the dense smog in eastern china is starting to lift today but here in beijing it's starting to approach levels. the east and north of china are particularly vulnerable in winter, and we're really just getting into the coldest month. ian williams, nbc news, beijing. >>> when we come back, the latest test for lindsey vonn as she puts her sights on the olympics. >>> the scene today in alberta, canada, as lindsey vonn passed one more milestone on her way to the winter olympics in sochi, russia. vonn came in 11th in today's world cup downhill race, a big improvement over her finish yesterday, this is her first competition since tearing two ligaments in her knee last february and another injury last month. >>> and the results are in tonight, after another competition we've been following involving a young american woman who made it to the very end, finishing among the top three in a most unlikely contest. nbc's duncan golestani was watching it all in beirut. >> reporter: she might not have come first tonight but jennifer grout has won hearts across the arab world. to understand why the boston

every small is affecting large parts of eastern china and some parts of northern china today. the national meteorological center has issued an onslaught from work today as katie's continues to show me the eastern areas include cause of gents to joe jones on weight and the bay provinces which have been affected for nearly a week the capital beijing is experiencing had the small today with the pm two point five reading exceeding three hundred this afternoon. it means the era in the cd is seriously polluted in the financial hole shot on high air quality has improved to water pollution. it has been suffering had the small but nearly a week and weeks extremely hazardous levels on friday. the good news is that i call fun with gale force winds is expected to sweep ton on sunday and clear away the small forecasters say lingering small in the country's central and eastern areas is expected to clear. on monday. whether typically brings the worst air pollution in china that's due to an increase in the burning of coal for homes and forcing the heating systems. government officials from bei

the dense smog in eastern china is starting to lift today but here in beijing it's starting to approachels. the east and north of china are particularly vulnerable in winter, and we're really just getting into the coldest month. ian williams, nbc news, beijing. >>> when we come back, the latest test for lindsey vonn as she puts her sights on the olympics. ooh, homemade soup! yeah... [ male announcer ] campbell's homestyle soup with farm grown veggies. just like yours. huh. [ male announcer ] and roasted white meat chicken. just like yours. [ male announcer ] you'll think it's homemade. i love this show. [ male announcer ] try campbell's homestyle soup. [ male announcer ] you'll think it's homemade. i love this show. well l adie [ male announcer ] you'll think it's homemade. i love this show. s, now in controlling your overactive bladder symptoms. the new oxytrol for women patch. the first and only over the counter treatment for overactive bladder. put the control back in your go with new oxytrol for women. now in the feminine care aisle. i'm bethand i'm michelle. and we own the paper co

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the sea of japan coast line dry off your toys he is creating a start to dry up and then much of eastern china stained well relatively dry and called out here. that's the big topic out towards the west it is called surge in place have pictures of him dropping down hong kong to find sixteen taipei at sixteen parts of northern va january and get here. shanghai's seven insulin syrup you wanna go somewhere warm. had cell that's the third of the advice i give you right now it was that thing down here to don a little bit too high. in fury of australia this time of year is typically warm but there's a weather pattern has set up and been in place for several days now and that's been wrongly that one or down towards the southeast so parts of victoria over course new south wales southern australia. you better keep advisories. even mel bourne train services in many metropolitan services had been canceled due to the extreme heat that are currently ongoing. at least thursday. these other reported forty three in there i'm now born the thirty nine that good news. it does look like or can start to see a gradu

shipping traffic really is to have a rough go at it as the head over here towards the west as far as eastern china korea and much of the tropics. all they are at the peak of the big topic of going into your weekend of the strong northerly winds making for very breezy conditions northern philippines you. gale warnings in place some years the cia spies four meter high winds near the coast in even a frost advisories are in effect for northern portions of thailand so is a really good the chilly out here these are your high seventeen their hong kong taipei at fifteen beijing and seoul only two in one bus i was going on in the americas korea also talking about some still on his own freezing rain freezing rain warning is currently in effect in upstate new york this will press serious movie in overhead that can block or disease. this is not a big topic i think in the next forty eight hours though it's the solo over a year towards the west riding along the same jet stream. but what's happening this one has a lot more moisture. it's feeding into the cold air from the north. in order to be seen widespread se

