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the apple cranberry. so shall it. we went in. noon. welcome change your world islam and you know tony and tokyo shares a look at some other stories we're following this hour. i am. a fragile truce in ukraine is being tested as violent protests break out in the streets of kiev delegates from iran and six world powers had settled on a basic framework for negotiations on a final agreement on iran's nuclear program. and true sense of achievement i eat is trying
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to deal with on the first goal of contaminated water after the overkill of storage. ukrainian president viktor yanukovich announced late wednesday that she and the protest leaders had agreed to a truce but the violence continues on the streets of kiev protesters threw stones and fire bombs at police on thursday morning in a square in central kiev. they're falling for the resignation of president of coke which live rounds were fired government officials say at least seven people were killed and sixty others were injured. the death toll since tuesday has now reached thirty five. nhk world xi mit she has more on the unstable political situation in the country. and the announcement came out just before i meet my friends chris and me and colby has their own kids with signs of tools and to stifle the negotiation process. in a cool beach said. the same axis nations of that sect and
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said the dedication of installation. this can get down to its independence leader. they think why he acted like a good idea. i get my ears and what's kept bringing suit tonight christie's on tuesday with the most violent scenes like this package in november even to the country and the maneuvering of depositions beat iraq syria and iraq chris and ian is called the spec council joining the european union the flavor of concept i'd be friends here. the younger of the rounds from a busy moscow this prompted the last three years to fill the streets they did monday clause that hides the funeral. us brits
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in to back obama speaking he meant to go. one the ukraine tedious. the tree recognizing that along with our european partners. there will be consequences. people step over the lot. the all but i have been the commission claims to be fed restrictions and twenty senior ukrainian officials with that you can leave their cars kept pressure on in the cold beach the aircon searing the meat extensions on those responsible for the violence chris chan leave this bc we feel are deemed cakes have sadly all of us installation but chris and backing me up to eighteenth hole on the phone with jim and casper that auntie em and kale. he said that the protest as to what to blame for the by lanes the crowd if there is no waking in the eighteenth and open to it. for now. nice
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day. d and not going anywhere tmi to see any humor in check the hunt tori is an expert on the region he tells us why ukraine is important for both russia and the european union politically and economically dink one of the mystical considering the eu. ukraine is similar to france in terms of population and area if his inclusion will make a big difference. ukraine's economic level is still lower right thing but it has definite growth potential. i have a snack or lunch or to still be on the other hand i successfully establishing a common economic market. they have both former soviet republics hinges on ukraine's participation. still wanting to. so it is against russia's
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interests to just sit by and watch ukraine approach the european union russia can't afford to do that negotiators from iran and six world powers have taken a step for limiting the iranian nuclear program. they agreed on a basic framework for negotiations on a final agreement. they say they'll meet again next month. we have three very productive day. during which it identifies all the issues we need to address. in reaching a comprehensive and final agreements. there is a lot today. it will be safe. but we make a good start carmen's eu foreign policy chief catherine ashton and iranian foreign minister mohammed divides the reef announced but the talks have achieved. they said the delegates had agreed on an agenda for their negotiations and will meet again in vienna on march
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seventeen u s and european officials are pressing the iranians to further limit activities that could enable them to develop nuclear weapons. they want the reins to drop their plans to build a heavy water reactor iranian officials are insisting they have a right to pursue nuclear development they say they won't allow any of their facilities to be destroyed the negotiators reached an interim deal in november. they iranians agreed to limit their nuclear activities in return for an easing of some economic sanctions. representatives of both sides say they want to reach a final deal by july hundreds of families are separated her from hundreds of families separated by the korean war more than sixty years ago have met in a tearful reunion. they will spend the next six days together at a resort in north korea. eighty two south koreans cross the border on thursday accompanied by their family members most of them are eighteen or older. this is the first reunion in more
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than three years. it's also the first under the governments of south korean president. in a north korean leader kim jong officials in pyongyang and threatened to cancel the event in the south and the us went ahead with annual military drills next week analysts are watching whether the reunions will become a catalyst for improved dialogue between the koreas and i. there's been another major spill out for grisham and i each a nuclear plant workers were putting highly radioactive water into a storage tank box they put in too much and more than one hundred tonnes still now. we knew we were in the process of transferring contaminated water into a storage tank. when my mummy but the water was directed to the wrong cake and it
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overflowed all the post the water overflowed area surrounding the tank workers detected high levels of radioactivity in the water they found concentrations of strikes him and other isotopes reaching two hundred and thirty million back pearls per liter. officials with took electric power companies say the crews have close all the olives and taken other measures to contain the spill. they say they don't think the water reached the pacific ocean now they're trying to determine whether the accident was the result of operator error or a technical malfunction fishermen in northeastern and got a briefing on the water leak and said they're worried about its impact the snow. woke up to one of the world. in the state in the soil. she was going to be increasingly market. this new skin was in shock. people should make sure there's no more human or otherwise are just trust is going to get stronger southall said the situation
