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now i met him up as the eye i am i. eye. plant daddy with us on this edition of nice line it's a wednesday said gary nineteen and passing glance she and telltale. police in ukraine have been squared off for months against protesters angry about the direction in which their country is going now the police have a new can be charged protesters in the capital a key at thirteen people were killed including six police officers more than two hundred and eight other people were hurt the protesters were trying
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to mines to prominence by the police caught in amway the demonstrators threw fire bombs at the headquarters of the movie friday. police have fired back with rubber bullets. thus his first hit the streets in november the angry that doesn't think her again until the council the trade agreement with europe in favor of closer ties with russia. some opposition groups are demanding a new constitution that would limit powers of the presidents and they want yanukovich to resign. police in the thai capital bangkok had also made a push to clear protesters from the states at least four people were killed and more than sixty people hurts. dad says that ninety five. light to the capital since november. what the government to step down police want them to go away local tv shows clouds of tear gas near the office of crime is taking much in a lot police have arrested two opposition leaders and detained more than one hundred. i had an assist
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the japanese had be dealing with the shrinking current account surplus and the people who break down the statistics on finding a well attested do with japan's biggest neighbor china. i didn't see the joins us now from ibiza says i the morning it might encounter as you know japan on japan's trade balance has been in the red for a few years now in fact just as long to record trade deficit with china for the second year in a row as exports to the country fell in two thousand thirteen due to a slowdown in the chinese economy. officials at the japan external trade organization or jeff crowe said that the nation's trade deficit with china increased by nearly eighteen percent last year to hit a new record of fifty two point two billion dollars. exports to china fell ten percent to one hundred twenty nine point nine billion dollars japanese firm ship your electronic products including semiconductor chips and digital cameras. imports dropped three point seven percent from the previous
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year to one hundred eighty two point one billion dollars officials say they forecast the trade deficit to remain at high levels as japan's economic recovery is leading it is leading to an increase in imports from china. what your stock prices were mixed tuesday on weak economic data on housing and manufacturing came in below forecasts the dow jones industrial average fell zero point one five percent. but that s the nasdaq gained two thirds of a percent rise in for an eighth straight session let's see how japanese markets are reacting we now had over tiling the epitaph the stock exchange. healy hall on the market opening this morning. maureen ryan braun says i'm truly sorry chance at the moment. and the opening levels will bless the fatter than the nineteenth. he's down to one point there is a two cent at fourteen thousand six
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hundred and eighty three and a broader topics is too low by zero point eight three percent. so we have seen quite a bit of profit taking at the open after the strong rarity on tuesday which was prompted by the bank of japan's announcement. they were in would lose is lending program. the central bank did not announce any further monetary easing but i was coerced. governor how do people put on asset to be legit and not hesitate to adjust its policy and that has raised hopes that the boj will provide most of the us for the japanese economy in effect this year. i even read yesterday's gain of three point one percent. we still don't know all those nine percent for two thousand fourteen. so see if the index can hold onto these gains made so far this week formally the boj decision on tuesday and once again the mayor wants for her the chance of bleached going to try and make me care he
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says this is results after them like it closed on tuesday. it reported a seventeen point seven percent increase in net profit for the fiscal year ending in december two thousand thirteen. and yes the creek and we kept the company agreed to pay a fine of four hundred and ninety five million dollars for price fixing on bobcats last friday when they also want to continue to trade shares of japanese export is to be in the yesterday on the back of a weaker yen. but overnight the yen has to be cooked some of this process. instead dollar signs to come out and made only he and his treating actor right now. dolly has not had one hundred and two point two four two two sikhs compared to one hundred and two point seven when the my kid here in japan closed on tuesday. my twenty s still did all i have to overnight week the us economic data caching this prissy peggy lee told the market balanced media that the president and as traders will be milking to more economic data like
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housing starts and the minutes of the fence genuinely meeting for additional trading cues. and your onion smell is not at one hundred and forty point seven one two seven seeks to help keep track of one my kid developments and i'll be back later with more beats that t i o k e lee thinks i will talk to her in a few hours vietnam is stepping up efforts to strengthen its transportation infrastructure as the economy continues to expand and officials there have decided to top japanese no help in running transportation. traffic congestion in vietnam is worsening as the urban population increases on the back of the country's economic growth. sources say officials in the southern province of b and so on given the go ahead to transit operator and construction company took him to the author of the service there the deal was set up a local sixty during the operation the company is currently working on a large