we have been reporting on the air pollution air quality has been quite bad in the eastern china and in fact the air quality index has reached the highest of the words being part of its current highest bullock and tim than expected this high pressure system will continue to secure it and continued to compress the air so there is no factor to spread the air pollution simulate the clean cut man is insight into the foreseeable future and a break. and this is the moment he spent the lot of heavy rain coming down over the eastern half of the philippines an eastern parts of the indochina and mom and when heavy rain with amal a painted line north it's not strep and it acts as a heavy rain caused the deadly landslides ignore the ninth round. now talking about a tropical low we have another one over that the open goal. this is bringing a lot of heavy rain of baby back to the eastern part of a three run capped and this will continue to intensify become a tropical fruit on the next several days. the more heavy rain is likely for eastern parts of the non threat. i excuse me three one kept the lands

of the problem with this though is that it is creating these very cold winds in eastern china so we're top of the air pollution yet again and well as some areas there in around saying i know but port's beijing already the ear indices audience that unhealthy to severe level so he really wanted the careful in and across areas if you have respiratory issues northeast monsoon still dominating the match with south east coasts the philippines who are seeing some light rain showers. nothing too severe enough to organize there but we do have a a while. a tropical wave there in the southern thailand and also worked with malaysian this is the party because some from some fairly severe flooding last several days in the years have seen well over three hundred millimeters of rainfall there still is a very high risk of flooding also went twice with this one it is to be tapering off out towards the weekend but i think a lot as we stood here will be fed into a new developing storm there that's been lingering just wears the social aka than this could be in the next like like storm if it does continue d

towards the east by the doors the west of high pressure does continue to dominate much of central eastern china. that's to be staying in place here the northeast monsoon in the tropics well as to bring some scattered showers across the philippines especially the southern philippines the size and that now even seen some of scattered afternoon thunderstorms top up their similar conditions offered to portions of all we set off a pile in bangkok are the cloudy skies at five thirty one there for you here on your wednesday. alice ago that the americans was going on over here well the big topic has been this winter storm has set up to rile up much as we can replace the scene some sort of still full of year well be somebody look at some fairly significant snowfall if you're around washington dc even off their tours of arts new york city and the boston some significant snowfall going here on your wednesday morning but i received tuesday morning that's going to quickly move up there it was a northeast of improving conditions and working its way in the ida still some lake effect snow will be setting up ye

if you are in eastern china where the air quality is quite pour acts each a hike on hazardous level at this time while the windsor to stay calm and sunny there but it's not really to be stirred up towards the south tropics quite quiet at this time thirty two free time until afternoon thunderstorm still popping up here though going through your love for the rest of the week the single cover for the americas and one the eastern seaboard were still talk about this storm system that brought widespread freezing rain all the way from texas oft was the northeast and power outages with that over two thousand flights have to cancel out of it well. now it's time to push off along the eastern coastline still looking at the threat of freezing rain through your monday morning it should be tapering off most of its gonna start to change over the reins. southern quebec heavy snow fall out here though on some ears can see about fifteen centimeters accumulating during a monday it's not all over though baskin loft was ne cool there's been a surgeon in that lake effect snow to really start to set up a cor

even northern be an auntie saw some snow fall into three zones diocese and polls coming out of eastern china where the schools they're out on today. in some areas were closed due to that heavy and persistent still fall causing some white out conditions now all that energy. it's pulling off your towards the north the society in pack much of a western japan summer that cia fact still be impacted portions of eastern korea and then allied with the preset outlook here it's pushing just south of ponce you a lot of this ability rainfall during the day granted and especially their roster cuckoo read along pacific coastline. but going into those evening hours topic is going to drop this to be dragging more eerie and from the north that all the air and if you take a look here evening forecasts twelve months of the comp so plain you do it then that snow fall including tokyo to close your eyes to water the more likely is to shift over the reader least the rain stills makes that sleet mixed in there but northern ca so you could be seeing a lot and said the leaders of that accumulation especially of cours

we have high pressure dominating out here but see this cloud cover forming right there on the eastern china. that's gathering them with the coming of the philippines which has been bring in some wet weather down there for you. these two are combined and develop a new storm system first across southern japanese island to look at some thunderstorms that is to move across much of mainland japan all their course and when he is tokyo during the afternoon hours on thursday you're looking at some rain showers as well as this moves away though the high nickel strong northwesterly winds the setting up in some while morse effect snow is also going to be out there in your forecasts of things then called off for as often or time outs no we get yet again here in the northern hemisphere. change up a lot of talk about the southern hemisphere season photos coming out of sydney people celebrating christmas out here out on the beach adventures in tonight's one is the low thirties for many of you and clouding over there towards darwin to know that thirty two there for a hike in the venom for thirty five. by s

