, nations in the asia pacific nations in the asia pacific region will face a super aging society like that of japan. we would like to establish a social security system that is sustainable for japan's aging society where birth rates are low. i would like japan to be a role model for other countries in the region. >> about 40 member states meet every four years to discuss employment issues and economic policies. noda also said japan's economic policies in the last decade have focused too much on the market with little regard to their impact on employment. he added the current government led by the democratic party wants to create jobs to counter people's concerns and promote economic growth. >>> christmas season's in full swing in japan and the stars are glittering with festive decorations. these hand-sewn snowmen, hearts and christmas stockings are simple designs but they come with an inspirational story. all the decorations are made by a group of women who lost their jobs to the march 11th earthquake and tsunami. on "the road ahead" we look at how these ornaments helped the women ove

that may also effect trading in asia pacific region as well. i'll have all the market reactions next monday morning when we'll know more about the eu summit. for now, back to you. >> all right, we will keep an eye on those agency indicators today. thanks a lot, ramin mellegard. back to the main news with katheri katherine. >> thanks very much. >>> iran released a tv image of what it says is a downed u.s. stealth drone. if true, it would be a rare chance to examine u.s. military technology. the image shows no significant damage to the vehicle. iran announced on state media it had shot down a spy plane that entered air space on the eastern border with afghanistan. u.s. forces in afghanistan admitted an unmanned drone was missing. iran's foreign ministry denounced intrusion to the swiss ambassador that represents u.s. interests in the country. >>> japan decided to take additional steps to hold iran's continued nuclear program in check. the government has drawn up further financial sanctions against the country. the move follows last month's report

happy asia-pacific american week. thank you. [applause] >> and i heard the supervisor kim has joined us. thank you for being here. >> i look at david and jan and i would not be here if it were not for them. you have heard the professional side of it. 20 years ago, i was a very young reporter in montgomery, alabama, and our -- they decided, they had come out to san francisco and decided that they needed someone that looked just like her, and i was the only one in the newsroom in montgomery, alabama that look like her. do you know they forced me to do this show, and that started me on my road to coming out to san francisco and the bay area to live and work here and become part of the community. i thank jan for that. i had no idea who she was, but that is how i got my start in the coming out to california. on a quick personal note, 10 years ago, she says she works out, but she really just kind of talk to people on the machine at certification, asked a fellow should in london, and she said she had a single friend she got really need

. >> yeah, charles, interesting in asia-pacific, there was a much stronger reaction to that s&p downgrade. perhaps that had something to do with the fact that the u.s. markets came off from their highs once that was announced but certainly sent jitters pretty much through all the markets through asia-pacific. after several positive sessions they all fell and banking stocks taking a hit and australian stocks broadly lower after the central bank there had a warning. they cut interest rates by 0.25 to 4.25%. it is the second time in as many months that australia cut rates to stabilize the economy, so the fears about growth are outweighing the optimism that an interest rate cut will get the economy going again. out of japan this tuesday, trading of olympus was investigated after investigation of their recent cover-up found in evidence of criminal participation and by that time the cameramaker was up 9% on the nikkei but olympus didn't come out looking too bright from this. this is what the independents said, the core of management was rotten and surrounding management was contaminated talking

billion dollars to one hundred eighty three billion by two thousand and fifteen they also expect the asia pacific region to overtake the current biggest market the united states in just two years russia though plays only a small part due to strength not just lesions. and that's all the latest from the business team for now but you can always find a lot more stories they're online for you at our. business. oh i see. it's all designed to keep you closed in your small world as a prison. you know you leave somebody in there for a couple hours like in the stress positions. you have this fear of the unknown in this stress sort of building and. i've seen interrogations go on ten twelve hours they chose songs i remember from marilyn manson. slayer the two songs would be angel of death and raining blood to me those are war coming up here into iraq into baghdad. johnny pull the bodies to the floor just the rock n roll band is fitting for the job we're doing. the close of team has been on the black sea coast for future developments depends on the good way. no party goes area first place too many find champi