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scale urban development project in the province that includes condominiums and commercial facilities the subsidiary plans to run a bus route about twenty km long. starting in may japanese firms are hoping that the move will lead to more exports of transit infrastructure and technology what am i screamed as this next hour just another tax on the markets. it is. nancy
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told how his airbag at the negotiating table trying to come to terms on a comprehensive nuclear power deal. the two sides remain far apart on how to parent enron's activities. nhk roads i see it in essays in piano and is following the developments. we present it is from the five permanent members of un security council germany and iran gathered here in vienna for this round of talks. they will build on progress made in negotiations late last year. in november. you made an officer of equity to suspend part of the nuclear enrichment operations in exchange for an easing of sanctions. the temporary agreement came into effect last month. the talks in vienna with renewable more complex issues. leaders from western powers want to ensure that you're on board to acquire nuclear weapons capacity. they likely to demand conditions including
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scrapping their time on the unfinished iraq heavy water reactor. experts say the rain inside will insist on the right to use their nuclear program for peaceful purposes. and that sanctions should be lifted old together government offices in tehran denied having any new three goals. eu foreign policy chief spokesman michael mann says he expects more rounds of talks after this one the overall objective remains to seek a comprehensive solution that would ensure all the wrongs make a program is exclusively peaceful. i think it's fair to say that the amish school this bus meet in vienna is ready to create a workable framework. surface of the sixties. it's the decisions of the coming months. the two sides say they want the negotiations to end with the bail in six months. this seems not much opens them among
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the negotiators here. to cause itchiness a dentist tomorrow. deanna. aye aye fresh as treaty to formalize its border with the baltic state of estonia that we as in japan's claim to form russian how the islands of hokkaido the only remaining ten two of this before my shower and clean sea islands which are controlled by a rash down russian find this is a gain of rough and his estonian counted on to other months i had to sign the deal the treaty sense the border drawn during the occupation by the former soviet union that means estonia has given up its claims to russian control and measuring two thousand three hundred square kilometers. as daniel is an ace by the soviet union during world war two. after winning independence in nineteen ninety one the country started negotiations to restore its former border. estonia finally agreed to the deal
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after the european union and the north atlanta treaty organization are statistically d mikey it's the russian border. estonian foreign minister later said the border deal will prevent future complex. russian president biden and clinton has to solve the border disputes with china norway and other nations since taking office. the first of may giraffe in a clash has erupted in south sudan despite a ceasefire deal reached last month. local reports the armed forces loyal to former vice president me at my shock attack demonstrated station in the country's know it's cliche i suppose is say their tag is in retaliation for a government air week. south sudanese presence on the cake and any opposition forces but violating the ceasefire the two sides lot from this end until the january ceasefire. about nine hundred thousand people were displaced. some have fled to the and african nation the second round of the stock started last week but the two sides appear to be sharply divided over
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the constitution and releasing the size eights concerns are growing that this latest developments made for them to scrap the troubled peace talks an islamic militant group claimed responsibility for the bombing of a tourist bus in egypt. three south korean tourists and an egyptian driver which killed on sunday the cyanide based militant group and signed by a dam on these posts in a statement on the internet it said one of the group's members carried out the suicide bomb attack against egypt's economy the korean war and still widely tied to the government's economic interests and seven assists here they would focus on torrents. the group is likely to be involved in attacks against the army and police since the military led ouster of former president mohammad morrissey last july. the ski
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team commander in indonesia told nhk in the body of a japanese scuba diver was found off the island is said and done south of bali on tuesday. the woman was one of the group of the seven female divers that went missing on friday because the diamonds disappeared out the candle gunn island south east of bali. rescue workers found five when analyzed on monday they had drifted about twenty km to a group of rocky outcrop things. they were taken to hospitals in bali medical officials described them as weak and suffering from sunday. us officials have since reported a condition as stable. they may be discharged on wednesday the rescue team continues to search for the last missing woman. they're concentrating on the area where the survivors were found the head of the united nations panel that looked into human rights abuses in
