will now go over the energy policy with government

researchers. then they will include the plan in their campaign platform for the election in july. this latest draft takes a pledge the liberal democrats made one step further. they will decide in three years whether to restart facilities. only 2 of 50 reactors have been restarted since the fouk shema accident. the liberal democrats are studying way does bring the situation under control. the surviving suspect in the boston marathon bombing is behind bars. federal officials took him out of hospital and put him in prison. dzhokhar tsarnaev is recovering

from throat wounds. he's admitted he and his brother tamerlan let off two bombs near the finish line of the boston marathon. and he told investigators they planned to take explosives to new york and set them off in times square. health officials say the bombings killed 3 people and wounded more than 260. business people are being advised to leave a business complex in north korea. it's been effectively closed since earlier this month. and north korea is refusing to talk about reopening it. >> translator: our nationals remaining in the kaesong industrial zone are experiencing greater difficulties due to the north's unjust actions. so the government has come to the unavoidable decision to bring back all remaining

personnel in order to protect them. >> north korea stopped allowing south korean workers to return to the facilities on april 3rd. on april 9th, authorities in pyongyang pulled out the more than 50,000 north koreans who worked at kaesong. they proposed resuming talks, but north korean leaders refused. >> the north korean government statement referred to the warning south korea made that it would take serious measures if

the north failed to respond to its request for talks. south korea's airlines are joining hands to try to get the north korean's to use restraint. prime minister shinzo abe sat down with the chairman of the u.s. chief of staff. they discussed the north korean provocations and how to respond. >> translator: the security environment is becoming more challenging, strengthen being the alliance between japan and the united states is important for the peace and security of the region. >> they agreed the japanese and americans need to work more closely with the south koreans. they will fulfill their responsibilities under their security pact with japan.

dempsey has also been talking with leaders in china. he said the chinese consider islands at the heart of a territorial dispute with japan a tough priority. japan controls the senkaku islands. china and japan claim them. >> they did use the term core interest. >> a spokes person for china's foreign ministry emphasized the chinese position using their name for the islands. >> translator: the islands are an issue of chinese sovereignty and authority. this pertains to chinese court interests. >> they have repeatedly used the term core interest to describe taiwan. diplomatic sources say they may be describing the islands the same way to show how seriously

they take the dispute. authorities in bangladesh say more than 3300 people are confirmed dead two days after a building that housed garment factories caved in. rescuers are still pulling survivors from the rubble. and workers are demanding to know why the building was allowed to day open. crews moved into a third day of searching through the wreckage of the building near the capital. rescuers have saved more than 2,300 people since the collapse. but it's feared hundreds of others are still in the rubble. operations will continue until at least saturday. garment workers took to the streets to protest, saying the deaths could have been prevented. media reports say the factory's owner insisted that work continue, even though cracks had been discovered in the building.

the protesters want the owner, the government and related agencies, as well as factory customers to be held responsible. the building collapse is the worst ever loss of life in bangladesh's garment industry. a factory killed 112 people. officials in pakistan are looking into whether diplomats illegally sold liquor. officials say the staff were selling alcohol to the public. a spokes person for the foreign men industry says staff are looking into the complaints. officials at the north korean embassy say their diplomats are innocent. here's the three day weather

forecast. one more story before we go.

the man who led the british to victory in world war ii will soon be making his presence felt once more. new bank notes will bear a portrait of sir winston churchill. they'll go into circulation in 2016. he led the british in their fight against nazi germany. he was also a writer. the new bank note shows the nobel literature prize medal he won in 1953. bank of england governor said churchill is a fine choice, because he was a great leader, orator and writer. that concludes this edition of ne"newsline." thank you for joining us.