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could also hinder the utilities plan to release groundwater into the ocean before it gets contaminated crews at the plant have another problem. they rely on thermometers to gauge whether melted nuclear fuel is being cooled sufficiently. but they say there's now only one in reactor number two that's working. officials said on tuesday workers found a problem with one of the two remaining thermometers use to monitor the inside of the reactor. they looked into the cause and found that workers accidentally caused a short circuit while performing tracks the company continues to pour water into the reactor to cool melted fuel at the bottom. officials made their announcement more than twenty four hours after workers uncovered the problem but they say the fault the thermometer showed a similar reading about twenty degrees celsius as the working one soul they say they failed to notice the abnormality immediately the officials say the replacement of the officials say replacing
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the cage is likely to take time because of high radiation levels in and around the reactor to say a new thermometer. why have to be inserted through a pipe the political crisis in thailand is getting increasingly complicated more farmers are frustrated with the government which hasn't door of which hasn't kept its promise to pay subsidies before the crops cut to the gazan joins us with the latest on what's going on in the region. protesters are targeting this is only two thai prime minister who actually wants me in and try to force her to resign the figures led by former deputy prime ministers he chats about the taking of property consultant firm owned by the next family thailand's in the urban middle class formed the core of the antitrust action. we
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are not designing the new parents of her or her brother former frontier toxin she walked. he now lives in south east. they are more than ten years toxin to want to suck money out of the country in many ways. everyone knows that's great. the house another political crisis on her hands more than two thousand protesting farmers drove from central title to the top on thursday in a convoy of foreign peoples the government to make good on its plans to like it rise for about forty percent more than the market heights the crowd. we don't go back until we get our money. we've been waiting for for five months. we were running out of food to eat. we would move on. she just eats the middle class tony thompson family has used taxpayers' money to buy votes. mimi and pop the small areas north and northeastern thailand. this month. the election protests
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cost efficient. twenty percent of the country's twelve districts. election commission has proposed the see saw until next time the fight scenes and to conclude and muslims had prompted protests from one topic the cup. the main growth and rising populations are causing water shortage is to become more common in south east asia. people in cities like a longer war either taps me on one try in the future. now all malaysian japanese engineers are working on an ambitious project to keep water flowing into the sea. he will squat on eu ports. oh what a nice thing about all this began a mission. as the economy continues to expand. so this
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the company has fifteen overs as the final weeks of supply the country's aging population puts a brake on the economy grow. my mom yelled at training. she saw was a kid. a strong month for the concert. i want. so purple. bangkok. i knew the us naval intelligence chief says chinese commanders may be preparing a strategy for taking this in a couple islands in the east china sea then controls those islands china and taiwan claimed them our captain james saddle heads the u s navy's pacific fleet intelligence and information operations. he mentioned that i'm amphibious exercise the people's liberation army conducted in southern china last year and offered his analysis here the poa has been given a new
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task. to be able to conduct a short sharp war to destroy japanese forces in the east china sea. baldwin can play only be expected. a seizure this conference or even the southern regions. chinese forces have been training to improve their ability to land on taiwan. fennell say there's now a working harder in other areas. he highlighted two exercises the conduct of last year troops trained to block us access to chinese coast and bomber crews flew their first drills off the philippines the japanese government maintains the same cuckoo islands are an inherent part of japan's territory in terms of history in the international law. it says there's no territorial issue to the results japanese troops are gearing up to defend their country's remote islands personnel will soon belong to an amphibious brigade have been taking part in a landing trail with us marines. hundreds of members
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of japan's ground self defense forces are training in california. they practice landing in rubber boats and they carried vehicles ashore on hover crafts. the troops will form the core of an insidious brigade japanese leaders decided in december the form that brigade within five years. they want to build that up to three thousand members. then visor to japan's prime minister has denied telling a us newspaper had one goal of japan's economic policy is to build a strong military to stand up to china. the wall street journal's online edition on wednesday carried the article based on the interview with it's little honda the article said honda was perfectly open about what he perceives to be the nationalistic goals behind a policy overhaul notice on the nymex. it quoted one is saying that japan needs a strong economy so it can build a more powerful military in stand up to china. but honda told reporters on thursday that the paper had totally missed the point of what he wanted
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to say. what i actually said was that the power balance is important for maintaining peace in east asia. i never said out the damage is for military purposes. i don't even think that way. japan's chief cabinet secretary or she does say this as honda was surprised by the article to be mostly with the ppp the honda says he made no comments about an over excited way. so we expect honda to asked the news paper to publish a correction citizens of the comics this girl aimed at helping japan break away from deflation and achieve economic recovery japanese farmers have renewed their call for maintaining tariffs on five key items including rice in the talks for the trans pacific partnership free trade agreement. about eight
