observers say their appearance at the north korean embassy in beijing one day after a visit by president hu jintaodences china's endorsement of kim jong-un. president hu referred to him as comrade. he said he believes north korea based on the wish of kim jong-il will make steadfast efforts under the new leadership to realize permanent peace on the korean peninsula. hu stressed the importance of a smooth power transition. he also noted the need for the country to avoid falling into uncertainty. the chinese leader quickly showed their support for the transition. they sent a telegram of condolence after the report of the death. south korea says it will allow private organizations and civilians to send coal don s tso north korea. a unification spokesperson says that the government has received a request from private groups. >> translator: to send condolences via fax or letter to north korea, once you make a request for the unification ministry for the contract. the ministry needs to process the request. the ministry will approve the application, unless there are extraordinary issues. >> chai said the

president hu jintao and others rushed to its embassy in beijing after they learned of kim jong-il's death. china's government has already expressed its support for the transfer of power from father to son in north korea. once this period of mourning is over, it is expected to establish a dialogue with kim jong-un and other leaders in pyongyang as quickly as possible. >> nhk world's keno komoto in beijing. >>> back here, the funeral is over. the world is anxious to know whether north korea will change the foreign policy or stay the course. what do you think will happen? >> the most important country for north korea is china. the chinese leaders have officially expressed condolences to the death of kim jong-il, and north korean leaders know that china is strongly committed to the stability of north korea. another important country is the united states. i think that north korea will come back to the negotiating table with the u.s. before too long. for two reasons -- one is that by doing so, north korea would be able to show that the government is functioning properly. and, also, the improved

accident site, according to past procedure, but didn't follow through with the plan because president hu jintao sent an order telling them to preserve the evidence. >>> the march 11th earthquake and tsunami continues to harm businesses in the affected areas in northeastern japan. the fishery catch through october in the worst hit regions was down 70% from the same period last year. a government survey compiled information from the seven months between april and october. the three prefectures of iwate, miyagi and fukushima are close to one of the world's largest fishing grounds in the pacific ocean but fishing ports in these prefectures were badly damaged by the earthquake and tsunami. the total catch landed by eight major ports during the survey period was a little over 64,000 tons. this is down 70% from a year ago. fishermen in fukushima prefecture have voluntarily stopped iffishing in waters nearby due to the nuclear power plant accident. >>> workers up and down the coast are still struggling to remove millions of tons of debris. the government's goal is to transfer 22 million tons of waste f

japanese prime minister yoshihiko noda and the chinese president hu jintao met. in beijing. noda said kim jong il's death should not have a negative impact on the korean peninsula. he said the role of china is important as the north's strongest ally and as the chair of the six-party talks. hu said not only china and japan, but also the rest of the world wished for peace and stability on the peninsula. he said china will work to restart nuclear talks and bring an end to the north's nuclear program through dialogue and cooperation. noda already met with chinese premier wen jiabao and spoke about this. >>> we have two segments offering two unique perspectives on the fallout from the earthquake and tsunami. "nuclear watch" brings you insight and information on the impact of the fukushima daiichi crisis. and the road ahead examines japan's efforts to recover and rebuild. don't miss "nuclear watch" and t"the road ahead" on "newsline." >>> hiro morita is up next with sports. >>> hello, sports fans and welcome to the last sports report for 2011. the bidding among major league baseba

primm minister steven harper had had a face-to-face with chinese hu jintao and afterwards to the press these were his words. the decision by the united states, this does underscore the necessity of canada making sure we are able to access markets for our energy products. it's pretty straightforward. we stand adjourned. thank you. >> [inaudible conversations] ..

xi is widely expected to succeed president hu jintao. the vietnamese leaders are believed to have asked xi not to escalate military activities in the south na sea. china wants to ease concerns over asian nations over his territorial claims by resuming friendly relations with vietnam. >>> cambodians caught up in disputes can now turn to a civil code. the khmer rouge abolished the legal system in the 1970s. a ceremony in phnom penh to inaugurate the new laws. masafumi kuroki said itill help boost economic development. cambodian lawmakers established a new constitution in 1993 but without a criminal or civil code. legal experts have been working on a new legal system supported by industrialized nations and international organizations. french lawyers helped draft a criminal code, which came into effect in 2009. japan has sent legal experts to cambodia over the past 12 years. they've helped draw up the civil code and dratrain lawyers. >>> new evidence has emerged which shows japanese optical equipment maker olympus asked banks to conceal atte

