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you can. one will win the us. welcome to your world is love and you know tommy and tokyo. here's a look at some other stories we're following this hour. i am. the shutdown had a major beef corn exchange and who has highlighted the risks to the virtual currency the position of the nation nuclear plants have allowed journalists to see firsthand the central control room inside the facility. and we'll show you what life is
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like many lived in the syrian city of aleppo. as people deal with sniper attacks in several spots from the air officials at a major dent corn exchange and tokyo have subtly announce that they have stopped all deals. they say they have taken the step as a security measure. big change from docs suspended did quinn transfers on every seven due to what it described as a systems glitch at the time adam dykes said he was trying to repair its system but on tuesday the site went down town docks was considered the world's biggest nickel in exchange it boasted more than one point one million accounts both inside and outside japan but users are now unable to contact the exchange either by phone or email. early on wednesday mountain ox released a message saying they will closely monitor the situation and react accordingly. the corn exchange leaders stressed that the problem of low doc
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says shut down lies with the firm not with the virtual currency itself. they said they'd call in exchanges are working together for the digital currencies future and the security of customer assets. some overseas bit corny changes were forced to suspend operations after their systems were hacked and that as raise questions about the stability of this digital currency trading system the news that i made david corn exchange has called in all its trading shocked users around the world. nhk world tour on the title explains how the virtual currency gained its influence the concept of the coin was first revealed five years ago the proposal came under a japanese name to coach in the com also seen as a pseudonym for an un identified person or group the proposed concept was to create a currency debt independent from any country
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at the time. europe was hit by a debt crisis. the goal to have been texting was launch cross border universal virtual currency the currency which billy will not diminish. even in its day dylan national fiscal crisis the point quickly gained popularity worldwide users found it easy to make transactions via internet was very small fees. instead of using credit cards or bank's money transfers. the virtual currency can be traded into real ones. some investors who seek better returns down is also appealing. he traded heavily to take profits stemming from its fluctuations. millions of people around the world. i'm now using to court. a number of exchanges such as non talks are also on the rise numerous issues of concern have recently surfaced
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charlie shrimp new york bar a winner was a leading member of a bit cloying industry group. but in january. she was indicted on money laundering charges. he allegedly a lot of good pointers for the trading of illegal drugs and shady internet site. new york state became the first to announce a plan to relate where the currency can be traded restrictions on the corner and al spending globally government officials of emerging economies say expansion of the coin trading can be a threat to their national currencies in tying up costs are just an exchange between good point to know you and in december i should end in to msia also decided to cook it and if you missed this month's and an expert warns that uses need to protect themselves. lols middle school the school. it's common for participants to create something like a
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concert without help from governments. they have to be aware that this was governments will not protect them will last a long walk in that the new school couple few weeks. the corn market is no set amount to more than ten billion dollars. millions of people don't use to using dispersal currency. then everyday tool. and now the problems are real. and they're no good to miss the rules to wrigley. trundle titled the misty world people in several parts of japan are dealing with foreign air quality high levels of airborne particles known as pm two point five have prompted alerts and ten pre pictures. p and two point five is a serious problem in neighboring china
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the gigantic menzies brain back in dc and it was louis was a big deal. this week on skirts up with this commission. health officials urged caution among residents after high levels were detected on wednesday. they say the average the league and submit articles should not exceed seventy micrograms per cubic meter the government uses that benchmark for warning citizens to refrain from outdoor activities yo ma the agency tt. meanwhile the we knew that the city on the sea of japan post the teachers decided not to open windows for ventilation because it's for air quality the average cow for the past twenty four hours in the top four hundred sixty micrograms per cubic meter. that's eighteen times higher than the guidelines set by the world health organization expert said japan's national institute for environmental studies say so called cross border pollution is more likely to occur in the coming
