she made it on. i like it this christmas. new when you who will. the eye the ira welcome to nhk world islam and chino tawny in tokyo here's a look at some of the stories we're following this hour. i am. the governor of japan's okinawa prefecture tells the prime minister to make a decision this week on the east and the relocation of u s military bases. green leader steve jones and tells the lid to commanders to be ready for battle. given

the apparent forcing yourself to read. and people in countries around the world are celebrating they're expressing their appreciation and hopes. therefore when it's. for nearly two decades the issue of relocating a controversial american military base in okinawa has been a thorn in the side of japan u s relations. prime minister she is on the hazmat with. okinawa gov gibbons not high enough to try to persuade him to prove the reclamation of land to build a new air base in the northern parts of the prefecture. lima has indicated he's willing to consider this proposal and each year olds. the local come up that has more. prime minister abbott wants to move them on reduced to a new base in north eastern town. i know husbands phone to the fullest the bnp. you want the government could come up

with the clown that he is banking on his face. the air base was built in nineteen forty five. it's not home to about four thousand us marines. no patient has been the source of friction people living nearby say it's put them at risk. in nineteen ninety six. the us and found great humor in the face elsewhere. many people in i want to move out of the future. he says the us and japan sits at the purging of holstein mere three days. officials of the precinct into japanese counterparts to solve the issue. the relocation is an integral part of the pan to the nineteen oh four says the pacific region the current ruling party the tent to palmer announced the end. it's a neat as i agreed to move the pace to

handle call him at all sticky the plan to reclaim some pristine coastal area until the new base. abbott told the governor and the skill of taking around three thousand million down after year for the next eight years. now us economy. i had promised to try to reduce the number of pills that controversial in the air. no i didn't say he asked me to photo frames both the safety of its. a kind of sad. also most generous. it was gone. he said he'll need a couple of days to decide then they all know she's the kind of mood. i've asked the government to resolve many long disputed issues their tackling the problem is relatively fast and things are moving forward at last

it'll be a good new year which actually means in pain all over with that. we will listen to the wishes of the people of okinawa. and do everything we can as the japanese government said today. what have they. my dentist. seventy years of broadcast and controversy the people of the ox now i'm bracing themselves for id season. most of them up take the series in japan us patience has reached a turning point. oh come on top and a skewer and i knew green leader kim jong hoon appears to be sending a warning to his counterparts in seoul. he's publicly urged his military chiefs to be ready for battle and told them war could break out at any time. stephen tv broadcast pictures of him

some visits to the command of an army unit in the west of the country. the trip coincided with the anniversary of the day his late father assumed control of the military. kim reportedly instructed the unit to increase its readiness for combat. he traveled with three of his top military leaders including the head of the general political department. they don't have north korea's top defense officials recently threatened to attack south korea without notice. they were responding to rallies in seoul where protesters torched photos of kim jones. the doll south korean president talked and visited one of their own military units this week. she urged commanders to be on heightened alert. some officials are concerned that north will take provocative actions they see leaders in pyongyang. they tried to rally support at home following the execution of tim's uncle council attack air pollution in beijing has reached the highest level on the government scale as the density of airborne pollutants sores. local

authorities say the density of pm two point five particles at one point on wednesday exceeded three and thirty micrograms per cubic meter in parts of the chinese capital. it's almost five times as high as the level in which japan's environment ministry advised people not to go outside the city was built in the heats with buildings a few kilometers away looking forward to many people on the streets wore masks. they lived at the middle one. this is not an environment where people can lay. i have bronchitis and do my boys need to wear a mosque. the chinese government in september announced an action plan to reduce the pm two point five levels by at least twenty five percent of the team and surrounding areas like two thousand and seventeen critics say that's not enough they want the government to do more to deal with the problem japanese officials are worried about the effect of pm two point five particles

blowing from china the environment ministry has come up with a set of measures to deal with the problem the coupon. we want to develop. he and two point five full system which will function like a wonderful cause. ministry officials will improve their simulation of the flow of particles from china to forecast the pm two point five density in each japanese prefecture. the last encourage officials from japanese cities that have experienced air pollution to work closely with their chinese counterparts counterparts to help improve air quality officials will also hold a seminar next month for japanese companies doing business in china on how to deal with the pm two point five problem. a three year old palestinian girl has reportedly died in a series of israeli airstrikes in the gaza strip. military officials carried out the attack as retaliation for the killing of an israeli

