hands up for kelso parliament has approved the state secrets law by a vote of one hundred today too despite fierce protests from the and opposition parties against the bill. the long grass the government more authority to implement harsher penalties for those who leak sensitive secrets he won't force prison terms of up to two years for the leaking of sensitive information on issues ranging from defence diplomacy counterintelligence and counterterrorism. the lower house approved the bill last week. primus is as obvious as the law will protect national security and the suede u s concerns all the risk of hearing strategically sensitive information with toby a lot has met strong opposition from politicians and critics were the law could be used to cover a government abuses and to protect civil liberties. cctv correspondent nst machine that takes a look at how the japanese people are reacting to the debate and to the secrecy be . the japanese once again surrounded the diet building and the more mocking number fifty in protest against a state secret protection bill a bill that enables it to minis

now i will turn to the audience we have our ambassadoambassado rs our focused here at the addict kelso'sre the ambassador would say by the evil sova and wife. [laughter] >> i will start with the first that i saw. please identify yourself in to keep it brief. >> project on transition for democracies, the senator in addition to the opposition you met with the business leaders called both sides is in kiev may be met with more than any other senior leader. is there a future in europe for russia? what was your impression? >> i probably should have mentioned that. the berries to the degree that they have been affected. one who had an empire based on chocolate and that has sent cutoff by putin a and the russians i got the impression that they are very smart ned and they are watching carefully the flow of events and there are guarded remarks and not calling for a change of government are even specifically a change in government policy. so they will weather favor of course, of events and on the one hand they would view economic reform as a threat to the virtual monopoly that

earlier this fall arguing at times of high unemployment particularly when some of that unemployment is kelso buying into disengagement they were sent argument that monetary policy should be more aggressive in your announcing that you will do less rather than more. can you talk about why you were not erring on the side of --. >> again we are not doing less. we will see how accommodation shapes up. but while we are slowing asset purchases a bit again we expect a total balance sheet to be quite large and maintained at a large level for a long time. i expect to keep rates low for a long time and provide the regular accommodation to the economy. i agree with your observation and the observation of the paper that you cited that there is a case for being particularly aggressive and i think we have been aggressive, to try to keep the economy growing and we are seeing progress in the labor market. i would -- the idea that we are not providing accommodation to the economy. >> mr. chairman. thank you. wyatt andrews at cbs. given the millions of dollars at the fed is put into the economy over the years