the stories we covered the youtube dot com slash our team america and check out our website our t dot com sites usa can also follow me on twitter and irritated face for watching. i know. i was happy with us on this edition of news line it's friday said the rate for teens and tapping comanche and tell camp us and uk of state john kerry is landing his way to some disputes between some american allies in asia japanese and south koreans have been arguing over territory in the sea of japan and differing views of history. carriers them to overcome their differences and address threats from north korea. kerry met with south korean president chun come and get going is to use beyond say and still hears

them to wear their japanese counterparts in the face of the nuclear threat from north korea. it's up to japan and the republic of korea. to what history behind them and move the relationship forward on the south korean foreign minister has said the japanese anime to recognize what's happened in the past. you want as long as some japanese political leaders continue to make historically incorrect remarks. it will be difficult to build trust between japan and south korea. income non japanese needed to be flying to find history in order to gain trust from the neighboring countries i i the national atomic energy agency has advised the operator of the fish in the diet she knew korea plans to examine all options necessary to treat

contaminated water. these include retaining control discharges of radioactive waste water into the pacific ocean last the iaea said that second inspection team to the class glasgow than that this also happens to scrap we had kids. on thursday the iaea released the final report is submitted to the japanese government. team leader plunk on those anti hero says japan has established a good foundation to improve its strategy and allocate the necessary resources to conduct a safety conditioning. when tina says they will continue to be challenging issues that must be resolved to ensure long term stability. it was as if necessary to find a sustainable solution to the problem of managing contaminated water is being cleared the possible resumption of discharges into the ocean. after bringing the radioactivity levels to below the government's tactic the ad set to pursue this option. the operator took ally to carry company should prepare appropriate safety and environmental impact

assessments. it's time now the latest in a business news consumption may said the majority of us gdp but a key piece of data shows that it simply laid down by nature i didn't eat that shines is now from our visit this site the twenty third as the details. catherine is just not so much this year that out people don't want to work and to get into their cars to get to go shopping to go to the mall and that's what u s retail sales in january dropped unexpectedly and for the second month in a row. analysts are blaming the weather the record cold snap has slowed car sales and is keeping people indoors officials at the commerce department said retail sales were nearly four hundred thirteen billion dollars last month. that's down zero point four percent from december economists said they expected the drop in personal consumption to level off sales at gasoline stations bros but auto and auto parts dealers saw sales fall more than two percent. department

stores and suppliers of sporting and entertainment goods also lost sales as shoppers. as shoppers that is stayed home. investors shrugged off from american retail spending us stock prices closed higher on thursday as market players chose to focus more on earnings and economic data the dow jones industrial average ending at sixteen thousand twenty seven that's up four tenths of a percent the nasdaq four thousand two hundred forty deaths of more than nine tenths of a percent let's check on tokyo shares are opening this friday morning from the military joins us from that i can stock exchange for me the morning so i was the very laws are lifting sentiment how is token starting. yeh is actually a very positive earnings results of shrugging off not so weak retail sales this month and a lot of bad weather in the us lot of bad weather here in tokyo as well but to us stocks closed at around three week highs we saw the nasdaq also closing higher up forty six the day in a row. i'm not the best is

the one side stepping the economic data focusing more on your knees. let's look at how tokyo is taking off every fourteenth at the polls in texas tied at fourteen thousand five hundred and eighty seven we may be headed for a positive weekly close if we can stay above the fourteen thousand five hundred level which would reverse several weeks of negative polls is here for the nikkei since the start of this year and follow his lead to three percent decline last week. now the focus here major life insurance company is announcing its growth in profits here in japan for the april to december period based largely on the stalk up higher stock prices and of course at low or stalk valuation losses some to focus on a couple of the major companies here in their own lives and also night she lives at the end of the shares within that sector but also the focus here is going to be on the china's cpi that's gonna come out later today we'll see how that affects the japanese

