just like kyoto, countries will not comply. here at home the president needs to -- means to force the united states to reduce greenhouse gas gases through 2025. primarily through what he calls his power plan, which is likely to get struck by the courts and its implementation has already been blocked by the united states supreme court. so we've got a situation where we have 27 countries that have filed lawsuits against the plan and we actually had someone from bother the chamber of commerce -- national chamber of commerce and the sierra club before our committee just a few weeks ago, and they're saying, well, there's no way in the world that you can have this kind of a reduction. so it's dead in the water anyway. i mean, 40% -- it's going to go business as usual. only 15% could have an effect from the power plant -- the power plan, and then the rest of them, 45%, are not only in the middle of t and besides that, the supreme court has now said that they -- until all the litigation is cleared up that nothing is going to happen. an

over towards kyoto, a lot of people go there during the holidays. 31 for the high. feeling very summer like. even towards tokyo, 25 degrees on sunday into monday as well. definitely good day to get out and about. high pressure coming in from the west bringing the clearer skies. also transporting some cooler air down towards the south. bringing some thunderstorms across parts of the philippines. you'll be looking at stormsongo region. there's some good news. bangkok you'll see a high of 36 with the storms on your friday. talking about some flooding or some storms, that is across much of the central u.s. we have been seeing these storms back on tuesday. wednesday now into thursday along the eastern seaboards. this was what we have seen in gulf port, mississippi. one of the areas got hit quite hard by hurricane katrina in 2005. you can see there a lot of people having to be rescued with the latest storm systems that pull through causing some severe flooding. about 20 to 30 people picked up by boat and truck there. as we go ahead through your friday, things will be star

rain through kyoto as we go through thursday. seoul and beijing looking at sunny skies. look at these temperatures, looking at highs in the 20s for friday. so we're seeing temperatures above average as we go into the weekend. hope you have a good day wherever you are. here's your extended outlook. >>> we'll have a report from northeastern japan onq?q?q?q?q?? >> things for joining us. it is 1:00 p.m. in paris. you are watching "france 24 come live from paris. our headlines this wednesday. a new round of peace talks on syria is starting in geneva to try to end five years of fighting. the syrian government is holding parliamentary elections, a vote not recognized by the u.s.

there are lots of less-known tourist spots and independently operated restaurants in kyoto. it would be ideal if we could add information about them on our japanese map. >> reporter: he visited tokyo for firsthand research and to encourage businesses to sign up. many streets there are lined with small restaurants and souvenir shops, but only a few of them appear on the map. takahashi asked chinese visitors what they thought about the service. >> translator: it now offers a japanese map. were you aware of that? >> translator: so. i use google. >> translator: it would be more useful if it included information about restaurants and public toilets. >> reporter: he visited a store that has seen a huge increase in the number of chinese customers. the manager hopes that baidu's mapping service will help them attract even more. >> translator: the map to me increase the number who visit the store on purpose rather than just dropping by. >> reporter: he envisions another goal as well. >> translator: i am hoping the map will bring about new encounters bween jan and china. >> reporter:

it said if you come back from the kyoto treaty and it does one of two things, we will vote against it. that's 95%, 95 members. at that time there were five people absent that day. therethe two things they had we, number one, economic hardship on the united states of america. and, number two, if you come back with a treaty that doesn't treat the developing countries the same as developed countries -- in other words, if we have to do something in the united states that china doesn't have to do, that india doesn't have to do, that mexico doesn't have to do, then we'll vote against it. then of course they came back with something that -l violated both of those, so there was never any possibility that it was going to pass. and it didn't. we took up four cap and trade bills in the following 13 years. now this past year a bipartisan majority in both the senate and the house spoke again when we passed two resolutions of disapproval formally rejecting president obama's carbon regulations. there's a little thing a lot of people don't know about and that is the c.r.a., congressional review act.

they mostly want to tokyo and kyoto.'re even worries of shortages in the hotel capacity going into 2020 olympics. definitely a huge boost there for the economy. scarlet: that has repercussions for the company that provides those services. hotels, look at the restaurants, leisure index, you can see the japanese stocks have thany outperformed by more 100 percentage points since 2011. the stronger yen threatens that. and japan planning to raise its consumption tax as well next year. alix: at some point, it will have to break. to or something, we'll have see the boj do something because they need the growth. scarlet: new data out today shows lung growth is hitting a plateau despite unprecedented stimulants from the central bank. what it will take to get the euro area lending once again, we will find out next. ♪ mark: let's get to first word news. president obama at arts with senators -at odds with other senators in his party about saudi arabia. it would allow saudi arabia to role innsible for any the september 11 attacks. th

