covered that youtube dot com such rt america. second our website our t dot com sites usa. the council follow me on twitter. adam year and a bit i don't. all welcome to e zine it's wednesday december eighteenth and tactical and she in tokyo. the koreans have been liking the anniversary of the death of their former leader hinge on the ill and died two years ago. state television broadcast in the juices in the morning ceremony in pyongyang. the sunsets and

said the former leader kim jong on sand on the podium flanked by other latest sitting next to cameras that can be like a gimmick and the general political department of the army he is said to be playing a larger role in the leadership following the execution of the leaders uncle chad sontag last week. john was the former vice chairman of the national defense commission. eulogy. we will raise high the workers' parties but flattened and dedicate ourselves to which i commanded you don't own and no one now. all right with god. weekend update him and his wife visited the palace and the sun the final resting place of his father and grandfather. inbound before the statues of his predecessors. he knew he is the light of the executed attack. she was not seen at the event. she's the younger sister of the former leader state media had not reported anything about her since september attack. she's not have kept their political

status despite her husband's execution. some reports say she is ill. earlier we spoke to map file will bear associated press the new video journalist in pyongyang he is covered north korea for the past decade. today is not a holiday is not a tale that is normal working day that will be sold this morning is that while that major events the main central memorial meeting was good holmes tossing about eleven o'clock in the morning yet the full box and won it was on the streets to old west is that today was like this that she came to a standstill this very very few cars on the streets and very few people about. from what i can understand they were mostly inside in their workplaces taking part in their own small memorial gathering some of them watching the event live on tv is well the actual setup and the kinds of speeches were fairly similar calls one of the main officials excuses last week was an all

the butts. apart from that the others around on the central stage with adhesive up and i think that the full box of events very similar. however the contents of the speeches although some of the hops. intensifying the federation of the almighty to end the need to. intensely express loyalty to the present either. to go in to teach olive pits the two flanking him on the side closest to him with a suddenly fixtures of the costs years. camille nom de palma had them once i didn't shed don't pay the vice marshal of the head of the awb's fiscal bureau and other sites that that they owe familiar faces. ted own hay was st is the puzzle envoy old city the team to win to paging earlier this year. that's some people noticed is being debacle because it wasn't time to attack the stud who does good pitching in the cost so that

people find him directly with familiar faces. in all kinds of mention any kind of mention of the possum like to use. we could consider now the country's like a member of the royal family all kind of discussion is very rare in fights. basically you with the state of who really is something which people are intensely aware all of cole's that at the same time it's not spoken about publicly however it is possible to say that when watching these events in general. people the general to pay close attention off familiar with the faces in the press nazis that and their relationships and in the privacy of that unfolds all of the private conversations on shoulder this is a topic that people are aware of. it's fair to say that such a shocking and came as a surprise. and whether it actually affects people's lives i think in

the daily struggle to keep warm and find something to eat an older that the average person's concerns. it doesn't have a direct effect the reports that people relate to him. all businesses are next to him might be affected. that could well be true but on levels which a probity must be removed from average everyday because his daily life. and this last weekend as well we did have that jaunts to sit down and told with a senior economic officials to move stressed that the country's economic policies should remain the same that nothing would change its attempts to develop its economy. even off to last week's execution. i will buy a pc near the original is in contact negotiators from a brown and six world powers have agreed to resume times over iran's nuclear program. the marines pulled out of the times last week and now their baby can sit down again. the foreign minister msn and she met in

brussels the european union foreign policy chief catherine ashton. last week us lawmakers added more new meaning companies and individuals to this ancient black plants that i do she said that's angered the iranians. but he beat negotiation is in their discussions over how to implement a breakthrough deal reached in november. under the deal the lenient agreed to curb their new connectivity and extend pretty easy to get some international sanctions. it has introduced new safety standards for nuclear field processing plants and other facilities handling relaxing materials. the country's nuclear regulation authority the measure in response to the two thousand and eleven machine that nuclear accident commission cabins two hundred and forty eight facilities across japan. this english class at me process and feel nuclear power plants as mj to another set of regulations operators of field processing plants must come up with measures to prevent serious accidents such as hydrogen explosions and