this system the eastern continent in the south the air stagnation in the clinician care across eastern china doesn't look like it's going to be a relief in sight in the near future with high pressure system christine overheads mix the peanut can be seen in epc conditions here but a lot of races happening here in japan. a couple of the systems are affecting the pull of the country with thunderstorms. gale force who brings him a report of the hunted fifteen km per hour were of queens in octopus in the prefecture anaconda ten newton meters of rainfall that has almond pass up a twenty four hours in the course of twenty four hours and fifty millimeters of rain falling here in the prefecture of the spelling an hour and this is and is now making its way trekking towards the east to the conservation and will be affecting central and northern japan across the it throughout the day today. but dad could get news is is that talent under the sea new rainfall moderate ne to se in token enterprise the nation for two weeks. they mimic like they may be having that welcoming rain here with some entries were f

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pastor to heavy rains knitting into southern japan we have an area of the rainy weather over south eastern china and the northern areas of the indochina finance law no one hundred millimeters of rain has been observed in several places two hundred millimeters and time honored to be spitting into southern japan in the next twenty four dollars an additional one hundred fifty millimeters is possible in the oak in our region watch out for flooding in swaziland skies. and it's yours as follows eleven degrees and check in with sunny skies with greasy conditions. still you how to sing about zero over after several days finally going to fit me because i knew monday looking quite chilly and channel nine at eight and fifteen degrees for you and hongkong. across the americans had the snow effect did that go with the air and ground travelers in the north east. but as a casino priest a position at this moment the heavy snow maker is now located over the canadian air times additional forty centimeters of snow plus cost of the one hundred thirty km mark could make a plan to house the best lighting conditions a

nazis somewhere then used a cold front is going strong winds and rain feeding up a heavy smoke in eastern china including counseling on clay in nineteen games don't still be small they let this be downgraded from humans fear is bred to orange sauce is the one at kindergartens and schools are free at them all to be suspended for two days high with the balls to be reopened. what a full costs to say that cool fumble strengthen this week needing to troughs in temperatures of up to eight degrees celsius in and to the north of the said fund reaches both the youngs the river. enjoy this release a national plan to tackle climate change the central government in teaching has ordered local governments at all that the office to carry out the strategy. the pine terrifies time is going ideally team principals in adapting to climate change and its products into the loo roll times by setting goals and cost of putting forth supporting measures a regional structure poetics the strategy is now before due to the finance agriculture forestry and me to go to court the pumpkins the implementation. well that was our

allegations online plus details of how small gooden schools have seen classrooms abandoned in the eastern china and how artificial rain could be used to dilute the country's suffocating pollution. a radical islamist rebel group in syria has given its terms to releasing twelve christian nuns held hostage since monday the extremists want the syrian government to free a thousand women from prison so far there's been no comment from damascus regarding the demand the nuns were seized from amman street during an opposition or so on a predominantly christian time islamic extremists have been increasingly targeting the christian minority in syria the country's ambassador to the un told r.t. that some foreign powers have influence over the kidnappers we ask the security council members. to act immediately and to shoulder their responsibilities in order to make pressure on those states and governments who may have influence over these terrorist groups so that they would be released without any condition of the norms and the orphans we should make a petition actually on the saudi government. and the qatar

allegations online plus details of how small the written schools and seeing classrooms abandoned in eastern china and how artificial rain could be used to dilute the country's suffocating pollution. to algeria and so you had been held by the u.s. for more than a decade without charge or trial at guantanamo bay have only learned but the men were strongly against being sent back to our cheerier where they fear being persecuted by the authorities or targeted by extremists artes and see chalk and as more. at a glacial pace u.s. officials attempt to move forward with the limbo known as guantanamo with endless excuses and a web of bureaucracy allegedly getting in the way of just closing the place down in the latest attempt to take baby steps to figure out what to do with its detainees the u.s. has transferred two prisoners to their home country of algeria out of one hundred sixty four the majority of whom have long been cleared for transfer or release this sort of a petri you should was involuntary and took place despite the detainees pleas to not have this happen is they feared mistreatment or torture