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months they say causes seasonal winds from continental china the operator of the grisham and iag has opened the central control room of the facilities number one and two reactors to the media for the first time since the two thousand and eleven accident the room shows signs that workers on duty that day struggled in the dark to get the power back on the central control room located near or next to the reactor buildings is where workers struggled to contain the crisis three years ago amid rising radiation levels. radiation in the room just after the accident measured one million seabirds for our. due to de contamination efforts the level has since fallen to less than one one fiftieth of that figure. members were scribbled on a wall next to a watergate. it suggests how staff trying to monitor the amount of water inside
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the reactors couldn't write the figures down on paper in the darkness. the hydrogen explosion that occurred soon after the tsunami struck blue panels off the ceiling lighting fixtures remain exposed the governing parties have just started to discuss the new basic energy plan for the country. but there are still many unanswered questions over petitioner in particular it's still unclear why the workers couldn't properly band off the pressure inside the containment vessel in reactor number two. no clear picture as it emerged of where in the reactor and containment vessel were damaged. and why so many radioactive materials manage to escape. i knew i needed chinese citizens assuming two japanese companies which they say use them as forced labor during world war two is the case is accepted. it will be the first time for chinese courts to rule on such an
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issue. the plaintiffs comprise thirty seven former laborers and family members they lodged a complaint with the court and the jing a lawyer for the plaintiffs said. former workers were brought to japan and forced to engage in hard labor for the firm's mitsubishi materials and with a cold coke and engineering the lawyers said the plaintiffs to demand the company has apologized to each plaintiff and pain in the bitter compensation of about one hundred sixty seven thousand dollars. because if we took the japanese firms but couldn't reach agreement on their responsibility. so we filed a complaint with fourteen eighteen. courts in japan have turned down similar claims filed by former workers have ruled that china were down six to dance with the normalization of bilateral diplomatic ties in nineteen seventy two officials from both mitsubishi materials and the old coke and engineering
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have declined to comment they say they don't have enough information. japan's chief cabinet secretary issued a severe says he'll not comment on the latest loss but he reiterated the government's stance regarding wartime compensation. you can see i believe the snow claims relating to the syrians have already been dealt with in the joint statement issued by japan and china. in nineteen seventy two. similar lawsuits have been filed with other ports but none of the complaints had been accepted. it's not yet known whether the present laws that will proceed ports in china said to be influenced by the communist party. chinese authorities say they formally arrested a prominent too weak or scholar last week and are questioning him on suspicion of promoting separatism feel i'm told he had already been detained at his home last month. the beijing based academic is reportedly being held at a police station in the northwest region of the country. sources close to
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top the state. his wife received a notice from the police on tuesday officials say the requesting party for allegedly advocating reader in attendance and causing great harm to china's national security. salty criticize the government for blaming a deadly car crash near tiananmen square on a weaker separatist group. he said the conclusion that the crash was an organized attack lacked sufficient evidence cody has also spoken out against the chinese government's stake policies but as consistently oppose the leaders moves to seek independence. he has called for reconciliation in the true understanding between the leaders of the country's majority han people. supporters say the scholars arrest amounts to a suppression of criticism against the government the on. the in the nation of
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one hundred him. this percentage so choose your seats and the future. your annual national people's congress. aggressive in cheek jumping fences along this challenge. don't miss our special coverage. utah ukrainians are watching their country fall into a deeper political crisis divisions are widening as interim leaders are trying to form a pro western transitional government and pro russia supporters are intensifying their calls for a separation. protests and escalated in eastern and southern parts of the country after interim leaders. then the user has an official language. demonstrations are especially fierce in the city of seven still cool in the crimea region. the city hosts the russian navy days many people there calling for independence and demanding to join russia. acting president
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aleksandr your chin up call an emergency meeting of security officials he said the separatist movements are increasing and must be dealt with immediately. british foreign secretary william hague met with his us counterpart john kerry in washington he said the two nations strongly support ukraine's unity and territorial integrity. us president barack obama called his afghan counterpart karzai on tuesday to tell them. he has instructed the pentagon to begin planning for a possible full withdrawal of american troops from the country. karzai has so far refused to sign him by the collateral security agreement or bsa. that could keep american boots on afghan soil beyond the ears and the result appears to be a protracted tug of war between the afghan leader in the white house and it's the world's was at the suter reports. the us government has been on the back cause i signed the bsa on number of