civilian. a sniper from gaza shot dead an israeli man who was doing maintenance work on a fence at the border. hours later israeli planes fired at military facilities belonging to the muslim group hamas military tanks also shelled a range of sites. hospital officials in gaza say the three year old girl was near one of the targets is for the prime minister benjamin netanyahu said his country could not ignore the shooting of one of its civilians. negotiators from israel and palestine resume peace talks in july of this latest flare up of violence threatens to derail the process. japan's financial services agency plans to order mizuho bank to suspend part of its operations. this will be an additional penalty for its involvement in lending to

mom's groups. the loans in question are the times offered through a group consumer finance company agency is expected to impose a suspension of new loan applications for one month authorities are also likely to order the bank to improve its training for employees this is to prevent a recurrence. the bank in its holding company mizuho financial group also face in order to drastically reduce its management overall. this will be the second administrative penalty to be imposed on the bank in just three months. the latest order follows a re inspection of the bank and he's a full financial group last month by the authorities. regulators have been investigating why unusable made a false report during the earlier inspection that's despite the fact documents on such loans were presented to the board of directors. bank officials claim their top executives were not informed about the dubious loans. bank of japan governor hundred poker rohde has asked corporate executives to do more to pull

the country out of deflation bruno was at a gathering at the japan business federation in tokyo. its chairman and executives of member firms attended. whoa penalty killer believe you me it's many firms raise prices and wages the same time. it will have a positive impact on the economy of the rule so do also receives in charge of policies must come up with old matches. let's corporate executives to change their teacher. rudd also said he sees signs of an upturn in the economy financial markets and sentiment which offer the best opportunity to bring deflation two on and he pledged to further promote the banks and drastic monetary easing measures and work to quickly achieve a two percent inflation target prices of corporate services in japan for november have risen at their fastest pace in more than five years the increase comes amid company's improving earnings

officials at the bank of japan said on wednesday the corporate services price index stood at ninety six point six last month the geese the base of one hundred set in two thousand and five the index increased one point from a year earlier in the biggest year on year rise since august two thousand and eight. it's also the seventh consecutive month of increase prices picked up as companies expanded their orders of tv and newspaper advertisements due to their better earnings. hotel operators also raised accommodation fees. software developers have also raised prices. firms are updating their computer operating systems as support for windows xp is scheduled to end next april. boj officials say service prices were up across the board but they advise that monthly figures fluctuates quite a lot to keeping a close eye on for the rises in the index. anti

government demonstrators in thailand are stepping up efforts to disrupt the upcoming election. but teddy not so long and bangkok is following the story. on wednesday protesters tried to prevent paci registrations for the generator auction scheduled for february. annie also calling for the immediate resignation of prime minister he knocked in a lot. then the men started to gain an end to mankind call one month ago when sarah fox news station is in sight at the preschool crisis condition and as induction of corrections. the one thousand demonstrators and did a sports stadium and i hope when they took our seats were protesting to take part in

the new house election registration opens on monday us officials have put a temporary hold on applications. the democrat party which is the non fiscal position has vowed to boycott the election. many of its supporters are taking part in a demonstration. more than thirty top teams including the bullying can have filed applications for their candidates. however the continuing protests could call when it gets messy of the election into question. a nice beach on wednesday in dhaka announced plans for a national reform council. it would be costly to school reform including constitutional revision and an anti corruption campaign no refund council would be a genuine council made up of representatives of the people the selection of numbers though began with recruitment from various professions everyone's on going. so monday is leading the protests before my deputy prime minister once the formation of the people's

assembly that would reform the country before any election takes place. there is little possibility that he looks at him not to. so which is like a duck house if i had missed chances as indecent obscene requests. things i enjoy unprecedented economic growth but that success may mean an increase in the number of your seats as the country's already have a shortage of judges until his japanese universities are helping out. nhk was eighteen and have reports from canton tx. the cambodian economy expanding at an under eight ball overs giving her an forty businesses. they can go into the country. but that has for you to call friends over and rpg shameful business the pair of mitts the country desperately needs new rules to keep weeds around the time the kitchen