from us online and the details of how small britain schools have seen classrooms have banded in eastern china it's been a longstanding problem there but now how artificial rain could be used they think to dilute the country's suffocating pollution. right the scene. first for you and i think you're. on a reporter's twitter. instagram. on . a radical islamist rebel group in syria has given its terms now for elise and twelve christian nuns held hostage since monday the extremists want the syrian government to free a thousand women from prison in exchange so far there's been no comment from damascus regarding the demand that arms were seized from on a street during an opposition assault on a predominately christian town and islamic extremists have been increasingly targeting the christian minority in syria the country's ambassador to the u.n. told r.t. that some foreign powers serve influence over the kidnappers. we ask the security council members. to act immediately and to shoulder their responsibilities in order to make pressure on those states and governments who may have influence over these

and details about small britain schools of seeing classrooms abandon eastern china and how artificial rain now they think could maybe be used to dilute the country's ongoing suffocating pollution. right the city. first for you and i would think that your. recorders twitter. and instagram. would be in the. developments in a story of in following a week of videos emerged of twelve syrian and lebanese nuns held hostage since monday by radical islamist rebel groups in the clip broadcast by al-jazeera one of the women said they were all in good health and would be released in two days the nuns were seized from him on a street during opposition assault on a predominately christian town the rebels holding them hostage at earlier demand of the damascus free a thousand women from prison in exchange the christian minority in syria's been increasingly targeted by opposition extremists. meantime in pakistan's capital hundreds have protested against american drone strikes the rally was staged by the terry care in south party led by the former cricket star can demonstrators chanted anti u.s. slogan

allegations online from us and details of how small good schools have seen classrooms have banded in eastern china as a long running problem but now they're thinking about artificial rain maybe could be used to dilute the country's suffocating problem that. right see. first rate. and i think you're. on a reporter's twitter. instagram. a radical islamist rebel group in syria has given its terms now for releasing twelve kristie and nuns held hostage since monday in exchange the extremist want the syrian government a free one thousand women from prison so far there's been no comment from damascus regarding that demand for another season of monsters or an opposition assault dominantly kristie in town their islamic extremist of an increasingly targeting the christian minority in syria the country's ambassador to the u.n. told r.t. that some foreign powers have influence over the kidnappers. we ask the security council members and the secretary to act immediately and to shoulder their responsibilities in order to make a push out on those states and governments who may have influence over these terrorist

allegations online also there details of how small written schools are seeing classrooms abandoned in eastern china and artificial rain could be used to dilute the country's suffocating pollution. the u.s. energy giant chevron has regimes searching for shale gas in the remaining village that's been the center of anti fracking protests for over two months local newspapers say up to forty demonstrators were beaten by police for setting up next to the fields targeted for drilling shale gas is extracted by pumping toxic fluid into the ground and the fear is that chemicals it contains accumulate in the soil water and even air after evaporating into the atmosphere let's go live now to paul cohen he's a member of the young greens which is a branch of the green party. he joins us at the moment i. know we've heard paul thank you for coming on to the program we've heard the dangers of fracking they are well known but why is this technique why does it appear that it's still being paraded by world governments. i think the reason that governments are so interested in it is because of the vested interests that s

delegations online also online to details of how small when schools are in classrooms are banned in eastern china for a long standing problem but now they're thinking about artificial rain to be introduced to try to loot some of the country's suffocating pollution interested reader r.t. dot com. thousands of fast food and retail workers in the united states staged national strike on thursday calling for an increase to the minimum wage president obama pledged to push for higher salaries in the industry back in february but critics say that has been done since reporter was at the protest in new york. began here in new york city one year ago with just two hundred employees has exploded into arguably the biggest wave of protest in the history of america's fast food industry thousands of fast food employees in more than one hundred cities throughout this country have walked off the job thursday demanding an increase in minimum wage and the right to unionize now this movement is being spearheaded by an organization called fast food forward and the fast food workers that have joined the strike work at m

china has begun to challenge the regional order. the problems in the eastern south china seas are such examples. >> a challenge for shinzo abbe and joe biden is how to play their hand as mixed signals are given out. china said japan was the target of the new zone. they said it is neither a no fly zone nor territorial air space. can joe biden discover the real reasons behind the power play. only a gambling man would lay money on what china is thinking. >> the vice president next stop will be china, and he heads to south korea. >> the 85-year-old american war veteran held in north korea is in good condition - that's according to a swedish diplomat who visited him. merrill newman was taken captive more tan a month ago as he was about to take off on his plane after a tourist visit. authorities say they are holding him to investigate war crimes. he was shown on north korean television, reading what korean officials said was an apology. the u.s. is calling for his release. >> pope francis is urging catholics to pray for those with aids. the pontiff addressed a crowd