accident site according to past procedure, but didn't follow through with the plan, because president hu jintaot an order telling them to preserve the evidence. >>> well china has become the fastest-growing auto market in the world. and today, you see a lot more cars than what you used to see or bicycles. but here's a warning from nhk world's yoeshihikoyoshihiko. >> reporter: a bicycle, but the pedals are not moving. it cannot be a scooter. where's the muffler? these are lifted bikes powered by batteries. and an increasingly common site in beijing. this office worker recently made the switch to two wheels. she used to go to work on a crowded subway and bus, a one-hour journey. on her e-bike, the commute now takes less than 30 minutes. when she comes home. she takes out the batteries and plug them into a wall socket just like a cell phone. her bike cost over $700, that's ten times more than a conventional bike. but she's not complaining. >> translator: the e-bike is very fast and convenient and eco-friendly, too. i can also save gas money. >> the increasing number of cars on the road has led to

accident site, according to past procedure, but didn't follow through with the plan because president hu jintao sent an order telling them to preserve the evidence. >>> the march 11th earthquake and tsunami continues to harm businesses in the affected areas in northeastern japan. the fishery catch through october in the worst hit regions was down 70% from the same period last year. a government survey compiled information from the seven months between april and october. the three prefectures of iwate, miyagi and fukushima arelose to one of the world's largest fishing grounds in the pacific ocean but fishing ports in these prefectures were badly damaged by the earthquake and tsunami. the total catch landed by eight major ports during the survey period was a little over 64,000 tons. this is down 70% from a year ago. fishermen in fukushima prefecture have voluntarily stopped iffishing in waters nearby due to the nuclear power plant accident. >>> workers up and down the coast are still struggling to remove millions of tons of debris. the government's goal is to transfer 22 million tons of waste fro

the top ranking diplomat from the hu jintao administration has said that this visit is very important marks sixty years of diplomatic ties between china and pakistan and he's hoping that this trip will bring that relationship to a new level to an all time high the leaders from both the countries talk about security regions in the area and obviously all of this comes just one month after the nato military strike on a pockets than afghan checkpoint that actually killed twenty four pakistani soldiers all relations between pakistan and the united states as a result of that incident or i don't know all time low so many analysts are saying that this meeting could be a sign that pakistan is actually shifting towards depending more on china as opposed to the united states beijing express their solidarity with pakistan after that incident and actually a pakistani diplomats said that china has backed all of our efforts referring to that nato air strike both china and pakistan have a lot of mutual concerns they they have a very strategic partnership one of their major focuses on their mutual nei

we know hu jintao has oppression has been meeting with prime minister harper about the idea of having oil from alberta shipped not here in the united states, but instead transited to china to chinese refineries. and what china seeks here is to reduce its cost of energy. we compete with china. it is going to impact jobs in the united states if energy costs go down in china as the l. and if energy costs go up in the united states. so, we have an opportunity. the united states has this opportunity if you read the financial press a eating a natural exporter if we are able to access. north america can do this with we can access the oil sands from alberta if we go forward with the keystone pipeline. for the first time in 60 years, our country would have the opportunity to be independent of the current circumstances, where we depend upon the opec cartel, where we shift our dollars, our petrodollars into that market. and we should ask ourselves at this point in time, are we better served recirculating those dollars, sending those to an ally, where 80% of what we spend in canada according to e

he called president hu jintao. am i reading too much into this, that this mark a change in global, international relations? is this like the beginning of a new era? would any of you want to pick this up, hans? >> yeah, i think we are already in a new era. and just to go back to a slow down in china and the importance of that. you shouldn't think lightly about the impact of slow down in china. not so much because domestic consequences but because of the consequences on the rest of the world. we are of the view the world no longer depends on use consumer. the world depends on the chinese investor. and what gdp slows down a couple percentage points then investors will slow down much more that has enormous consequences for the rest of the world and the high income countries. so in that sense, the economic importance of china is already very, very significant. but then to go to your question of china and europe, i think there are three reasons for china to support europe. first of all, they are in this big economic play

or are we better served foreclosing adoption, allowing china and canada to cement the deal that hu jintaos working on that would allow those resources to go on instead to china and continue to be dependent on sending our petrodollars into saudi arabia and into venezuela into other states that are either unreliable or hostile to the united states. we can continue with our trade imbalance with respect to the opec cartel, or we can have our dollars staying at home, not being shipped to saudi arabia and venezuela from the standpoint of american jobs, we can create those jobs here, or we can create those jobs in china. that is their decision. right now the president is making a decision to lay off americans. 60 havarti been laid off as a result of this decision and instead have those jobs go to china. you can have american jobs at the u.s. government and state governments will assist. there is a reason why unemployment is under 4% in north dakota. and that is because of the booming energy sector there. that is because the administration has yet to find a way to shut that down. but not only doe