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times but to no avail. on tuesday the white house made these for aspiration don't get the gang. the longer we go. without a signed peace the essay that by necessity the more narrow in size and ambition the mission for a post twenty fourteen force would be. yelled the bottom is rationed was to keep some us troops in place after the call but nations and in order to fight terrorism and trying often soldiers. it sees the bsa as indispensable to the plow the us who always troops out of iraq three years ago. after paying you to sign as seen on security deal. security conditions their house is trustworthy obas apparently putting pressure on kyle's eyed by suggesting the possibility of a so called zero option which could plunge the country back
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in to see the wall. but karzai has told obama he will not sign the deal on to peace talks with the anti government polygon have gone cause i am p is to be seeking to use peace talks to engineer a roadmap to stability by himself while considering the strong anti us sentiment in the country members of afghani says hi peace council met in dubai last week we four senior todo members including the former todd ritchie was finance minister. i jammed to see in the afghan government says they agreed to walk together to prepare for peace talks talabani has issued a statement saying that this team doesn't represent them they say the deal house and all the lead the team. that i don't see the cars i administration as a puppet of the united states and refusing to hold direct talks the sec east that it meets the lord. kabul. people
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living in serious post populous city have seen their street's collapse into battlegrounds. government troops control much of western aleppo and rebels controlled least civilians are caught in the middle living with the daily threat of bullets and bombs journalists came to go so is there and has this report for us. this is the net the motor city nc. well more than two medium people there sepia fighting has turned his station cd into rubble and debris. of the noble and just being dropped. in the blue album rebel control and that of a player that i can see issues crater in the roll off the ball masquerade tried to start being a great addition to its and the children to decline
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and they knew. idol. waited on the lake. phil smyth that'll cut above the double talk still is. people from the pta and tell me that government forces started dropping them about three months ago. paper by country borrow his rule since and materials like nails that are used as a shrub. i was told there and drove from us as force is headed. one was still hovering above the sea the boom are not controlled by any guide the bus before where ever we hates them jared are rushed to argue violence. i spoke with medical costs now. i don't know man of the home has killed eighty people. now it
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will live on the fifth congress. his doctor says he harried everyday she'd feel to be in the aftermath of these as i was the men and men. every day every day grab every day. syrian troops the fourteen control over western parts of the cd they are attacking the red will help the east for fom the hair found on the floor on one of those being. if i get back and forth with such force it for one. lucky boy in the rebel held area i tried to avoid being hit by sniper. they've got two holes inside building will add warmth to them. the command to fire a meaty damaged by exposure. the ncc is being cut for more than a month
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when will people only had rain water today. many say they have no choice but to leave here. in a moment now we don't have electricity or water. the government's conduct. this is our homeland we don't want to leave she then go to school even as the fighting. it's the war has cast a dark shadow and light. the eighteen year old mother of god. they're doing is paint a picture of the war with iran. people being taxed bleeding and killed. help me there are things she enjoys every day to call with difficulties of late. war is on paper helps hard to escape the violence of poetry and art on a boat on a beautiful
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drapes. the new family. is he all of this. she says she wants to become a professional artist juan de lint. i was trying to explain what's happened to know what's happening now the people will buy that goal are dealing with the fire bombs being dropped from the air above them. on the ground. sniper attacks and new cost of fighting life isn't easy. many here are just doing what they can to stop by. changi village go for an anti war. i let go see it. residents of bangkok are facing an increasingly volatile situation as anti government protests continue the latest incident saw shots fired early wednesday in parts of the downtown