shares related to china markets that sell very closely watched economic indicator for china as well so a lot of other asian indexes and investors will be watching that as well i ever release on the dollar dropped after the beach as sales figure. where do we stand in currency trading right now in tokyo. exactly we did see some fluctuations than tonight can now be more strongly emphasized how in step for step for step of the dollar can relates to be in the case and its rise and fall right now having to put twenty to thirty one and died there still industrial production data due out later in the us has offered get so another indication that for the world's biggest economy seventy during an hour and thirty nine point eight six to ninety six. odd that we actually called and arranged ahead of key data in the eurozone in the form of gdp that's going to cost a lot of economies on only eurozone but when the weekend of france into money and other countries as well as i mentioned that china's cpi

has been the key for asia pacific region. we'll see how that relates to japanese shares. but it's also awesome earnings related shares on track. those nature in that day as well if you're into pan. concerning those life insurance companies and that's all for me so far positive start for it and it effects us. i mean things allow for that updates. many investors have had a rough start to their year the markets have taken them on a ride. the former president of the world bank says investors are still seeing the results of the global downturn and the reforms that brought about. i sat down with robert's i like to talk about the markets change and the risks to recovery concerns in a month in asian markets have surfaced recently received no volatility in markets currencies. do you characterize the global economy today. you seen the intersection of two trench. one is in the aftermath of the great recession. we're still five

or six years into her car free pattern in working with some of the issues of remedies for the great perception so some of the monetary policies than others but you deal with heat bring the united states to work. eventually the thirty year old trucker reforms in japan on the monetary policies. but at the same time you have the need for structural reforms and those are longer term one we from a market perspective you could describe this news the people in our re assessing risk. last year the markets were always with the expansion of monetary policy and the increase in equity prices seen in japan in the united states. now people know it's been this close to their value we need to raise characteristics of country sectors and companies are you worried. by and large a key to what we're seeing is that in the yukon in the world economy is a whole is that your scene a return to more normal conditions the united states is having a fraud these

modest recovery but one of the question mark shoes. what is the normal that they are returning to it's clearly not the normal of two thousand seven before the financial crisis. you're a lifelong advocate of free trade. geez think that's a reality for east asia. one day. well i think if you look in any region of the world has benefited enormously from open traded to the stage. and this has been the model of export led growth of starter but japan korea taiwan china vietnam and others. but the national system is changing you can no longer rely on the united states and are to be the ultimate consumer of all those goods this is one reason why countries such as china are trying to shift to more domestic demand. and while he is teamwork read within the region. and this also presents opportunities because the countries of ozzie and for example are now at higher income levels you're creating middle classes that create additional opportunities show

icy treat is not only breaking in of itself. it is also a method by which countries can use the international system to push their own internal reforms. heidi is a territorial disputes in east asia have affected business in the region. the thieves i added to the degree of worry and i see that one of the things that help this region grow in the past fifty sixty years was security stability. you now have a rising china. people were uncertain about how china was seen shown interest in it expands its military what role will play. china also has an interest in stability china also has an interest in open sea links. the case of the united states and japan i think this means that going back to things like the ttp. if you can connect economic commonality of interests with security interests to have a stronger system. one of the things that characterize the east asian development is not trying to come up with

the regional bloc its head when people are described as open regional lists. it's recognize its interest with north america south america through a pack of the middle east with europe and i think it's healthy for the global system and i think it's healthy pre stage. more headlines for you business next hour. ali with another check on the markets in.

enzyme in indonesia are sharing what they knew about disasters with those who didn't even seem all its trials in with his civil servants back on and on the hunch a massive quake and tsunami hit in two thousand for both traveled to a hard hit region in north eastern japan where people are still rebuilding from the great disaster that nearly three years ago. nhk rules not to contest that has their story to listen for it. tourists and reconstruction sites they survived the tsunami that was true the indian ocean ten years ago. they're shouting what the blind and their experiences. they had spent for the past two years here in the japanese city of the estimates china. more than one thousand one hundred were killed in the tsunami not to miss in the forties