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north korea has made a personal plea for action michael kirby says north koreans have suffered unspeakable atrocities. he says those responsible must be just as an hq for me tenderly points. no man has his testimony from two hundred and fourteen witnesses taking criticism of the facts as found on the three athletes the commission concluded based on their evidence in many cases the country committed crimes against humanity. it will be it's a unanimous report. it's the report which speaks of the great wrongs of the big dumb people. although north korea. and which calls for attention from the international community un investigators say klitschko prison is subjected to torture and other forms of violence. they estimate the number of people in political prison camps is between eighty thousand and
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one hundred and twenty thousand sq. even the leaders in kenya in nineteen eighty six cents. the report also recognizes the abduction of foreign vessels by north korean authorities is systematic. they believe agents may have abducted more than two hundred thousand people including more than one hand it's japanese citizens. the commission acknowledges the facility is ground naval and intelligence forces for abduction. they say operations were approved at the level of the supremely there. members of human rights in japan. welcome to people. they held a news conference in tokyo. she did read a book up and his wife's ikea. he gets on to make and he was abducted to the north in nineteen seventy seven when she was only thirty two
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two digit number three. but the slight think whether the un security council sincerely discusses this issue and takes action is crucial. it took many years for us to see the world starting to understand the situation. well as the anti gun on a visit to cuba right now. not to the area. tanner the abilities i get my situation. all three at abt ten at the security council japanese fx and rationing is a pc for the other called the report on this meant that he is and the findings by intent to shoot them. no story and leaders have rejected the reports the un representatives say they have been no cases of human rights abuse in the country investigators and outside seems un pc wii for the situation tea the international criminal court. economy to vary his
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pillow tokyo. senior diplomats from japan and south korea and that in seoul on tuesday they discuss improving strained ties to deal more effectively with north korea's possible military provocations. she had a head of the japanese foreign ministry's asian in oceania nefarious be around that with the sound on south korea's director general of the northeast asian offense he was appointed to the paris last month. he had told reporters exchange bank opinions on matters concerning both countries including north korea. he killed the genie to daddy and japan the us and south korea have been close a disgusting north korean issue. we all agree on basic science the meeting follows comments made by us secretary of state john kerry carrier sixty nations to improve relations as those that facing threats from north korea. china's
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president as stress his willingness to promote political dialogue with time on him and meeting with the former leader of taiwan's ruling party last week china and taiwan held their first ministerial level meeting since their split in nineteen forty nine. she didn't they met with the nationalist parties honorary chairman. we inch and in beijing. he runs to one news agency says she highly evaluated the ministry level toxic to the point he said the two sides had gained many common perceptions that will lead to the peaceful development of cross strait relations. she was also quoted at three during his call for consultations with taiwan under the one china principle. the end of twenty said they will be no turning back on the path to the peaceful development of china and taiwan times. i mean sea level meeting my new state for the two sides to strengthen their political relations. but taiwan is still reluctant to engage in political dialogue that could lead to unification. leann is visiting china with about
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eighteen business people and other representatives from taiwan. ocean. china's rule in britain. you can get the bones. pollution switches over to withdraw its relations with its neighbors. don't the challenge china please new store i know. little separates the top countries in sochi with the only side facing yell at them into games and in many advanced athletes in finding the little separates them from the people the side that triathletes lined up shoulder to shoulder for the men's fifteen kilometer mass rides a couple of them base an entire distance only to find themselves shoulder to shoulder at the finish like some kind of france it
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was going for his third gold in sochi. he finished in the same time as an airhead this intense end of the norway. but race officials at the foothill and geese events in the gold spot cod and adapt with the silver and a loaded chamber events of the czech republic the bronze. you see in the nordic combined jump from a ski hill then brace for ten km in obedience are always strong in the attacks anywhere again. again grandma finished sixth in the ski jumping push and i started the race and forty two seconds back. but he pushed to mingle. another indonesian magnus held down the line. the silver sunday and we sullivan germany got the bronze. the scan showed off their stuff on the halfpipe in another new competition at these games and even lives in the us allowed spectators and jackets with this performance he did come the first gold in the event. like when no candidate got the silver and