unintended nuclear chain reaction. it was also made stricter estimates for earthquakes and tsunami that could keep their facilities operators of research reactors and facilities are required to take steps to prevent actions that could lead to being elected materials being released into the act. the anti eu will be conducting facility safety checks based on the standards it is time now for the latest business news now one reactors operating right now in japan officials need to import fuel to make out for the lack of that new clean energy. this is contributing to the long history of trade deficits at that. i didn't see that joins us now from the business as good morning night so that you have the latest data is definitely no they cited officials started keeping records and seventy nine and they've never seen so much reading. japan's imports have surpassed exports for the seventeen month in a row the weaker yen as we can kill more expensive to import officials at the finance ministry say the deficit in

november came to about twelve point six billion dollars this marks the long string of negative trait since nineteen seventy nine exports surged more than eighteen percent from the year an earring and terms automakers saw strong demand for vehicles in the us europe and china. but you can spend about twenty one percent more on imports led by liquefied natural gas and crude oil the total cost of all imports has been rising for the last fifteen months. on nuclear reactors are currently offline. utilities are relying on fuel burning thermal plants to make up for the loss. when us markets to plan ahead of the federal reserve policy meeting which wraps up later today investors are carefully watching if elements. some are speculating the fed may start scaling back its monthly on purchases of about eighty five billion dollars the dow jones industrial average ended marginally lower at fifteen thousand eight hundred seventy five

from one house stocks here are reacting with that of an email a guard was at the tokyo stock exchange the morning i mean what the plan seemed to be avoiding not active trading before the fomc meeting. what are we seeing at the open here. the anxiety that very good one too i doubt we're seeing a bearing on the middle of opening here so far like you wouldn't see any major moves ahead of the fed meeting of its appeal to new levels for the nikkei and the topics for december eighteenth of posts that in the positive right now but i can tell you the first couple of minutes of trading. they were both in the negative so we're seeing up about trading already. now the neck actually manage to make some gains on tuesday but it has clearly lost its trend for now. in fact in the last four trading days to make his clothes either in the positive or even negative two days and the negative two days in the positive and so far this morning we've also been in about a positive and negative. so really know their market direction. for many exporters as well as other key sectors. and that domestically also many investors are also coming to

the month and a window dressing or a book balancing periods to if you will where profits are taking or short positions are covered. for a bounce sheet purposes us we may see and it may be seeing a little bit of that thing in the markets as well. i am earning currency move it out chrissy movements that is on especially the dollar yen they've been playing a key role for all stock moves are of currencies ferry this morning. the death of course play a big factor in how the nikkei had trees the dollar yen hair of course that's a very important item to put sixty seven is sixteen oh i know i know that she felt a little oven to one fifteen overnight in new york but we haven't seen any clear direction for the currency last friday in the us in fact is that a high of over three point nine eight two. now as it's called and she was sixteen and seventy one not even those supportive data such as the home builder confidence rose in december accede to its highest level in four months. it was really sidestepped ahead of the fed meeting euro yen right now hundred and forty one points

thirty eight to forty four is also trading lower compared to the level yesterday this time. but traders seem to be sidelined despite germany's c e w business sentiment survey which jumped to sixty two compared to fifty four point six showing improvements for two thousand and fourteen will see how that plays in the markets. but for now i'm marginally in the positive for the nikkei and the topics i would ever see also how china indexes that play into japanese thoughts later maybe give some direction from those indexes as well but for now live and on the medal ahead of that key federal reserve meeting announcement later on wednesday fight back she started mean things a lot for that update. japan and mongolia are forming closer ties to technology the japanese want to help the mongolian ease the country's air pollution officials from the two countries met in the mongolian capital of the glove box or on tuesday