and hu jintao says, well, what keeps me awake is creating 25 million new jobs a year for the people of china. and, of course, the good gentleman, he flipped the question and said, how about you, president bush? what keeps you awake at night? can you guess -- you remember eight years of president bush. what do you think he said? [inaudible conversations] >> saving the world, cutting taxes. no, what was he -- what's -- there's something else. spread of democracy. but what kept him awake at night? [inaudible conversations] >> the texas rangers. >> terrorism, right? terrorism is what kept him awake after that bad news that he got while he was reading to those kindergarteners if you ever saw that michael moore movie. it was quite a scene. anyway, but here's the point then, is are we really focused, not just saying we're focused about jobs, but are we focused about creating jobs now in the kind of economy that we're in, in a global economy where countries like china we won't embrace an awful lot of what china is, but what we can embrace is really an aggressive desire to generate economic act

hey, i just want to say happy birthday to chinese president hu jintao.turned 69 years old today. obama got him this really beautiful clock. take a look at this. isn't that nice? >> steve: aww. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: beautiful. beautiful present -- yeah, it's really nice. here's an election update. in a new interview, new jersey governor, chris christie -- we love chris christie -- he said -- he advised mitt romney to be edgier and bolder. or, as romney put it, "good bye black socks, hello blue socks! [ laughter ] oh yeah. they don't match." some sports news -- the ncaa announced that ohio state will be banned from bowl games for a year because of a bribery scandal involving players. then penn state was like, "wait, but we're still okay? [ laughter ] okay, i guess." hey, listen to this -- i heard that jay-z and kanye west were paid $3 million each to perform at a sweet 16 party in dubai. wow, i don't want to brag but when i was 16, i had my birthday at the ground round. [ laughter ] some celebrity news, this week, chaz bono announced that he split up but

we know hu jintao's had a meeting with prime minister harper about the idea of having the oil from albertatransited to china, to chinese refineries and what china seeks here is to reduce its cost of energy. we compete with china. it is going to impact jobs in the united states if energy costs go down in china as a result, and if energy costs go up in the united states. so, we have an opportunity. the united states has this opportunity, if you read the financial press, of being a net fuel exporter if we are able to access north america can do this if we can access the oil sands from alberta, if we go forward with the keystone pipeline for the first time in 60 years. our country would have the opportunity to be independent of the current circumstances, where we depend upon the opec cartel, where we shift our dollars, our petro dollars into that market, and we should ask ourselves i think at this point in time, are we better served recirculating those dollars, sending money to an ally, canada, where 80% of what we spend in canada according to a is our spend back here in the united states or a

the letter was from hu jintao, china's president. venezuela's attempts to irk washington are not surprising, but don't expect too many countries to actually follow his lead. what the celac sum has really highlighted is how divided latin america is. haiti and honduras have very little in common with argentina and brazil. venezuela and cuba have a completely different set of foreign policy goals from that was, say, mexico and colombia. there is little sense of a shared political or economic agenda. and in any case, there already exists a number of regional groups. brazil heads up the union of south american nations. then there's the oas or the organization of american states, but that's led by washington, and it excludes cuba. what struck me as odd, though, is why the leaders of strong emerging markets like brazil and mexico are giving mr. chavez a platform to peddle his failed ideas, ideas no one is following. remember, this is a man who has somehow managed to lead his oil-rich down 30% inflation, a contracting economy, and mass pover

hey, i just want to say happy birthday to chinese president hu jintao.>> steve: aww. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: beautiful. beautiful present -- yeah, it's really nice. here's an election update. in a new interview, new jersey governor, chris christie -- we love chris christie -- he said -- he advised mitt romney to be edgier and bolder. or, as romney put it, "good bye black socks, hello blue socks! [ laughter ] oh yeah. they don't match." some sports news -- the ncaa announced that ohio state will be banned from bowl games for a year because of a bribery scandal involving players. then penn state was like, "wait, but we're still okay? [ laughter ] okay, i guess." hey, listen to this -- i heard that jay-z and kanye west were paid $3 million each to perform at a sweet 16 party in dubai. wow, i don't want to brag but when i was 16, i had my birthday at the ground round. [ laughter ] some celebrity news, this week, chaz bono announced that he split up but his long-time girlfriend after six years together. [ audience aws ] yeah. it's the classic case of girl meet

he called president hu jintao. and my reading too much into this? does this market change -- marked a change in global international relations? is this the beginning of a new era? would any of you want to pick this up? hans? >> i think we are already in a new era. to go back to the slowdown in china, you should not think lightly about the impact of a slowdown in china. it is not so much because of the domestic health of countries but because of the effect on the rest of the world. the role depends on the chinese investor. when gdp slows down a couple percentage points, that investment will slow down more. it has enormous consequences for the rest of the world and a high income countries. economic importance of china is already very significant. to your question on china and europe, there are three reasons for china to support europe. first of all, they are a big economic player. they will help to prevent a collapse of the rule of the economy. if that is needed to prevent the collapse of europe, that is one reason for them to help. they want a broade

