korea and a plan to contain potential conflict but that didn't affect the personal chemistry trump and abhi appear to have both are also hawkish on defense but trade may be another matter we will seek new opportunities for cooperation and comers and we will partner with friends and allies to pursue a free and open sea think reach we will seek free thing. and research trade the u.s. trade deficit with japan is a sticking point in the country's relations the deficit hit sixty nine billion dollars in two thousand and sixteen the second largest behind china. did have these best in hot is following the u.s. president's trip he told us donald trump shouldn't expect the rest of his asia tour to be as easy going as the first day. it was an easy start for president donald trump here in japan on the first day of his long asia trip a visit to u.s. troops around of golf with japanese prime minister since an informal dinner starting tomorrow things are likely to become a bit more serious even though trump and abhi are pretty much on the same page when it comes to north korea they have a bone or two to p

after his ruling coalition won a landslide victory last month retaining a two thirds super majority abhi is expected to use this renewed political mandate to push for reforms to the country's constitution australia has decided to ban climbers from an iconic sandstone formation in the northern territory starting in two thousand and nineteen lou is considered sacred by the local and mongol community formerly known as ayers rock it is one of the country's most popular tourist destination. and a woman in central pakistan has killed more than seventeen people in a botched attempt to escape a forced marriage police said the suspects boyfriend obtained poison which she mixed into a drink for her husband or her mother in law instead served the tainted milk to dozens of extended family. russia's president vladimir putin is meeting with his iranian counterpart in tehran the talks are focusing on the conflict in syria as moscow eyes a new initiative to end that the six year old civil war both iran and russia want fresh elections in syria featuring current rule of bashar al assad azerbaijan's presid

take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world today japan's shinzo abhi has been reelected prime minister by the country's parliament this after his ruling coalition won a landslide victory last month retaining a two thirds super majority. is expected to use his renewed political mandate to push for reforms to the country's pacifist constitution. well the six hundred asylum seekers have refused to leave an australian immigration camp on an island in papa new guinea the monist island detention center was closed on tuesday after local authorities declared it unconstitutional australia had funded the camp to deter migrants from trying to reach the shores by boat. in sri lanka wildlife protection crews launched a three hour operation to free rather annoyed wild elephants that have been stuck in a well for three days crews used an excavator to cut a path for the elephant to escape and for an extra bit of incentive they chased the animal off with fire it's. russian president vladimir putin is set to meet his a rainy and counterpart house on rouhani in tehran today

happen if you bring down the question for nasa to ask is that this window going to be any different abhiprepared to bend the question now let me just ask you on a meta jyoti showed us how way of measuring the air quality as she was in the house what should it have right to have to clean as a whistle two hundred twenty six two hundred twenty eight what should it be inside your house. so what about inside the house but the quantity we do standard and the twenty four hour should be sixty by to grab a cubic meter they should set sixty or. sixty six but mine is that we have hit in the city but as high as five hundred and will in fact m two point guard levels no more than three hundred which is considered to be the emergency level here so you can imagine what was happening so what we really need to understand is not that kind of a better condition the problem that you have is that gets trapped inside the city and when it gets trapped the pollution that is happening inside the city also get trapped and this is also the difficult part to be in jeopardy this is the time when . the city are also c

trump and prime minister they have grown close as friends trump calling the relationship extraordinary abhi calling trump a precious friend and they have also strengthened the alliance between the two nations to a level not seen before but it's not just. because they like each other after a summit meeting on monday they both underlined why they think that alliance is critical standing together against north korean aggression. the two agreed more pressure needs to be applied to north korea saying that should come from russia and china prime minister announced tougher unilateral sanctions against north korea assets of thirty five people and groups will be frozen. with this onset we have can be how can she just joined us she's out as white house correspondent welcome kimberly to here i am just looking here at trying to spend nine days visiting south east asia study in hawaii and in the philippines how's it going so sa so far so good and it is a grueling schedule i think one of the first two days i counted the president was technically out working for twenty one hours the first day nineteen the

robert mugabe to resign he made his first public appearance since the army takeover on wednesday but abhi attended a graduation ceremony at harare is also called for his wife grace to leap the party the argentine navy is searching for a missing submarine with forty four sailors on board the a r a san juan a german built submarine was last in contact on wednesday and maybe spokesman says it's too early to declare the vessel last. president to territory has made a dramatic policy change in his battle against drug gangs he's ordered local police units to stand out into instead let the government drug enforcement agency take the lead male alynda going to ports from manila president to a very good hitter to so-called warn juggs has been the center of police operations since it took office more than a year ago. but the police have faced mounting criticism and accusations of rampant corruption and human rights abuses. now there is a major shift in the campaign to has ordered all the police drug enforcement units to be disbanded and the philippine jug enforcement agency to take the lead in illega

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to tom he kowtowed to do chief he was a special advisor to the cabinets of shin's abhi and is now a professor at university graduate school joins us live via skype from tokyo professor taniguchi let's talk first about trade between japan and the u.s. president trump said a few hours ago that trade right now between both allies isn't free and it's not reciprocal so what do you think he meant by that well he meant by what he exactly said perhaps to the japanese government should. trade deficit the united states reserve be japan at the moment as opposed to the overall. united states has developed these are the world is less than ten percent it's actually nine point three percent and instead the japanese side over the last twenty five years has continued to invest in the united states and thereby created a stunning number of eight hundred thirty thousand jobs in the united states and that's the sort of thing i think i've been saying to mr tranter and this is the second time that president trump and prime minister be a meeting how is the relationship between the two men i mean when trump was on th

he was president has wrapped up his trip to japan where he met prime minister shinzo abhi at the nuclear threat posed by north korea dominated talks with both feet is agreeing the time for dialogue is over but will trump now had to seoul as part of his twelve day visit to asia scott hartnell reports from tokyo. during his two days in japan there's no question that president trunking prime minister they have grown close as friends from calling the relationship extraordinary calling trump a precious friend and they have also strengthen the alliance between the two nations to a level not seen before but it's not just because they like each other after a summit meeting on monday they both underlined why they think that alliance is critical standing together against north korean aggression. there's no point in dialogue for the sake of dialogue with north korea now is the time not for dialogue but for applying maximum pressure on north korea we completely agreed that for north korea to change its policy japan and the u.s. must take leadership closely collaborating with the international commun