the news agency in mauritania says a man claimed responsibility of the report says the man claimed the attacks were the retaliation for killing of an islamist commander in mali. it says he's threatening more attacks. >>> local government leaders in japan are criticizing a nuclear research agency for being slow to report an accident. spokespersons for the government affiliated japan atomic energy association waited more than a day to report that four workers had suffered internal exposure. the accident happened on thursday morning. the researchers were firing a beam over gold to generate elementary particles. the device malfunctioned and the output of the beam rose 400 fold. the high temperatures vaporized the gold generating radiation. agency spokespersons say the worker the suffered internal exposure. they believe there's no risk to their health. workers have sealed off the building. they say no radioactive substances have leaked from the compound. and that radiation levels at monitoring posts have not changed. however, officials with ibaraki prefecture say their data show that radiat

the news agency in mauritania reports a man issued a statement claiming responsibility. the report says the man claimed the attacks were retaliation for killing of an islamist leader. and it says he's threatening more attacks. >>> japanese officials will take part in free trade talks for the first time. they'll have limited information. government officials from 11 asia pacific countries wrapped up their latest tpp talks in peru. they agreed to meet again in malaysia from july 15th through 25th. this means that japanese officials will only be able to take part for the last three days. still, negotiators from other countries say they're glad the japanese will be involved. >> we're aware that japan would like to take part in the july round and we believe that that can be arranged. >> japanese negotiators will also have to work with limited information. they can't access documents on past negotiations before they take part in the talks. japanese leaders plan to send officials to participating countries to gather information. >> japan's prime minister shinzo abe is trying to

minerals that would disappear from the headlines and we would stop worrying about what's going on in mauritania or qatar or something like this? >> um, i think that it's going to -- the shale gas revolution, the fracking, the increase in energy supplies in the u.s., it's absolutely going to change american foreign policy. we will be less dependent on oil from the middle east. my concern is that china today gets 70% of its energy supplies from the middle east, india about the same and europe as well. and the global economy's so interlinked that even if the u.s. isn't dependent on middle eastern oil, i feel like instability in the region will hurt the chinese economy and the european economy. so, you know, i think we should step back, do less, not engage in ground invasions, but i don't think we can sort of ig never the middle east. -- ignore the middle east. turbulence will impact the worldwide debt crisis, and if there's economic problems in europe, we have economic problems here. sure. [laughter] >> going back -- >> sorry. >> can you move it? >> that's all right. going back to the -- >> thank