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tariffs will be lowered by 2015 as agreed on by apec and it asks member nations to refrain on raising duties on certain items to protect their domestic industries. >>> the japanese trade minister wants to see more result at the apec meetings in september. >> translator: the asia-pacific region has strong potential. promoting comprehensive economic cooperation in the region is very important in making best use of that potential. >>> positive start for our stock markets open this hour. i'll leave you with a check on those. >>> tokyo electric power company is defending the way it handled the nuclear accident last year. the report counters criticisms made by a government panel. workers have been telling their accounts to the utilities since last june. hydrogen explosions occurred at three reactors after the march earthquake and tsunami knocked out the plants power. workers at the number one reactor didn't know that the emergency cooling valves were closed and the system wasn't functioning. but tepco says it was impossible to check the valves because there was no power. the company says it

the two sides are expected to sign a memorandum of understanding later this week during a meter of apec energy ministers in st. petersburg. >>> japanese researchers are preparing a deep sea search to explore the seabed of north central japan next year. they're looking for large reserves of natural gas or crude oil. the >> this performance pleases the crowd. no matter what she does on stage, singing, acting or acrobatics, she excels. in the world of chinese opera, she is a towering figure. she has devoted herself to chinese opera since she began learning it at the age of 10. now she explores new styles. she hopes they will awaken the interest of young people. >> translator: we can captivate our audience by adding new elements to thoughts and music. but at the same time we preserve traditions. >> reporter: for her next show, she decided to do the "hunchback of notre dame." it's a famous novel by victor hugo of france. a gentle young man with a severely deformed spine falls in love with a dancer, but the story ends in tragedy. the story raises questions about how we value other humans. she

the declaration suggests apec nations study the potential impact of political turmoil stopping the supply of middle eastern crude oil or natural gas. it calls on members to prepare against such an eventuality. >>> american workers are seeing their fortunes change. 6 million jobs left the u.s. since the year 2000. many manufacturers moved production to china and other countries to take advantage of cheaper wages. now, some of those jobs are coming back in a trend that the experts call reshoring. corin snyder explains. >> reporter: knives for the outdoors proudly made in the usa. each piece is manufactured with care and craftsmanship. this company has a long tradition of producing knives, dating back to 1902. the mountain west state of idaho is home to buck knives. chairman chuck buck is a business leader who decided to reshore the production line from china back to america. in the early 2000s, he had no choice but to outsource some production to china because major retailers asked for cost reductions. the company's overseas production peaked in 2008 with 50% of their knives made in china.

the two officials met on the sidelines of the gathering of apec trade ministers in the central russian city of kazan. kirk reiterated that further liberalization of japan's markets inhree categories which are vehicles insurance and beef is a prerequisite for japan joining the tpp negotiations. >> translator: the u.s. request comes from various centers. but japan and the u.s. have agreed to continue talks based on mutual consideration. >> the tpp is seen as a step toward achieving economically liberalized trade in the asia pacific region. meanwhile, in tokyo, japan's new agriculture minister says the government needs to provide the public with more detailed explanations before deciding to take part in tpp negotiations. >> translator: sufficient information has not yet been disclosed. i think the government needs to create more national discussion. >> we are seeing a bit of a rebound on tokyo stock markets this morning. i'll leave you with a check on those numbers. >>> delegates from the international atomic energy agcy will resume talks friday witheprentates of iran. the head of the nuc

this will be reflected in the apec summit scheduled in september. >>> syrian president bashar al assad has said he will continue to use force to suppress anti-government groups. in a televised speech in parliament on sunday, assad accused opposition groups of working with foreign countries in a conspiracy to destroy syria. he expressed his resolve to save the nation and fight what he called terrorism. assad denied his government's involvement in the massacre in houla late last month. more than 100 civilians, mostly women and children, were killed. he said even monsters would not carry out such an attack. syrian troops have been continuing attacks on opposition groups even after u.n. observers can monitoring in april the cease-fire between the two sides. the u.n. estimates more than 10,000 people have been killed since the anti-government protests began last year. the u.n. and arab league envoy kofi annan expressed concern that syria would spiral into an all-out civil war. >>> a passenger plane crashed into a residential district near an airport on sunday in nigeria's largest city, lago

officials from the 21-member apec forum will gather in st. petersburg, russia, on sunday. as the global demand for natural gas has been increasing the forum is expected to agree on boosting the output and trade of natural gas in the region. in the meeting, japan will also explain its position to restart a suspended nuclear power plant, the first to start operating since the accident in fukushima. it will also explain its efforts to ensure nuclear safety. the ministers will issue a st. petersburg declaration at the end of the meeting. >>> one of japan's three big makers of nuclear reactors it turning in a big way to alternative energy. the largest-ever solar project near the fukushima daiichi that it helped to build. the managing director signed a deal with the mayor. the city is just north of the plant. the deal means that toshiba will build power stations along the coast. construction of new houses is banned there, since last year's disaster, because the area is now a tsunami risk zone. the city plans to buy 1.5 million square meters of land and lease it to a venture set