clinton's visit shows the importance the obama administration places on the asia pacific region. at the same time, china is expanding its presence in this part of the world. myanmar is a step towards democracy has provided united states with opportunity to reespecially gauge with the countries. from myanmar side, it has desire of more productive relationship with the united states. it sees that as a way of growing its economy. myanmar has been a close country and has been one of the poorest in the south asia region. they have resources like natural gas and a cheap labor force. for the government of myanmar, democratization is the means of getting sanctions lifted and encouraging investment from overseas. on friday clinton is planning to meet with pro-democracy leader. the meeting will be high profile chan chance, she will want to move in step with united states to put pressure on the myanmar government to continue the reforms. the momentum towards democracy is being driven by international and domestic forces and is becoming increasingly irreversible. >>> china has been urmging t

clinton's visit impacts the importance the obama administration places on the asia pacific region. at the same time, china is expanding its presence in this part of the world. myanmar's step toward democracy have provided united states with opportunity to reengage with the countries. from myanmar's side, its house brought desire and -- relationship with united states. it sees that as a way of growing its economy. myanmar has been a closed country and is one of the poorest in the southeast asia region. myanmar has a lot of resources including natural gas as well as a cheap labor force. for the government of myanmar democratic is a means of getting sanctions lifted. on friday, clinton is planning to meet with pro-democracy leadi leading aung sun suu kyi. she will likely want to move in step with the united states to put pressure on the myanmar government to continue the reforms. the momentum toward democracy is being driven by both international and domestic forces. and it is becoming increasingly irreversib irreversible. >> that was jun kobayashi reporting from nepito. to lift sanct

we have a lot at stake in the asia pacific region. 21st century will be about the asia pacific region. i have to say that, you know, afghanistan is not our future as a country. and iraq realistically is not our future as a country. our future is how well prepared we are to compete in the 21st century. that's economics. that's education. and that's going to play out across the pacific ocean. >> would you tell china and -- or is our hand not strong enough to tell china stop looking at our drone technology in iran or the helicopter that went down in the bin laden raid, that the pakistanis showed the chinese. they don't act like an ally of the u.s. it sunts seem like because of the debt situation we have the ability to tell them to jump off a cliff. >> they're not an ally of the united states and we should never assume that they are. we have a very transactional relationship. we have a very competitive relationship. they're going to play every angle they can against us to learn more about what we're doing and what we're up to and what our leading technologies are. and they're going to try

refocus throughout the asia pacific saying that the asia pacific -- that the u.s.re and is going to remain here with the drawdown of troops in iraq, the drawdown of troops in afghanistan. they're actually putting more troops into the region. even boots in the ground in australia. many interpreted that as a continuing effort by the u.s. to try to contain china's rise. on the chinese side, china has stated ambition is to become the prepond rapt power, and we know that there are disputes between china and other countries in the region about territory, about disputed islands and so on. this is a critical relationship, how china and the united states will try to work together and bring stability and will see a real ratcheting up or much more of a focus on that key relationship, a real defining period here. >> one thing that strikes me about this, stan, after kim jong il had his stroke back in august of 2008, he did look frail, he did look weak. but he seemed to have got better. he seemed to -- he had lost weight. he seemed to be a little bit more vibrant. certainly on t

asia. we are monitoring a tropical depression over the pacific.t's moving in a westerly direction, headed toward the southern philippines. and it could become a tropical storm within the next 24 hours. so stormier conditions are expected in the southern portions into the weekend. up toward the north a large system is bringing chilly weather across most of china. the exception is across the inland area you may see some showers developing today. and across japan our low pressure system is moving through the northern nation, bringing heavy snow to hokkaido. we're expecting up to 30 centimeters of snow by friday morning. blowing snow conditions are also possible here. and rain is falling by the tohoku regs. and some of the precipitation will turn to snow starting tonight. and strong winds are creating high waves along the west coast. but it's a difference for the opposite side of the country. it will stay largely dry. temperaturewise, warming up nicely in tokyo. we expect it to be 16 degrees. feels like mid november. but cold air will continue to sag