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kevin nolan of france the bronze. alpine ski is nailed down the mountain in the giant slalom team and isaiah and sylvania had already won gold last week in the downhill. she alp's her rivals to win another. i'm not cutting down on three advantage point zero seven seconds behind for this ill that the tiller and headbands band of the gemini got the bronze. snowboard cross season one and allowed the rides at the olympics competitors turn and down side by side as they raced toward the finish. when it was done. pierre multi air france to walk away with the gold nickel aluminium rash act at this event and alex de mood of the umass the bronze. speed skating is coming to a climax in athletes from the netherlands i'd grab a medal after metal you made a difference not won another gold for the dads in the ten thousand meters. he did so in olympic record time twelve minutes and forty four point four five seconds
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i just needed a clean sweep as a sven kramer took silver and bunting on the grounds in his round on the short ride to let the women competed in the three thousand meter relay the south koreans at least in gold. is it not the silver and the italian skated away with the bronze. german athletes lead the standings with eight goals and fifteen medals overall. just ahead of an obedience to and seven dollars and a total of eighteen medals that batch and the americans had six goals each. the most medals overall twenty. we'll see how those standings change and snapping push for more medals what have they can break through to the closing ceremony. aye aye aye aye it's time now for a check of
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the lead there. clara went against us being keeping an eye on the situation in north eastern areas of the united states people there and dealing with heavy snow my cherokee town says. if the weather conditions will improve. while catherine looks like the conditions will be on the improvements pints we still have that heavy snow to talk about a show you the conditions and let people in dealing with. a new round of winter weather has impacted the creed link station in the northeastern u s people in philadelphia woke up to the blanket of snow. kylie's recovered in point ahead of the morning commute in about eight centimeters of snow piled up on the ground. me mom madison wisconsin had thirteen centimeters of snow along with a strong leads. this is and isn't pulling away by it it looks like we still have a love of the facts known to be left to found in boston and dc in the big cities about twenty five cents features will be likely to hear across the pacific northwest with the incoming sis and i can stay for the rockies especially will see how very snowy and windy conditions
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has class coastal heavy showers down towards the south really dried up fire danger is to sit here and into your wednesday due to the clash of the mill the warm sun of the wins coming in from the gulf of mexico in the second cold front. meeting up. this is going to be the area near the ohio river valley where severe thunderstorms are likely set the speed perfect for that. golf ball size hail could be happening there oklahoma city are ready at twenty degrees what a warm up at washington d c you're thinking and a warming trend but this could accelerate the snow melting snow on the kiddie the heightened interest of not letting talking about potential for flooding in the uk when he had the wettest january on record to reach out for the banks of many rivers across much of the southwestern areas we still have a play and raise a toast hours of content for a spot that sank i only like one of them have honored that break in the eastern areas of the british trials spot on
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another new and antique system moving in dominating much of the areas especially the west so it can be a very short span of a break here the bigger picture with licking at many heavy snow in the alps about forty centimeters can be likely meanwhile the east looking really fine and nice with temperatures on the rise the collective venice and the making for each adventure things and seventy new trees whether that be at the strange thing is the associate was really the war a war and the bond that delayed and some of the games was actually have the snow yesterday but then again making at the double if this is even in your friday is the weenies who once were the spectators out there. now here in japan only to pressure pakistan again peaking at and we still talking about that and those lingering in east of hokkaido said northern japan. we again see blizzard conditions and leaves me the hike to the bigger picture as we go high pressure dominates much of the northern half of this
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continent budget down twice the south and southeastern areas that i know what ca had the ukraine and this leads me to this anomaly down to taipei hong kong on bringing those temperatures down so you can seem cool to win can be sent me this likely to stay that way type b seventeen decrease in hong kong is fourteen degrees sillier side here in tokyo at eight degrees partly cloudy skies and down twice the south still staying in the very least be likely to see it for the coyotes nice and sunny spells in manila throughout your work week same time that i'll email with your extended forecast around the globe i am to noon i am. and that's the way
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