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district concerns over the security situation are mounting across the capital with gunshots and sporadic explosions fast becoming the new norm for the city. no one was wounded in the shootings which happened near road junctions anti government protesters have been occupying for several weeks. it's still not clear who fired the shots wednesday's incidents followed deadly violence over the weekend on sunday a grenade exploded in a busy business and shopping district near a protest site three people died including two children. more than twenty others were wounded another bomb in an anti government protests killed two including a five year old girl and wounded more than thirty people in trucks province in the country's east on saturdays. about two thousand anti government protesters rallied outside the national police headquarters on wednesday many are increasingly concerned about security
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the cost of the incidents we had to change the way you look. people have stopped bringing the kids. at least twenty people have been killed since the protests intensified in november last year. the conflict between opponents and supporters of prime ministry election a walk and her brother they exiled former prime minister thaksin to know what it has divided time and over the past decade attacks in the administration introduced policies favoring farmers which help them secure votes in the pot in this north and northeast. there is left behind by the nation's economic boom. the anti government protesters are mainly members of the urban middle class in the league they say the stimulus policies are an attempt to buy votes and are undermining time and finances. a tropical system is hovering over guam our meteorologist roberts pena has more than robert plus it was carried into this and what is happening down here i'd just southeast
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of guam at this time bring in some up. showers across the islands these outer rain bands and it is gonna be hovering here for the next several days it was the biggest probably trouble impression that this time next expected become a tropical storm in the next twenty four hours and if it isn't quite done having a tropical storm in the month of february but actually thus far this year. this would become the third named storm system likely getting the cold facts side as it does drift off here solely towards the west and that's the biggest problem though it is just sitting here over the rest of the week and possibly into the weekend as well and that is as good a brain that heavy rainfall out there in much of the mary island so you look at the risk of flooding also gusty winds. i searched near the beach is definitely something you want to keep an eye on the monitor here through the coming days let's look by the corps was so tropics are quiet across much the philippines over towards the village on the peninsula then towards the door. well we are seeing a low pressure area move across japan the seedlings of dollars in parts it easy over towards the cocoa from a hundred o hundred and fifty millimeters
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here is very well likely going to the next twenty four hours even expanding out for tokyo on the thursday evening in to friday you could be saying a passing shower or two nothing to hadley likely the last and fifty millimeters but the biggest problem is going to be this southerly flow coming in ahead of its old warming temperatures guess that's good news but the tidal basin to the snowpack has to be quickly melting in the other is the risk of avalanche go along with that plus the systems are also a trained something different not the priests of the patient. but actually in the drier weather in these aerosols in the atmosphere pm two point five we've been talking about all that is still expected to linger through the next several days and is not just a bit with this feeling this and if you have a fever a few of respiratory issues to death only one among watch out if you are anywhere in the reds or the yellows much of the korean peninsula north eastern time is also under these these warnings going to the next several days out here and even extending down there towards the south now spicy captures oh well it is
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relatively warm here on thursday fifteen to nine shanghai tokyo to get the fourteen there will be a cooling trend though into the weekend. basil systems move off the high pressure comes in from the north korean am much more colder here let's see was going on in the western parts of north america here first where california has been suffering from drought lately. elitism rainfall the next several days and actually some pretty considerable route of rainfall in extended on their tours los angeles showers continue to kick up there and farther inland some snow fall thunderstorms in the southeast you these could become severe for your looking at the potential of a twenty oh two nothing too strong likely on the low end of a skill but any tornado can cause some damage in the north snow fall continued push across ontario workforce quebec. from what this whole they are spilling idiotic temperatures gonna be a rather chilly to god with a high of one minus eleven here's your lo's minus seventeen there on your thursday in a while with ford's year. well one systems moving off another one's
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coming and this is going to continue to bring some gusty winds up to the seven km per hour. heavy rainfall as well deftly to be at higher risk by the six meter high winds near coastlines. really the big story though is messy in the west out here jars containing the teacup heavy snowfall across the alpine regions but in the east. you are enjoying some fairly sunny weather here in vienna he will report or so all is a center for christmas. i am to noon. and. i know. i was
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