to begin discussions. air pollution is a real problem in one box or where nearly half the country's population resides. cooley used for seating and the inclinations are the main causes the density of airborne pollutants such as pm two point five eight pm ten is more than ten times mongolia as domestic standard japan has experience in overcoming and pollution has become so used to help mongolia taco land contours environmental problems. i believe this cooperation will help for the strength of our relationship and help the mongolian economy to grow japan began helping mongolia measure levels of harmful substances three years ago japan held by japan plans to use that data to introduce stricter regulations the operation will include improving called burnings heating systems in the capital. people in iraq live with the ever present

threat of violence more than seven thousand civilians have died this year in terror attacks and other blood shed at the same time iraq's oil sector is driving rapid growth. deputy prime minister for energy affairs hussein osiris tawny is in tokyo to call for more japanese investment. nhk world bank is awesome i asked him for the details. separate studies his iraq have the plans for its crew the only industry it's always the restart production to live was not seen for want of three tickets. but now it's preparing to wrap it up front for the coming due. we expect to increase own production and twelve lumps form. the end of scarcity and this is a large increase more than five hundred thousand barrels per day from the current elections

separate studies and iraq led to people on production by pinky pinky. but he says the country can do it alone it just happens that will assist the development would ruin the japanese technology when the japanese investments. and that we we can also get to attend. a lot spot kicks. and he can provide them with all that has seen its so old the county's call to many features. we are also moving and inviting for the project is called police to come and invest in the chemical. that crystallize it is. and as intensive industries. and also he was in iraq. with all its potential for as cheap whole material cheap you

skilled work that is the joke traffic location pocket size. cheesy i have them and capturing these brooklyn for the night market for them at the supermarket also. safety demands to the cause. chinese studies his iraq plan to end how security along its border with syria the school. to kill people. afghanistan is that tax. i explained to him that's no borders of syria open borders. and because there is. i was glad and sincere. some of it was weapons of crossing the border incorrect. so on we are looking for a technical tears. surveillance of the happenings at nine am

and the current improvements are needed. careless across the border into the country i'm always to see iraq as a last run here in the mainly east. that's how we study and out they cannot do the dance we need to raise safety before he came and i is calling us to join the new age of economic prosperity dice k awesome. in its fuel coco. one business headlines for you next hour i'll leave you with attack on markets i was. be. it is. when japanese

pharmaceutical companies find themselves in intense competition with their rivals more wine consumer is the turning to cheaper june at eight rides medicines with the same ingredients as this developed by major pharmaceutical firms by twenty fifteen that my kid is expected to grow to only seven billion dollars the manufacturers of generic tyneside taking some approach is to make their products stand out tools and it looks like a standard sales pitch to a doctor. the drug itself is a little bit different take a close look at the spill any scene has been mean weaker and dosage all printed in tiny dancers the vocal it's a good idea to have this information printed on the right to appeal. it reduces the chance of patients taking the wrong medicine. the end of the pharmacists making a mistake with the dosage. this

medicine is produced by generic drug maker in tow and ict. it is home to many pharmaceutical company generic dancer persians the brand name drugs has patents have expired. but what the chemical composition and fifteen week are still a child to distinguish their products from their competitors one lady is doing this is by developing alternatives to standard tablets. one company is now marketing and dyed easter had often been found. this sheet is less than a twentieth of a millimeter thick and is sold as soon as the place in the know. and now we've reached the point where generic drug makers are asking themselves whether it's good enough just to produce exactly the same drugs as the big drug companies. and i believe we have to add value to the product. by making them

easier for people to take it a company survey of doctors and patients repealed one important feature that people look for in the distance making them easier to smile this is a new form of trunk kimi taking even with our clutter. there are pills money available with the theme trees that now they are being sold in until four am. because the silk in the playford. this will make an appeal to children who often has a taste of their medicine. this manufacturer believes that the key factor in keeping them ahead of their rivals. all the make and taunts that appeal more to the end user. multiple models and i don't believe that merely replicating and road begins to consume were any incentive to buy our product. after all only by adding something to that rule will we get people to choose