and we have two correspondents and we are standing by in central chile and rob is in chile in eastern chinaere is rob's report. >> reporter: copper dugout of the ground in south america arriving at the final destination at the other side of the world in china. with high quality meeting high demand it's a natural trade. >> translator: chile is the top exposure of high-quality copper and china has a rapidly growing demand giving the pace of industrialization. >> reporter: founded in 1990 far east cable has grown up as china opened up and is now facilitating its further growth providing copper cable for power distribution. one of the company's most resent investments, this automated plant uses some of the world's latest technology able to produce around 20 kilometers of high-voltage cable everyday and most to supply china's growing demand for copper. the super condatabasing tif qualities that make it the metal of chose for power distribution and half of the copper imported goes in the power industry which still has a long way to grow with china using about a 5th as much electricity per capita

western northern part of china the property market with the eastern part of china the cut and docile distribution. the type of large men of long distance transportation. the downtown district of them cannot be the market demanded all to park my bike transportation is that they could not have time to market. only about twenty large logistics transportation company really count but two percent of market share in the field manufactured in china the logistic systems which are typically owned companies use its data showed that the party was to take one lead over twenty five percent on the market. japan america reports indicated seventy percent. the market lacking competition would not be approved. also the height and cuban trade has been a major proper height. for some first tier cities like shanghai situation. well according to data by china's ministry of commerce to doubt the left hand delivery trucks and high thirty seven percent. three kinds of europe and america the high and low trade resulting gridlock. it does lead one to hire a guangdong province and have often thought about thirt

what they described would come in a war, wiped out hundreds of millions of people in russia, eastern europe, china, you see. and as kennedy walked out of the room he said to dean rusk, the secretary of state, and we call ourselves the human race. he just was horrified at the thought that there could be such a conflict, and he would be the responsible person to he was the one who is going to pull the trigger. he didn't want any of them to have that control. he reserved for himself and, of course, the ultimate moment in that regard was in the cuban missile crisis when they wanted to bomb and invade, and he, with mcnamara's help and advice, he was ordered to diplomacy which resolve that crisis peacefully. he held the joint chiefs at arms length to that crisis, and at the end of it, he called them in to show the a certain deference. they came in and they said to him, mr. president, you've been had. was just deciding those missiles in case. the white house leaked this to the press. khrushchev then wrote kennedy, i don't live in a cave. i'm no caveman. well, they had a plan to drop a nuclear bomb on cub

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i am not sure here his advisor said we would export to the eurozone, china, japan, eastern europe -- am not sure they laid that out or even thought about that, at that is what you have to do, because everybody wants to export. nobody wants to import. >> that is true. >> unfortunately, that trends toward protectionism, which is the unfortunate implication. >> which is the opposite effect. >> exactly. >> great to see you. i got my honey. >> you are a honey. you get your honey. bloombergilling, our columnist. to read more of his columns go to bloomberg.com/view. ♪ >> first. bloomberg. >> you are watching "in the loop ," live on bloomberg television and streaming on your phone, tablet, and on bloomberg.com. . good morning. i am betty liu. the gray television is on the markets. equity futures right now are very -- bloomberg television is on the markets. equity futures right now are very little changed. we will have the kroger cfo in about 30 minutes. in the making,rs but the volker rule might finally be realized. treasury secretary jack lew will discuss details of the final volker rule in

