the decision to suspend ozawa's membership came on tuesday at a meeting of party executives. upper house democratic leader azuma koshiishi said the party should reject any demand from the opposition to summon ozawa for sworn testimony on the case before parliament. prime minister kan said the decision now settles the ozawa issue, which has widened a rift within the dpj. ozawa's supporters have insisted the party should first wait for the outcome of the upcoming trial. kan needs to unite the party to pass the fiscal 2011 budget and related bills in march. >>> a rapidly spreading disease in australia is wiping out the entire population of tasmanian devils. they're one of the most rare animals in the world. but now a new project is under way to save the animal from extinction. >>> now a non-profit organization is restoring the used wheelchairs and sending them to children in developing countries. >> once a month this facility receives children's wheelchairs from the tokyo area. on this day, 55 wheelchairs come in. they had all been customized for children with different disabili

>> on monican finally decided to suspend ozawa's party membership as a penalty. but many people it took too long for him to come to that decision. plus many believe that the punishment is not as strong as kan wanted it to be. he hoped ozawa would leave the democratic party, but he failed to persuade him to do that. people now have doubts about kan's leadership and do not believe in his promise to bring about clean politics in japan. >> now, with your crystal ball, what do you think will happen to prime minister kan in the coming months? >> the survey suggests that more japanese people want to have a general election rather than wait for him to do a better job. seeing that kan is losing more support or kan is becoming even more unpopular, the opposition parties will be less -- even less motivated to cooperate with him. the survey also suggests that liberal democrats are slightly more favorable to voters than the democrats. the dpj's popularity has gone down to 20.2% while the ldp's is sitting at 21.7%. so the ldp could do better in an election. the reality is if k