our version. pharmaceutical companies around the world i live in intense competition to stand out from their rivals feel a need to think more about what consumers want. if they are going to survive. lawmakers have the lichen angela merkel to a third term as chancellor but it took months of negotiations. that is from apple's christian democratic union and the allies in the christian social union when again i like that and that they fell short of that feeling to it so that it purports to form a coalition with their bibles. finally on tuesday lawmakers agreed on by the less chance that she and her colleagues had promised to mean chairman's off nuclear power and nowhere quickly counted on to cross the red sea treaty of the framework of the seed banks. these court has handed down sentences to two former executives of a state owned shipping company one cheese

and whey is the chairman of the now alliance. me and some folks is as chief executive a cute and tiny an older floating dock from a shifty eyed when unreasonably high price. at times embezzling one point seven million dollars. minnie is to be a director of the ministry of transport. capital punishment is seldom in those dumb people who have held a senior government posts. she pulled the statue has mounted on is facing nine pounds the figure is created to commemorate the one hundred and twenty brisbane of china's finding father on december twenty sixth. in the nam province produced a statue or nana's announced birthplace the cabbie says the figure is eighty centimeters tall and weighs fifty kilograms hours defeat to declining in attack. this adage attention that a kraftwerk and sedition in the southern city of shenzhen. we will not say how

much this adds to his word internet use is asked to meet the price of one hundred million yuan or about sixteen point five million dollars now i still admired by some chinese who are unhappy with corruption among senior officials and the widening economic gap. i was criticizing gold began as a waste of money. it's time now for a chat to someone that people in circular wearing heavy counseling commuting under gloomy skies this morning. me on his side calmly explains what's in store fronts in the world like that. if nothing is going to get through this thing of the season ten q and we could see some personnel all of the season. this chilly and wet weather maker is this low pressure since then which is now affecting western japan with the wind speed of rain showers about one hundred seventy five millimeters of rain has been accumulated. kos has accumulated over parts of the covers to nominate us but to finalize the stock chilly day of record breaking amounts for them but couldn't

break and ice for the month of december and this system is expected to move to the east the pre suppose to be spreading to the east and then this one is too tiny weeny free to air from the north of precipitation is going to be either a snow sleet or call the brain. this is the outlet then from the noon hour stick thin weepy and tasty and a bird indicates rain and wind indicates now so it's likely file one area but the indications of the central japan up to thirty centimeters likely for non prefecture up to fifteen centimeters for the northern affairs the bekaa region and to cap a fine centimeters and swimming trip ten carats and boundary they could fall from the noon hours and that could change over to snow this afternoon though we don't think you will accumulate that sent the kids are going to be quite chilly isn't mentioned it on your behind only seven bakeries. i'm in the present their stay and ask for a best of the saddest am looking quite chilly in the single this is despite the sunshine into high. so

minus the cures on thursday and friday and some snow flurries unlikely tomorrow now let's continue to talk about snow across the northeast and you meant it had the first known fall first significant snowfall of the season for example in your seat you have the first significant snow. now this is as heavy snow maker. i'm just not up to fifty five sent me this nice likely find my area into wednesday morning the system will affect the comedian harry times a from the wednesday afternoon i started to snow showers with a great lakes region could taper off a fine wednesday that another year before the snow for two bastille for british columbia to be spreading into montana to thirty centimeters of snow classic icy conditions what chad when he tried the real deciding to washington on regulating the next thing to finalize afford their grandson licking corridors sunny conditions and temperatures that much higher than average. denver twenty degrees that's more than ten degrees higher than average twenty two means the extent that things are will get

chilly yesterday as the week progresses. they like like stealing the north korean bakeries in your city mining at every turn around town and for the craze for you in washington dc based on its site. ok finally across the europe i'm hopeful that they carry is on its way into effect the greatest nihilist izzy can see the lines are really close to each other very strong winds are blowing especially in the north one hundred thirty km arkansas likely in sector bring to you and you cannot cost and with better support than the system is expected to use and of course the east the slow pace of the nasty weather continue for the next couple of days across the british isles. it's been only rain today but that could change over to snow sleet were huddled in an ordinary sunday in their state and the wet weather will affect the iberian peninsula as well. that temperatures are as follows quite chilly in the ads here and the curry sweet snow showers on the cards for you

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