and we know this for two reasons, one which is still today in japan, outside kyoto, they have small family-run bakeries that are making fortune cookies by hand. but they're not yellow, they're not small. they're, like, this kind of big, brown, very nutty flavored kind of fortune cookie. and they don't do them with machines. it's very much an artisan craft. so that's one. and two, there is a drawing from the late 1800s that a japanese researcher dug up through many, many, many hours of sifting through the archives in japan, and it shows a man in a kimono, you know, back then, in an etched kind of drawing, making fortune cookies. and together, we know that. and so what happened is that the japanese immigrants came to america around the turn of the 20th century, and they brought... you know, some of them made, you know, cookies and whatnot for a living. and so they brought some of that over with them. and it's been fascinating, because it started out sort of very localized, very californian, kind of like, you know, a very regional thing. but at a certain point it became a big thing. and we were a

during a press conference on the kyoto agreement greenpeace advocates protest against america. they claim it's not reducing green house emissions fast enou enough. >> the united states which is a big part of the cause of the accident is viewed by many. we viewed ourselves as trying to actually find solutions but they weren't hearing that. >> one protestor takes matters into her own hands. throwing a pie at the u.s. undersecretary for global affairs. >> had to make an immediate decision whether to be outraged or take it lightly and this incident occurred the day before american thanksgiving. i said standing there you would have thought that on the day before thanksgiving they could have picked a pumpkin pie. >> that's standard stuff and you can almost get away with that because a pie on the face is something people do for fun. >> the press conference is suspended and he is supplied with security and a new suit. >> the next day i opened the conference by saying now look if there's any more pie throwers out there and i pointed to my colleague next to me. >> it seems they have all

keep an eye on bank of kyoto. guy: caroline, thank you very much indeed.staying with japan, the boj tries to tame that if i in jan as foreign investors lose faith. ♪ guy: will go back. we are 30 minutes into the trading day. let's see how things are shaping up. extended over the last 10 minutes -- stocks are going down by around one half of 1%. the energy sector in trouble -- a mixed picture with the pressure. financials are the place where market seems to be seeking safety. let's find out which stocks of you to focus on. caroline: thanks. you hinted at a few -- i am focusing on one software company with the laggards and leaders of the stoxx 600. we are off by three percentage points at the moment, being cut by an underperforming credit suisse. a lot of volatility in the market, stocks being moved, and we are seeing porsche being moved by a call to go underway. s.a.p. off, and other german companies also on the down. the numbers were living up to expectations. the americas region in particular was where they had been finding some of their deals later than

they have my father's unit the whole way going to kyoto. >> that's awesome. >> i cannot wait.at museum. >> if any viewers or listeners out there were on the uss james c. owens in the '60s, please reach out. i'm sure he would love to reconnect. general motors march results are out. let's go back to phil lebeau. >> general motors like ford coming in less than expected for march sales. increase of 0.9% for march. the edmonds.com was an increase of 1.8% from general motors. so gm and ford coming in shy of expectations. it sets up the question of whether or not we see the sales pace which we will find out late their afternoon for the month of march, whether it will be substantially higher than 17 million. gm says it expects the monthly sales pace to be 17.1 million. i mentioned earlier that many analysts say they expect it to be 17.2, 17.3. let's see if it's closer to 17. >> all right. phil lebeau on gm. ford and gm maybe just a bit disappointing. this will bring out the we're doomed voices. >> i know. i have to go back to your tweet. look, jobs are okay. cars are a little short. s

accomplishment it was just this idea afterwards the fact that japan got recruited into being part of kyoto and eventually putting forward about half a billion dollars, i think, ultimately is what they were in for. i think the south koreans put in about a billion or so towards the program. but how do you recollect the view from tokyo at the time especially in this context of what was in and what was outside of the deal. >> i'm out of government so i did not have insider information. my observation is from the outside. tokyo's condition was to address the reduction by the framework of the deal. i think that reminds me of the prioritization within the japanese government on dealing with north korea. and so the threats, nuclear threats posed by north korea at that time was not really immine imminent. there was no proof of credible capability of north korea and there's no sense of urgency on the side of japan. reduction issue, that was a comment by the government at that time to deal with. the way the japanese government at that time and also i would like remind that the japanese government was

but actually tokyo's condition for putting the money into the kyoto was to address the abduction by the framework of the deal. i think that reminds me of the prioritization within the japanese government on dealing with north korea. and so, the threats, nuclear threats posed by north korea at that time was not really imminent. there was no proof of credible capability of north korea and there's no sense of urgency on the side of japan. but on the abduction issue, i think there was commitment by the government at that time to deal with. so i think when the japanese government at that -- also, i would like to remind that the japanese government, ldp, was very fragile politically at that time so i think we need to sort of mobilize various issues and then they're now, of course, abduction issue is so much of consensus among the public. so i think -- so it's domestic political context prevented the japanese government from sort of dealing with the nuclear no plif ration as the top priority. that's one thing. may i ask one question to professor gallucci? >> sure. >> so when you -- in your ana