we have a lot at stake in the asia pacific region. 21st century will be about the asia pacific regione rising military powers. i have to say that, you know, afghanistan is not our future as a country. and iraq realistically is not our future as a country. our future is how well prepared we are to compete in the 21st century. that's economics. that's education. and that's going to play out across the pacific ocean. >> would you tell china and -- or is our hand not strong enough to tell china stop looking at our drone technology in iran or the helicopter that went down in the bin laden raid, that the pakistanis showed the chinese. they don't act like an ally of the u.s. it sunts seem like because of the debt situation we have the ability to tell them to jump off a cliff. >> they're not an ally of the united states and we should never assume that they are. we have a very transactional relationship. we have a very competitive relationship. they're going to play every angle they can against us to learn more about what we're doing and what we're up to and what our leading technologies are.

mediator for peace on the peninsula by pushing for negotiations if you want to live or in the asia pacific region this serious potential for conflict and there's no alternative but to set up dialogue and improve understandings between this saw you in twenty ten new bugs blew up around the north with talk of the possible next leader that's when kim john on became a four star general and first moved into my mind to take over for his father oversaw tensions reach its highest point in decades after the north launched an artillery strike that left four dead south korea continues to hold marj value war games with the u.s. and japan and want to conflict would break out if another attack was launched now came john on a young and inexperienced leader is apple hound and will either open the door or continue to keep it shot. this roadway station was built in two thousand and two with hopes of connecting seoul and palin yang but the north korean regime backed out at the last minute making this the last stop train heading back into the south now with kim jong il to their new power that perhaps soon we

the foreign minister said settling affairs in the asia-pacific region requires china's full participation. he added that japan has no plans to encircle or exclude china and that it is important to make joint efforts to secure peace and prosperity of the region. >>> the visit of a japanese ship serves as a sign of those efforts. a destroyer will make a port call in china next week, the first in three years. the visit is part of military exchanges between the two countries. the defense ministry says the destroyer "kirisame" will arrive in the northern city of qingdao on monday and will stay for five days. the ship's crew members will make a courtesy visit to a chinese warship. the ship's crew will then visit "the kirisame." the two sides will also conduct communications exercises. japan and china began holding naval exchanges in 2007 to improve relations in order to offset any unexpected incidents. the exchange was not held last year. in september a chinese trawler collided with two japanese patrol ships off japan's senkaku islands in the east china sea. relations between the two countries

we discussed our diplomacy in the asia pacific region and the united states announcements about that region in recent weeks, and in that regard, i'm particularly welcoming secretary clinton's recent visit to berma to see freedom there and see production that furthers the goal which is important. i'll visit in early january, and we will remaybe in close contact with the u.s. on this issue as in all other issues i mentioned in the coming months. in all areas, britain does not have a more important ally than the united states, and i look forward to all our work together over the coming year, and that is as effective and durable as it has been this year and so many other years before it. thank you very much, indeed. >> thank you. >> [inaudible] >> thank you. two questions for you. first, secretary hague, you i know you said not changing the relationship with the e.u., but do you believe that the british government's decision on the euro zone diminishes the influence in europe and perhaps in the world, and a question for both of you -- secretary hague, you said you welcome the investigati

come and say, that meeting in san francisco with all of those important people from across the asia-pacific region said something that had never been said before. they did not just as there that involving women was a good thing to do or the right thing to do. they put their heads together and came up with a declaration committing themselves to really tackle the obstacles, because it will benefit the people we all represent. and then we need to measure our progress to be sure that we are tracking what we care about. we obviously do that in our own lives, but it is important we do it across our countries and our regions. and i am sure that if we leave this summit and go back to our governments and our businesses and focus on how we are going to improve employment, bring down national debts, create greater trade between us, tackling all of that, and always in the back up our mind keep in focus what more can we do to make sure women contribute to those results, we will see progress, and we will be in the lead and not only serving -- not only asserting what we think should be done, but in measur

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