the wind roaring twenties when the tsunami hit the accounting and in asia boost last minute trips the noted that parents masters going to pick up that road and causing a traffic jam. murray is in the breeze that made a special presentation focused on the prepared pans. they believe that the best way to save lives is to making the gym goers as we grieve just as japanese stall. it is in but they also wanted to make sure they're calling out to wheeze and sometimes good things. kenya. the song owner the sets were discussed in and want to be seen in the field the idiots and today's debates a student but he saw summoned him and seized upon. they also chores economic empowerment of citizens as another cop. in a chat. women who lost their

husbands in the tsunami last year on a boat to rebuild their livelihoods. i am up to ten per cent in us not just a month. and this phrase gave mountainous in the freezer some food for thought preserve became very interested in a small business local women have done it and all the group began to sell the gold is handmade. they started serving a few here and there for about ten dollars each then the goal is copyrighted he took off. thanks to the helpful some celebrities the sales boom and a women now make about ten thousand dollars a month. eight. two men discovered a new wool government officials and pray that the recovery efforts. i could help encourage and support grassroots initiatives that gets a virus

back on their feet the heat the situations differing estimates of shimmer and that's it. reducing port city's plan to continue to change it for years to come i hope re examine what they have learned here and make use of it in the prevention and minimization of future disasters. he is looking to need he applied in indonesia bought some local interest the alertness of the cds and there were now you know and would do whatever they can to help people in force companies to cover from the dock. malvo confess it was an nhk won't miss much. i still love the teams at watching them that'll count zach had a week into the winter games in saatchi

the chancellor of the figure skating superstar would bring them another gold on home soil. things didn't turn out as they plant. and kingfish and guys won medals at four different olympics including gold and ten is going for another medal as he prepared for the show at the ground but he was suffering from a sore lower back. each identical jumped in his warm up and eat it again. many poll bounce bring an end to his competitive caveat is that every year. japan became the first needed to earn more than one hundred points in the short program. he settled well back to twenty one points in forty five. he's healthy been going on in the free state to become the first male japanese figure skater to win gold the extent of the day is in sight and had it in august of this pain and that's good to see and japan for its speed speed and run against him going round and round a short track for skaters made it to the finals but three of them fell down the gender of the tribe that was left as the only skater still on her

feet she held on to win the first gold medal for china at these games i had a fun ten and it lead to a still there and talks and he of the south korea and the bronze. the spp this was striding around a long track in the women's one thousand meter that's huge and palm. i lasted the rivals to win another gold for china. in the midst of benevolence that the silver and another judge stated my beloved brides freestyle skiing is from a hill in another new event at these games in the men's a slope style and the americans were ready just fish instead of the us won the first gold and other mary came against anybody got the silver and the nicholas get for the bronze cross country ski is among the fittest athletes at the olympics and they demonstrated that's in the ten km classical race. is she had called jacob pullen

dal paste everyone to take the gold highlights a cost of the street and got the silva and his neocons of norway the bronze. athletes headed out to the track in the men's twenty km individual race like the book on de france finished on top to win the gold and glass and germany takes so that an fta need any chance of the russian brides the athletes competed in yet another new events the luge team relay. jenny has had great success at these games and again they won gold the russians walk away with this other an eighteen month the. the bronze. there's more than a week led to lots more to come from saatchi and live updates throughout the games the communities across japan are reaching out to neighbors who are grappling with dementia. don't think cafes when some friends and caregivers can get

professional advice and a chance to socialize the neighborhood group in the city of constantine your tent camp set up this dimension campaign last september. it's opened once a month at a local community center. the main goal of the people who managed the campaign is to educate the community about dementia nurses and long term care specialists familiar with dimension of red vines to caregivers and neighbors health professionals can spot signs of dementia by having informal chance. and you need to really test team indictment says. a seasoned photo is a former nurse who worked with dementia patients for forty years. she tells people that the campaign how to relate to people with the disorder i don't get me