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population and african americans and people of color and heavily on the eastern neighborhoods in the city and a little bit up there in china down toun and tenderloin and other spots. >> that is correct. so in terms of the a sugar that we are consuming, average americans are consuming about 22 teaspoons a day and recommended that men not have more than 9 teaspoons and women and children 3. >> for a 20 ounce. >> i was looking at the can assuming that people are still drinking the cans and not the 20 ounceers. even the small size would blow that recommendation out for the day. the graphic just represents that and roberto was get to go that as well in terms of the fact that sugar drinks really impact our entire system, every part of our body. we don't have a lot of information on the impact on oral health . we know it impacts oral health. children under the age of one have a tremendous increase in dental carries. the children are among the heaviest consumers of sugary drinks. that becomes an issue because the phosphorous can lead to

here across eastern a chef in a high pressure system dominating much of china and that will be stagnating the air. this piece of the bad air quality will be remaining in place the clinician will be hazardous and teaching an unhealthy level in shanghai that matter because he will be even pulling down to force a nerang ninja type in stock also the courts to issue will be in that hunting. much of northern thailand with us iorthern thailand. so is also famous as seen in my eye in much of the sea of japan side of this country with up to thirty centimeters postulate hobble to thirty centimeters that has fallen over the course of twenty four hours. the study of about seventy kilometers per hour and then be bringing up the serpent about three meters high especially in a sea of japan side making and some like christmas here in sunny ca last minute stay for the hike took an eleven degrees in a bid to lead a limit or minus four scheme with so the forecast and thirty one in bangkok and manila staying warm in the tropics. a quick look here any year of dc this weekend it's one of pulling into the briti

eastern time on sunday. >>> no. the coming hours china could make the first controlled landing of a spacecraft on the moon since 1976. it is an historic mission, but the chinese may have some company. let's bring in al jazeera's science correspondent jacob ward to talk to us about the potential cosmic conflict here. he's joining us from san francisco. jacob, good to see pup firs see. why is china trying for a lunar expedition at this moment in time? >> that is really the question on everybody's mind. why is china doing this? they're 60 years behind the game. we put men on the among in the 1960's, 1970's. but in china's case it's a similar motivation that we had in mind. china's military and aerospace military has collapsed into one budget. anything that is coming out that have budget is going to have an application in both arenas. china is very interested in the research that can come off the moon. but i think this is a matter of nationalistic pride. china, which is very, very interested in its image abroad, very interested in asserting i

eastern. >>> in beijing, lots of pomp and ceremony as china's president welcomed the vice president, joe bidenpresident called biden an old friend, braised u.s./china relations. biden described the relationship between the two countries as full of promise. their public remarks gave no hint of the tensions right now between the u.s. and china concerning air space over the east china sea. however, senior officials traveling with the vice president say during private talks, biden told the president the u.s. does not recognize china's newly declared air defense zone, and the u.s. has, quote, deep concerns about the situation. >>> just six days, the house goes on vacation. and there's lots of work to do. so why are some members right now talking about aliens? we're talking about space aliens. we'll get to the bottom of this, get to the bottom of this when we get back. 1ñp ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] everyone deserves the gift of all day pain relief. this season, discover aleve. all day pain relief with just two pills. is heading out of town for the holidays. some members of the house are now choosing

china's move. by the enormous mushroom cloud was pictured hovering over the eastern europe had to r.t. dot com to learn what's behind the start. i'm curious to know who is one of the largest big client shareholders while you might be surprised to learn it's none other than the n.b.a. but how you move the timeline. brazil has not the american plane making giant boeing of to get its of negotiations over the supply of find the jets it's believed the news a washington spying on the country's president ruined a multi-billion dollar contract called the chicago based company those billions will now go to sweden sob one current affairs editor says u.s. companies are losing competitiveness because of the n.s.a. spying. once this one of these revelations came to the floor they damage the reputations of american companies the fact that the n.s.a. has been pushing for back doors and to date is into the data systems of a lot of american firms means that there's american firms can't be trusted either by domestic customers or certainly by overseas customers companies are going to continue to lean on

not so much the case in eastern asia, actually expecting a warmup through the next several days. high pressure is dominating much of chinakorea, over towards japan. we have a weak low, that's been tapering off and we are seeing showers in northern portions of hokkaido, but nothing too significant. the problem with this high, still looking at poor air quality, parts of beijing, shanghai. earlier we had photos with dramatic reduced visibility. at least temperatures, though, like i said, will be warming up through the coming days. that's the look at the world weather, here's your extended forecast. >>> that's "newsline" for this hour. from all of us here at nhk world, thanks for joining us. >> another freezing night for protesters in ukraine. the angry crowd continued their fight to bring president yanukovych down. he is now in china for a planned three-day visit. unearthed in mali, the bodies of 21 soldiers found outside the capital just days after the arrest of the man who led a military coup last year. of france'snd one most popular soft drinks has died. he was the driving force behind angina. gina -- or