actually penetrate new markets for trade and investment then they're going to be successful certainly the apec summit we had which didn't have a primary focus on companies was i believe successful in that we made some progress in removing trade barriers between countries but there's so much more we can do and i'm going to be encouraging our canadian companies to take a greater interest in the canada russia relationship well and you mentioned political will you mentioned political readiness and the two kinds of course political will it may boost bilateral relations including trade relations but the political relationship between canada and russia hasn't been very active lately so so does that create a problem for business or not. i would say it's always in the business is best interests for the political players in both countries to be engage at a much higher level i should mention that in two thousand and seven our government in canada doctored what we call our global commerce strategy and that global commerce strategy actually has identified russia as one of our priority markets i have the ho

the fragile state of the global economy all right so that's how all stands right now ahead of the apec meeting as i say all lies ahead let's have a look at the russian markets and see that they are holding on to their positions right now i want to talk about credit suisse as we can see you got all t.f. up. in terms of a stand my state's eight tenths of a percent in negative territory right now. let's talk about credit suisse and as i say now. is all russian investors right now because they are due for calls in the price of grain crude to fall to fifty dollars a barrel in the us by the end of the year but that is only if the escalation of the eurozone crisis takes the worst case scenario now in an interview to the u.k. telegraph newspaper the bank's novices said that the current global imbalances or even while worse than at the financial crisis of two thousand and eight just to remind you back then that the price of brant fell over one hundred forty five dollars to below forty dollars per barrel and that was in just half a year. ok let's have the stocks and showing see some of the bigge

the only saving grace of it is the intent requirement that judge ellis grafted onto it during the apec cases so that it's not just that you disclosed secret information but you were actually intending to harm the u.s. or benefit a foreign nation and he would do away with that completely additionally lieberman's legislation would not apply it would just criminalize disclosures of classified information it would kerman allies disclosure of any national security information which is pretty much everything in this country right now where you can sort of connect anything to national security i know the bradley manning case is one that we've talked about extent extensively and it's one that has proven that the information that he you know allegedly leaked to with to wiki leaks the website none of that information has caused any direct threats or you know action against the u.s. . it's talk a little bit about this mentality it is of course not just senator lieberman we put him up as a recent example a lot of people want to do away with whistleblowers what do you think is behind this well i th

keep their production quota on change is the organization of petroleum exporting countries outside apec in that meeting in vienna today at around six pm more scary time so investors are holding tight for that one of the real kind of heavyweights in the oil world really because they account for over forty percent of the production so let's see all prices now is what the situation is and they are dropping as a society is the still hovering around those eight months alone as you can see just as i say they're expected to keep the quarter unchanged and that's because they're going to agree to disagree we had the saudi arabia oil minister he was saying that he would like to see those increase because of supposed law i would like to see a bit of kind of leeway given to the global markets because obviously we've got a sovereign debt crisis going on we've got a slowing growth in the us as well so the price is very much put pressure on those economies when families are going to the pump they hear right so the prices they want to go high for investors so they really get on to the russian markets a

where all countries participate, apec, european institutions to try and build a good data space aboutf the market. >> it would seem as much as you might know about the state of the market, demand factors can change quickly. when we're facing a slowing global growth outlook, it would seem those factors are more important right now maybe than having detail on what happened a month or two ago. >> it depends on the time frame. if you think of demand short term right now, of course, there is a concern about the impact that the economic crisis in europe will have over the overall demand of oil. but long term, and this is something just in this session is, this morning, the outlook for demand is very positive. population growth, economic growth as well -- >> what about this year, what's your forecast for this year? >> this year things seem to be remaining stable. growth in europe. >> do you expect oil prices for that brent oil price, which is about $97 today to move lower in the second half. >> if i only knew -- nobody knows. >> lastly, do you get the sense, because we saw this iae report sh

she directs verizon's activities in international forums, including venues such as the itu, apec, andnternet governance forum. next up is my friend gigi s ohn. she is the president and co- founder of public knowledge that addresses the convergence of policies and ipublic policy law. prior to that, she was with the ford foundation. prior to the ford foundation, she served as the executive director of the media access project. last but of course not least, in this case that is certainly true, we have richard whitt. is the director and managing council of public policy at the counsel ofnagemening public policy at google with a focus on privacy, cyber security, intellectual property, internet governance, competition, free expression, international trade, and telecom and media policy. rick, why not just list the things you are not responsible for at google? rick obviously has important responsibilities in the area we will be talking about today. i might say about rick that when i was practicing law, i hired him right out of law school for his first job as a lawyer. i think that was 1988. >