down that i can in some instances. dimension kathy's also give sufferers and caregivers to stand next to people in the community. she and e t bill yes you do live by themselves. you see me has dementia. a neighbor invited him to the campaign last year after noticing the couple's seldom left their house. a health nurse realize that you see me captain and ten. she was able to receive specialized and after that she use to be a tea ceremony teacher. the manager of the campaign team for the job of making tea. she's thrilled by the responsibility and looks forward to visiting everyone. i'm grateful that everyone enjoys drinking the tea i make. following the still it makes me sad

the other man resold for but she feels better too when she comes to the cafe the members of the kami ni team. real coach who helped you with a growing problem of dementia. unique lessons well my dad. by creating a space where we can relax chat and also learn about dementia we hope to help people realize that they may well have to deal with this problem is on a personal level in the future. from b to mention specialists held a forum to talk about setting up more of these campaigns and use that term us like eco takahashi organized the forum he says the demands of campaigns have great potential the family's responsibilities are late and even a little. the patient can that get longer. that

means less of an economic burden on site. this is how society should you with dementia. it would be wonderful if the measure campaigns could come up part of that framework. she plans to drop guidelines to ensure demand to kathy's offer appropriate assistance to sufferings. he sent the cafes can help relive prejudice and made people with dementia realize they aren't alone now such act as though whether it's a snowy morning year and ten pm. radiologists and family passes to last his death and it's up twenty five titles they protect him for the first time in thirty years. it's genuine outside of the studio. and we are seeing in the forecasting that snow and winds are picking up into the next several hours of family afternoon in the blowing snow could happen so you may want to go home early because

the traffic disruptions could occur. though the heavy snow maker is now situated to the sound of the country and it's expected to new toys the east while intensifying us are expecting winds that snow showers for in many areas. this is the sample now looking to make twenty four hours the heaviest element found in the central region up to fifty centimeters twenty four the mountainous areas up with a low lying areas and a country region up to fifty centimeters and bigger greater tokyo area probably up to ten centimeters one family had heavy snow on the weekend was twenty seven centimeters on the ground states likely to be as heavy them on this planet. the letter a ten centimeter is claimed to have the fortitude to residents now on top of that we are going to be very very strong gusting about one hundred twenty six kilometers per hour. you cannot stand when i disappoint and we could hit as high as seven meters high so and this is the very slow moving systems that conditions will remain un

announced the side and two tomorrow. heck it's known in the open day on friday and at the changeover to realize that day because temperatures expected to be in the double digits. the commission for an hour and a way as well as alyssa western japan. nice clear sky as it should come back when your saturday but today traffic disruptions in us the power outages can occur simply swept out. as for the rest of a zealot don't run from most of the karen and bad air quality is quiet and especially in from april this scattered heavy rainfall for the help of the philippines them in a line sunny skies with hunter thirty one degrees and gusty conditions in bangkok in longmont much sillier than average in hong kong that you live in the crease with an eye on the last day of the business week. across the america as another major winter storm over the isa ed this has been causing a lot of snow and ice over the eastern part of the us to show you what the situation is like take a look at the media. what about whether

hit the us bringing heavy snow and sleet along the northeast corridor or at least seventeen deaths were blamed on the storm. most of them were the result of traffic accidents. utility crews lever to restore power to hundreds of thousands of showing residents many scores and base the seas were forced to close. driving was passable stanley and six thousand flights were canceled. but that heavy snow maker will likely move along the east coast. wellington's to find a lot of heavy snow a lot of the freezing rain is possible across the north the zapping pieced in canada to fifty centimeters of snow sand york city an additional fifty centimeters five week period i during nighttime hours. in addition to that strong wings because the quite dangerous conditions. the sustained doors but the most trouble nature to bring your winter survival kit including extra food and water and avoid traveling by yourself. now this is then she pulled away by your side and a button next to one is still in line a lady in mind some nasty

conditions will continue into the next couple of things across the scene us and temperatures are going to be much much earlier than they should be the center of the year frank years extended forecast around accra i wound i do. the owner. the two. it

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