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hundred farmers and agricultural co operative officials gathered in tokyo between the hand of the ttp ministerial talks in singapore starting on saturday. lawmakers from the main governing party also attended. the secretary general of the main ruling liberal democratic party emphasized his party's position over the tops. all right it's the ldp will do its best to try the desired committee resolutions. to maintain our view on firefox all the other participants adopted a resolution that says he will clearly hurt the national interest to reinforce the removal of tariffs on farm. also in tokyo ttp negotiators from japan and the us are discussing tariffs on car imports. they held a working level talks this week to try to resolve a deadlock in certain areas. japanese officials are considering accepting the us demand to extend the period for safeguard measures that will let washington restrict
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japanese car imports should the surge. being well japanese officials urging the immediate removal of a two and a half percent tariff on key automotive parts exported to the united states but us officials are telling for an extension in the timeframe as far as possible and then to phase out tariffs in stages. get them posted its biggest trade deficit ever. last month that since people began keeping comparative records in nineteen seventy nine the country's imports exceeded exports for a nineteen month in a row officials at the finance ministry say the deficit in january came to about twenty seven point four billion dollars. exports rose more than nine and a half percent from a year earlier in yen terms automakers saw strong demand for cars in the us europe and china. magic then spent about twenty five percent more on imports led by liquefied natural gas and
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crude oil. the weaker yen is making fuel imports more expensive. rising domestic demand ahead of a sales tax hike in april also contributed to the search there's a storm hovering over in the eastern part of the united states our meteorologist roberts pena has more robert. the sicily this in a series of storm systems across five basically everywhere from the mississippi river off with ease from the midwest in dealing with either the fourth deep south. i go to the impact of the next forty eight hours out here you see on a cloud covered with a big airy and light and that's our next storm system now. of course the north we are getting a look at some snowball out of the soul is not just a severe weather which we are seeing doc was out but still about fifteen twenty seven years could be accumulating in western parts the great lakes even parts of ontario as well and isolated areas to see as much as thirty centimeters of imagine a lake effect that skinny kicking up as a storm system does continue to work he's a
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medic in across parts of new england in the southern call back over towards the eastern seaboard freezing rain is also a major threat every time we talk about this we're talking about slick roads even delays at the airport over the course toronto your deftly and be impacted by this but i think the biggest threat is here towards the south the cia or the orange. well that's our severe weather to read were looking at the squall line setting up could have when the sustained various mediums as we dig us out ahead of the in the straight line winds up to about a hundred kilometers per hour. he'll also a major threat and even there's the slight risk of tornadoes in that skinny continue to move. he's still going in the friday bring some of the rainfall with the butter millimeters of rain could fall so anyway you see here. are there in the green. we're talking about snow melts off combined with that said there is a very serious risk of flash flooding on the opposite side the risk of flash flooding is home a fire risk which is happening behind that called for a very dry air is swooping in from the north and that's canadian active
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parts of our oklahoma would put in the flames into an adult could spread rather quickly in that sweet talk the wildfires temperatures in the south though miles at this time of poison or what intake minus nine in some snow showers in your forecast in chicago. getting into the double digits here on thursday let's see what's going on over towards eastern asia though where we do essence effect snow in northern parts of hokkaido you to see about thirty centimeters out here but the most part. high pressure is moving in from the north end and that is going to be the dominating factor going into the weekend. beautiful weather for the most part out here still some showers and parts of the oracle news on but northeast monsoon is dominating down towards the south. if anything this is pulling in warm air from the south so temperatures are on the rise from the debut here probably is it you're around tokyo. in the outskirts that is this about higher elevations last friday saw at a record breaking snowstorm. well all on that snow is quickly melting and now we're looking at the risk of avalanche was to go to the three forecasts goat that we can all aspire to high school to getting up
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to ten degrees back the average though. hong kong open nineteen even taipei getting a little bit above average there by sunday he can sue the british isles where alden other systems moving through high wind advisories are in place all the way down through spain and portugal western parts of the british gauci to see sustained winds around fifty custom hundred twenty kilometers per hour this one biggest thing is in the north heavy rainfall are coming down with the season still the courts scandinavian peninsula but much of western year pre dealing with this even in downpours alias upper low is moving through here. you have a brain and thunder storm advisories in effect but when you are seeing the beautiful weather we want to see it some drizzle conditions the lease on friday but saturday and sunday shaping up to be absolutely gorgeous out there in sochi. this is the forecast. ay ay ay ay ay
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performer share the stage at a charity concert in north eastern france. the event raised money for survivors of the earthquake and tsunami three years ago in northeastern japan. one hundred people attended the concert of the church in the city and its trust her my fiance is a freshman at a high school institution the prefecture. the senate with young members of the french choral group japanese island is siad that showed he played music by tchaikovsky with the french orchestra she loves to see this concert is a great opportunity to keep people's memories and disaster from teaching. i'm grateful that she truly cents to ten sixty nine talks about the tsunami the organizers from donating money collected from the audience to recovery
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