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apply here. cory is looking to keep blockers to ensure the points on four points in his own party ticket. qiang adjusted who were students at the skycity quite human. one of them on along too. we have to give the appearance of bias in accordance with corporate labor and tax laws since people like him are our precious resorts the bank i want to accumulate experience this company and become a lawyer to assist japanese firms might be keen for the thank you. japanese universities have been ups and concrete spirit that charity to see stamps by means of course this time soon. once the theme for size the man known as keyword and she has a shelf on as many faiths including islam and

present. so christmas is special for many people in the region and we didn't get how people of sending the painting of khan has done is done and can date yet. us so it is a knock on his son gavin to celebrate it this is the fact since christmas since us minutes because they know when stationed in the country. and there will be one rule for combat troops ish until too late or by the end of twenty fourteen although i miss my family very much. i'm chilly owners of the time here. tom moe my family celebrating freedom at home. what shape is that it's the midnight said this in karachi pakistan on the country is predominantly a mess and chaos at ten a bombing attack struck a chat to the northwest pacific the shah was getting more than ninety people the incident sent shock waves to the country although radical sunnis in

the swing attacks in afghanistan that has baffled by the christians and associates. then on it. it's god's message that we should love others as we love ourselves. we should love our neighbors. this is the message of christmas crafts i want to pounce on to warn you. the indian state religion is what is m but a growing number of people i enjoy the christmas atmosphere we got to sit there in age and the country is enjoying economic growth and consumption is teased up on separately. we don't know what christmas means that people come to buy these things they said they look nice and make them happy also in the pre dominant what this country since the ex and thailand and the number of people i enjoy the christmas stamp. that's going to wrap up our place in i'm part of the attacks that will be in bangkok there's a

severe winter storm in western europe. our meteorologist robert spencer is here with more on that robert. very odd fall blustery a winter storm across much of western europe has been causing will travel delays. heavy snowfall in some areas and furthermore you to see the gusty winds out here happily making for some rather crisp and well when the conditions in its all do too well to different storm system get one down here for the south that's moving away and then this one spitting just north of croissants that thursday one off here and while it is bring in some dusty when some areas you have been seeing over a hundred km cry when they're in the uk after tours france won significant travel delays at the airports wins here a bit of the body in the monday club is proud to now yup this low pressure area down towards a supplementary in this brings some thunderstorms in the italy in even got some advisories in effect over towards greece is moving in that direction but in the higher elevations. you're lookin' at some snowfall thus up to seventy centimeters could be akin to leaving on

some amount of sarah so western year you are just in for a handful of the mixed bag of priests a petition on this one. eastern europe and the hand while things are relatively calmer. it was sunny skies in warsaw. moscow led to greater heights thing rather crisp and cold but a least the fall weather is remaining father of their ports the west as far as the americas actuallyred to we didn't see the last several days into the northeast you just got the one i sort of thousands of people are without power at this time and this is the reason why he had significant ice accumulations in that these trees at ways the trees down or member and one soul snap on the powerful winds. all that's when the people's power and it is also very dangerous roads makes for beautiful scenery of the things i can look at this and that silly beautiful up there with that political listen up due to the ice accumulation still has the bomb parts a great lake so we had a lake effect the weak disturbance moving through conceal a dusting on

the ground as this moves over has a myriad see below but more than that. also to the pacific northwest across british columbia so wet and windy conditions for you out here. the stock locally at the jets for him. often towards the north and south of that things are staying warm in los angeles maths a southwest very dried out here but tend to prefer knees in the middle of december almost anywhere this is a well above average the family of the other steaming hot there for you. when terry pattern set up in asia. that's going to be the topic really going into the weekend. we have high pressure dominating out here but see this cloud cover forming right there on the eastern china. that's gathering them with the coming of the philippines which has been bring in some wet weather down there for you. these two are combined and develop a new storm system first across southern japanese island to look at some thunderstorms that is to move across much of mainland japan all their course and when he is tokyo during the afternoon hours on thursday you're looking at some rain showers as well as this moves away though the high nickel strong northwesterly winds the setting up in some while

morse effect snow is also going to be out there in your forecasts of things then called off for as often or time outs no we get yet again here in the northern hemisphere. change up a lot of talk about the southern hemisphere season photos coming out of sydney people celebrating christmas out here out on the beach adventures in tonight's one is the low thirties for many of you and clouding over there towards darwin to know that thirty two there for a hike in the venom for thirty five. by saturday best with your love whether physics and a forecast. eye. i do. i know

christmas is when people of many cultures express thanks and hope. we visit a few places around the world where celebrations are taking place thousands of roman catholics gathered in the vatican for pope francis is first christmas eve mass as pontiff

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religions. to celebrate christmas in iraq together he still in the middle east syria refugees in lebanon prayed for an end to the civil war and their home country. nevada has accepted more than eight hundred thousand refugees from syria one family spent a quiet christmas eve at their apartment in beirut. they fled the northern syrian city of qom initially five months ago the fire father said they don't feel like celebrating when they think of their countrymen still caught in the conflict. baby wishes for the future the new school. and again sunday. i am happy to go back to school in stereo with my friends. to celebrate christmas with them someday barely decorated their room with a christmas tree given to them by a neighbor i am as news line for those around

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