he called president hu jintao. am i reading too much into this? does this mark a change in global and international relations? is this like the beginning of a new era? would any of you want to pick this up? >> i think we are already. just to go back to the slowdown in china and the importance of that you shouldn't think lightly about the slowdown in china not so much because of the domestic consequences but because of the consequences on the rest of the world. the world no longer depends on the u.s. consumer. the difference of a chinese investor and when it gdp slows down a couple percentage points investments will slow down much more and have enormous consequences. so in that sense, the economic importance of china is already very significant. but then to go to your question of china and europe i think there are three reasons for china to support your up. first of all they are a big economic player and they will help to prevent the collapse of the world economy. so if that is needed to prevent the collapse of europe that is one reason for them to

one of jennifer's story which is a george bush story in his biography he talked about being with hu jintao the president of china and they are talking about their situations in life and pierce, colleagues, just kind of hanging out and chilling so president bush is a kind of conversation starter says? he says what keeps me awake is creating 25 million jobs a year for people of china. and of course the good gentleman he flicked the question and said president bush, what keeps you awake at night? you remember eight years of president bush, would you think he said? >> [inaudible] saving the world, cutting taxes? no, something else. spread of democracy. but what kept him awake at night? terrorism is what kept him awake after the bad news he got while he was reading to those kindergartners if you ever saw that movie it was quite a scene. but here's the point then. it's are we really focused not just saying we are focused about jobs, but all we focused about creating jobs now in the kind of economy they were in in a global economy where countries like china, and we won't increase in a lot of what

the prime minister metle with hu jintao of china and the deal they are talking about striking is one that accrues to the benefit of china to the expense of the united states. if this energy does not transit the united states and go to refineries here, it will go to china and it will fuel their manufacturing sector. that is what we are concerned about. we are concerned about throwing away this opportunity. and i don't know about you, but it sure bothers me to see china playing in our hemisphere. and the administration does not seem to care. americans have been told about the importance of energy independence. we have been on the hook, my friends, to middle east producers for decades now. and we are sending billions every year to that cartel. and these countries in that cartel are unstable. and they all included to control prices. and we have a chance instead to get this oil from our allies, and we are being told by this administration and the other side of the aisle that despite the jobs that this would create, that this is going to be stopped. well, today we have a chance to develop

we know that president hu jintao for a spate -- has paid his respects at the north korean embassy atesterday. and one can imagine that china may be concerned enough to be reaching out in other ways to revive economic support. i'm very much struck by the openness of doubt in chinese commentary about the sustainability of north korea. that tells me that affect -- that the chinese government must be very aware and concerned about sustainability. i think the national response for this government in china, given its focus on regional stability, is going to be to try to do what it can in order to provide near-term support for sustaining north korea until there is a stable political transition, if that is possible. >> great. victor, how about japan? japan is probably doing these -- viewing these changes with quite a bit of trepidation. how should the japanese government approach to change? >> first, i would agree that they are viewing this with a great deal of trepidation. as we all know, for japan, north korea is an existential threat, the biggest threat possibly to a japanese national sec

we know that president hu jintao paid his respects to the north korean embassy in beijing, you know,esterday already and one could imagine that china could be concerned out to be reaching out in other ways to provide economic support. i'm very much struck by the openness of doubt in chinese analyst commentary about the sustainability of north korea. and so that must tell me the chinese government is very aware or concerned about sustainability at this critical time. and i believe that the natural response for this government in china, given its focus on regional stability, is going to be to try to do what it can in order to provide near-term support for sustaining north korea until there's a stable political transition, if that is possible. >> great. victor, how about japan? japan is probably viewing changes with quite a bit of trepidation. and how do you think the japanese government should approach the leadership change in north korea? >> well, i mean, i think first i would agree that they're viewing this with a great deal of trepidation. as we all know for japan, i mean, north kor

we know that president hu jintao has paid his respects at the north korean embassy at beijing yesterdayand one can imagine that china may be concerned enough to be reaching out in other ways to revive economic support. i'm very much struck by the openness of doubt in chinese analysts' commentary about the sustainability of north korea. that tells me that the chinese government must be very aware and concerned about sustainability. i think the national response for this government in china, given its focus on regional stability, is going to be to try to do what it can in order to provide near-term support for sustaining north korea until there is a stable political transition, if that is possible. >> great. victor, how about japan? japan is probably viewing these changes with quite a bit of trepidation. how should the japanese government approach change? >> first, i would agree that they are viewing this with a great deal of trepidation. as we all know, for japan, north korea is an existential threat, the biggest threat possibly to japanese national security. in that sense, i think they'