former dpj secretary general ichiro ozawa is to be indicted over a political funding scandal and there is a demand that he testify before the diet over the issue. but kan is leaving it up to ozawa to make the decision. the prime minister appears to be wary of the powerful politician. ozawa recently challenged kan for the leadership of the ruling democratic party. he still has the biggest faction in the dpj. >> then what could happen to kan's administration from here? >> well, the dpj led coalition government does not have a majority so it cannot pass any bills in the upper house without help of the opposition parties. and next march is the deadline for fiscal 2011 budget bills to be enacted. if kan cannot get the wheels of government turning, he could be forced to resign or hold an election. to avoid that the prime minister is trying to make a partial coalition with one of the parties, new komeito. but the party says its help all depends on kan's popularity. in other words, if kan remains unpopular, his government will be cornered. >> if popularity is the key to kan's survival, how can

major league baseball ichiro suzuki of the seattle mariners have the most hits for an entire season. he went 2 for 5 in the season ending game. against the athletics on sunday, he had a double in the fifth and a hit to center in the eighth with 214 total hits for the season, ichiro earned a seventh season hit title. this puts him in a three-way tie with pete rose an ty cobb. the final round of the japan women's open, one of the country's major golf tournaments, took place on sunday. ai miyazato was aiming for a come from behind victory. she moved up from tenth to fourth place over the first three rounds. but the title went to another miyazato who usually only plays on the u.s. tour. she made her lpga debut last year. things were looking good for her last year, but she fell from first to sixth place on the final day. this time around she improved her score by two strokes on the front nine. here's a second shot on the par 4 15th. if she sinks the putt, it's a birdie. just taking care of business for three birdies in a row. miyazato held on as leader over four days for her first victory

settled all outstanding bilateral issues relating to russia's assertion to the double ichiro and code but edward told me last week in the studio that that wasn't exactly the case so what's your impression where are we actually my impression is that we have. with us which are of concern to our partners or years of negotiations. probably mr on is of the right if you think symmetry we have to discuss together with united states and. trading partners into the world within the. framework so we have to do it. about. virtual disk with us we think it was well russia has already signed by letter agreement with the united states and back in two thousand and six yet if i'm not mistaken so what has changed since when you have to sign this well come up with another agree what we did with us in two thousand and six in hanoi we agreed on terms of market access to russian. market of goods and services but we have not discussed the so-called systemic commitments be sure russia has to undertake a course of its accession its commitments. in respect of how russia implement troops and most was negotiated