china were encouraged by the weaker yen. their numbers nearly doubled. people from the five southwest easternountries are also finding it easier to visit. those from thailand doubled and more than 70% more from malaysia, so the figure came in just half a million shy of the annual target. the tourism commissioner says the upward trend is also boosted by promotion campaigns that have been run by both the public and private sector. >>> japan's three major megabanks are going to improve their cash services for overseas visitors. they will allow users to withdraw yen from automatic teller machines. officials decided to take the action on a government request. they hope to start the service in 2015. the other two megabanks are also planning to do so in the near future. foreign tourists have been complaining about the inconvenience. currently overseas credit card holders can only withdraw cash from a limited number of bank atms. >>> all right, on to the markets now. global investors continue to avoid active trading ahead of the policy meeting next tuesday. stock indexes are looking like this. we've

eastern bloc countries. i was also able to continue to '88 where all of the countries were represented, so, you know, in -- in '84, i mean, my competition was there. it was chinathe other sports, you know, the eastern bloc countries, they weren't there to represent themselves, so they missed out as well, and when you talk about olympic boycotts, i don't feel that olympic boycotts work. they hurt the wrong people, but when you talk about commerce and business, that works, so, you know, take it out on the sponsors, what the heck. >> greg louganis, thanks so much for your time. we appreciate it. >> my pleasure. >>> coming up in politics, you've heard the saying drinking the kool-aid, but an illusion to the jonestown mass suicide has one now white house insider in some hot water and in pop culture he's the man who said he discovered the wheel and built the eiffel tower out of metal and braun. i'll go one-on-one with anchor man ron burgundy. stick around because things are about toes calculate quickly "the lead." >> i'm sorry, sweetie, you're the best quickest. mine was earned orbiting the moon in 1971. afghanistan in 2009. on the u.s.s. saratoga in 1982. [ male an

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not necessarily china, but eurasia and eastern asia because those markets need russian supply much morean european markets. >> i would like to inject a word of caution into the whole discussion about russia and energy and be shifting patterns in the middle east as well as the shale gas because we have got ourselves now in the form of a euphoric state just thinking that the u.s. is pretty -- is completely independent of energy so we do not need to be in the middle east anymore on the one hand. to releaseeing able levers. that is not what dr. brzezinski said. that is not the case at all. russia actually sits on the world's largest potential deposits of shale gas. russia does not need to expand the because russia has enormous potential and conventional gas. russia also sits on the other big player, which is actually becoming increasingly important to the u.s. we shifted the game of the gas, but russia is still a major player in gas and oil, even if the u.s. for a certain period of time may outstrip about the russia and saudi arabia and production of gas and oil sometime in the next 10 year

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not necessarily china, but eurasia and eastern asia because those markets need russian supply much morethan european markets. >> i would like to inject a word of caution into the whole discussion about russia and energy and be shifting patterns in the middle east as well as the shale gas because we have got ourselves now in the form of a euphoric state just thinking that the u.s. is completely independent of energy so we do not need to be in the middle east anymore on the one hand. russia is being able to release levers. that is not what dr. brzezinski said. that is not the case at all. russia actually sits on the world's largest potential deposits of shale gas. russia does not need to expand the because russia has enormous potential and conventional gas. russia also sits on the other big player, which is actually becoming increasingly important to the u.s. we shifted the game of the gas, but russia is still a major player in gas and oil, even if the u.s. for a certain period of time may outstrip about the russia and saudi arabia and production of gas and oil sometime in the next 10 yea

china and is a? in that an enormous increase in wealth of the past decade? >> yes. we have had requests from there. also from easterne. dennis: tell us some of the places you're going. today trip to a soccer, japan, beijing, china. >> ya. we have troops tap japan where you will see tea ceremonies and temples. we have a trip that goes on to hong kong, china, the great wall, turkey, india, france. it -- it is an amazing an opportunity. with my partner we're able to get on the ground access to landmarks and historical things that money just can't buy. dennis: even if i were rich enough to afford this, and i have some death would be committed seems like i could buy a used private jet for 2 million are so. why not just to that? >> it's not just about to use private jet. there is an entire experience that goes along with it. all of the amazing access to the hotels, the dining. it is an inclusive trip. it is not just the plain. it's all about the experience. having it all planned out and done is not just the itinerary, but the people, the extra people along with making this an extraordinary journey free of. dennis: what ar